Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Building

Great Northern Implement Company
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Coordinates	44°58′38″N 93°15′34″W / 44.97722°N 93.25944°WCoordinates: 44°58′38″N 93°15′34″W / 44.97722°N 93.25944°W
Built	1910
Architect	Kees and Colburn
Architectural style	Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements, Other
NRHP Reference #	77000745 [1]
Added to NRHP	September 13, 1977

The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Building, also known as the Northern Implement Company and the American Trio Building, is a warehouse building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. PPG Industries of Pittsburgh constructed the structure. It was designed by locally notable firm Kees and Colburn and shows strong influences of noted architect Louis Sullivan.^[2] The arches in the top floor windows are modeled after Louis Sullivan's designs, which in turn were influenced by Henry Hobson Richardson's Richardsonian Romanesque style. The corners of the building are subtly chamfered in at the bottom and rise toward a flaring cornice at the top, echoing John Wellborn Root's design of the Monadnock Building in Chicago.^[3]

The building has now been converted to loft apartments.

References

1. National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. "Northern Implement Company". Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission. February 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
3. Millett, Larry (2007). AIA Guide to the Twin Cities: The Essential Source on the Architecture of Minneapolis and St. Paul. p. 76.