Handicraft Guild, 89-91 10th Street South, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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| Address: | 89 10th Street S |
| Neighborhood/s: | Downtown West, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| City/locality- State/province |
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| County- State/province: |
Hennepin County, Minnesota |
| State/province: | Minnesota |
| Country: | United States |
| Year built: | 1907 |
| Primary Style: | Georgian |
| Additions: | 1004 Marquette Avenue South in 1914 |
| Historic Function: | School |
| Current Function: | Business |
| Architect or source of design: | William Channing Whitney |
| Builder: | H.N. Leighton |
| Material of Exterior Wall Covering: | Brick |
| Building Permit Number: | A12663 |
| First Owner: | Handicraft Guild |
| Notes: | Handicraft Guild Addition(1914)
1004 Marquette |
The Handicraft Guild came into existence in 1904 to meet a pressing need for craft classes
especially suited to requirements for training teachers of the public schools in handicrafts.
There was also a recognized want of such training by others and there was no salesroom for artistic
craft products nor any means of bringing the work of the local craftsmen to the notice of the buying public.
The Handicraft Guild School of Design, Handicraft and Normal Art, is established upon a basis of intimate relation between theory and practice, and also for the advancement of industrial art interests. The purpose of the school is to give authoritative instruction in design and its solution in terms of materials; also to furnish complete training for students desirous of becoming Craftsmen, Designers and Teachers.
In July 1905 the guild was less than a year old, but its directors announced that they would begin work to acquire yet another new facility. In February 1906, the officers announced the selection of a site and plans to build a permanent home for the guild. Minneapolis philanthropist Joseph R. Kingman provided the capital for the construction of the building. a local architect of national reputation, William Channing Whitney, agreed to design the multifunction facility.
By November 1907 a jubilant group of officers and staff moved into the guild's new home at 89 S. 10th Street, which was equipped to meet the needs not only of the guild, but those of others in the art community, local craftsworkers, educators, shopkeepers, and charitable groups as well.
The three-story brick and stone Georgian revival structure at 89 S. 10th Street offered precisely what the Minneapolis art community had sought for more than a decade. The large auditorium could accommodate lectures, general assemblies, exhibitions, and concerts. The long sales/display room featured a fireplace decorated with guild tiles.
There was a luncheon and tea room, a book shop, work shops, classrooms, stock rooms for supplies, and studios for craftsworkers, designers, and painters, as well as shops and offices for interior designers.
The guild facility also offered studio space to artists, designers, and craftspeople working in various media, further strengthening its relationship to the art community. Over the years those spaces were occupied by Elizabeth Norris, Susan Christian, bookbinders Winifred Cole and Edith Griffith, leather workers Nelbert Murphy and Margaret Sheardown, photographers Margaret Sheridan and Gertrude E. Mann, rare book dealer Edmund D. Brooks, the decorating studio of Gustav F. Weber, portraitist Hildur Peterson-Frey, jeweler Ida Pell Conklin and painter Elisabeth Chant.
The last Saturday of the month served as a day to informally visit studios and join a gathering in the guild tea room. More than fifty years later, the guild building remained a center of activity for local craftsworkers. Commerical artists, a violin maker, fashion designers, and cabinetmakers had successful showrooms and workshops in the guild building as late as 1973.
They were drawn there, as fashion designer Agnes Reed said, because it felt like home.
In 2015 a community of artists who are the Handicraft Guild Collective live and work in the Handicraft Guild building. Dahl Violin and Thomson Drum have businesses there. The shops on 10th street and Marquette have a rich diversity of businesses. Artists, tailors, a wig shop, a restaurant, a t-shirt printing shop, an art gallery are all there!
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Founding Principles
"The Guild came into existence last fall [1904] to meet a pressing need for craft classes especially suited to requirements
for training teachers of the public schools in handicrafts. There was also a recognized want of such training by others
and there was no salesroom for artistic craft products nor any means of bringing the work of the local craftsmen to the
notice of the buying public."[2] "The Handicraft Guild School of Design, Handicraft
and Normal Art, is established upon a basis of intimate relation between theory and practice, and also for the advancement
of industrial art interest. The purpose of the school is to give authoritative instruction in design and its solution
in terms of materials; also to furnish complete training for students desirious of becoming Craftsmen, Designers and
Teachers." [3]
Officers
Mary Emma Roberts
Florence Wales
Mary Linton Bookwalter
Florence D. Willets
Founding Patrons
Miss Mary Moulton Cheney
Mrs. W.H. Dunwoody (Catherine L. Patten)
Mrs. C.A. Bovey (Caroline Hannah Brooks)
Mrs. E.J. Phelps (Louise Ann Richardson)
*Mr. Phelps was a business partner of John Scott Bradstreet
Mrs. J.C. Hall (Clarisa Jane)
Mrs. Thomas S. Roberts (Jane Cleveland)
Mrs. Perry Harrison (Miriam Thomas)
Mrs. George H. Christian (Lenora Hall)
Key Figures
Ernest Batchelder
Grant Wood
Margaret Kelly Cable
Mary Moulton Cheney
Mary Linton Bookwalter
Mary Emma Roberts
Florence Wales
Florence Willets
Elizabeth Augusta Chant
Ida Pell Conklin
Bertha Lum
James H. Winn
Douglas Donaldson
Harold L. Boyle
Maurice Irwin Flagg
Ruth Raymond
Memories and stories
Photo Gallery
M.Emma Roberts
Florence Willets
Mary Moulton Cheney
Ernest Batchelder
Harriet Carmichael
Mary Linton Bookwalter Ackerman
Elizabeth Augusta Chant
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Henrietta Barclay Paist
John Scott Bradstreet
Students
Deeds
by Florence Willets
Candlesticks
by Mary Moulton Cheney
by Gladys Pattee
Tea Set
Bowl
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by Jessie Preston
Art Craft Shop
Guild Hall
Guild Hall
Front Entrance
Room with Batchelder fireplace
Tea Room
Sales Room
Edmund Brooks bookshop
Weber studios
William Channing Whitney-architect
Horace Newell Leighton-builder
Joseph Ramsdell Kingman-funder
1910 photo and plans
Building permit A9849
Improvement Bulletin 1907
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Logo
Handicraft December 1910
Related Links
Slideshow - What does it look like?
Articles
Minneapolis Star Tribune 7/3/2015
Minneapolis Star Tribune 6/21/2015
If These Walls Could Talk 5/19/2015
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Bulletin 1907
Artists
The Handicraft Guild Art Collective - Summer 2015
The Handicraft Guild Art Collective 2015
Mary Moulton Cheney's jewelry designs
Mary Moulton Cheney - Chapter 13 Corinthians
Permit Cards and Historic Designation
Minneapolis Local Historic Landmark Designation
National Register of Historic Places nomination 1997
Tenants
Dahl Violin shop - Dream Garage
Websites
History of the Arts & Crafts Movement
