"Mr. Foshay's Legend " is a pretty good description of the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And of it's colorful and ethically challenged namesake.
The Foshay Tower was designed to look like the Washington Monument. It was the first skyscraper built in America west of the Mississippi. For forty years it was the tallest building in Minneapolis.
It's now lost in the forest of steel-and-glass towers of downtown Minneapolis.
But, the Foshay Tower has a 90% occupancy rate, and, considering that it was designed to withstand 400-mile-per-hour winds, it should be around for quite a while.
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