Can You Name This Twin Cities Location?

The corner building in the photograph's foreground was the headquarters for one of the largest and most successful organizing drives among itinerant workers in North America.  The Minneapolis locals of the IWW moved into the building in late December of 1913 and had published this description of the hall in an April 1914 issue of Solidarity:

Though the structure has since been torn down (a discouraging and all too common trend in the Mill City), there are several details in the photograph that betray its original location.  Note that the two buildings to the right of the corner building still stand and very much look like they did when the photograph above was taken.  Another hint - the main entrance to the corner hall was not the light-colored brick storefront with large windows, but was in fact around the corner on the long side of the building - where you see the small wooden entryway.

Can you name the location where this important chapter of North American labor history was written?  Maybe a prize is in order for the first person who correctly identifies the intersection or address?

Keep an eye out here for more excerpts from the Twin Cities IWW history tour.

Our Work, Our Lives, Our Music - Guante's Harry Potter (Big Cats! Remix w/ Chantz)

What music keeps you going when you're at work, or when kicking a ball around the alley behind your building?  Musical tastes represent a small thread in the tapestry that is one's self and with that, MCC introduces the Our Work, Our Lives, Our Music posts.

Wherever I am - at the job or at play - it doesn't get much better than Guante.

Aside from the fact that his work is fresh, Guante strives to be an active participant in the movements that he writes and raps about - and I respect that in an artist.  Here in the Twin Cities, he's been quick to share his talents in support of labor organizations like the IWW and One Day in July festival.

Now keep up - Obama's supposedly been in the news a lot lately...Obama's support of the Claret and Blue is a topic of discussion...the Irons are, according to my wife, mentioned in one of the Harry Potter novels...it seems fitting then to open this series with Guante's Harry Potter (Big Cats! Remix w/ Chantz):

http://guanteandbigcats.bandcamp.com/track/harry-potter-big-cats-remix-w-chantz

Please go here to find out more about Guante and how to support his work - it's spectacular stuff.