Rand Tower

	Rand Tower Hotel
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Rand Tower Hotel from the west
Location	527 Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Coordinates	44°58′38.5″N 93°16′11″W / 44.977361°N 93.26972°W
Built	1928
Architect	Holabird & Root
Architectural style	Art deco
NRHP reference No.	84003937
Added to NRHP	April 14, 1994

Rand Tower Hotel is a 26-story high rise hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It was one of the city's tallest structures when it was completed as an office building in 1929. It was converted to a hotel in 2020.

History

The Rand Tower Hotel was designed by Holabird & Root for Rufus Rand, a World War I aviator who was part of the family that owned the Minneapolis Gas Company (Minnegasco), now part of CenterPoint Energy. Rand had flown in the Lafayette Flying Corps during the war. Much of the building is covered in Art Deco ornamentation that follows an aviation theme and there is a sculpture Wings in the lobby by Oskar J. W. Hansen. The original builder was C.F. Haglin & Sons.

A skyway was attached to the building in 1969.^[3] Rand Tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It was known for a time as the Dain Tower until Dain Rauscher relocated to the Dain Rauscher Plaza just down the street in 1992. It was purchased by Gaughan Companies in 2004. In 2008, Hempel Properties purchased the Rand Tower to house its headquarters.^[4] Maven Real Estate Partners purchased the building in 2017 for $18.7 million.^[5] Maven converted the office building^[6] into a 270-room hotel,^[7] at a cost $110 million.^[8] The Rand Tower Hotel opened on December 2, 2020, as part of the Tribute Portfolio division of Marriott.^[9]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ Minnesota Modern Registry, Docomomo US MN, accessed April 15, 2023.
^ Beach, James. The skyways turn 40. Skyway News. Published May 13, 2002, retrieved on November 28, 2006.
^ Grayson, Katherine (September 3, 2008). "Rand Tower tower sold for $10.2M". Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal. Advance Publications. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
^ Niksa, Matthew (July 17, 2019). "Owner of Rand Tower converting it into boutique Marriott hotel". Star Tribune. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
^ Niksa, Matthew (July 17, 2019). "Owner of Rand Tower converting it into boutique Marriott hotel". Star Tribune. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
^ Niksa, Matthew (July 17, 2019). "Owner of Rand Tower converting it into boutique Marriott hotel". Star Tribune. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
^ "Rand Hotel Tower opens this week after $110 million renovation". Star Tribune.
^ "Rand Tower Hotel Opens December 2".

External links

Rand Tower

Oskar J.W. Hansen

Rufus R. Rand

Rufus R. Rand at the Minnesota Aviation Hall Of Fame. Scroll down to bottom of page.
Rand Mansion in Wayzata, Minnesota

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[Docomomo_US_MN-2] Minnesota Modern Registry, Docomomo US MN, accessed April 15, 2023.

[3] Beach, James. The skyways turn 40. Skyway News. Published May 13, 2002, retrieved on November 28, 2006.

[4] Grayson, Katherine (September 3, 2008). "Rand Tower tower sold for $10.2M". Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal. Advance Publications. Retrieved 2008-09-04.

[5] Niksa, Matthew (July 17, 2019). "Owner of Rand Tower converting it into boutique Marriott hotel". Star Tribune. Retrieved 21 June 2020.

[6] Niksa, Matthew (July 17, 2019). "Owner of Rand Tower converting it into boutique Marriott hotel". Star Tribune. Retrieved 21 June 2020.

[7] Niksa, Matthew (July 17, 2019). "Owner of Rand Tower converting it into boutique Marriott hotel". Star Tribune. Retrieved 21 June 2020.

[8] "Rand Hotel Tower opens this week after $110 million renovation". Star Tribune.

[9] "Rand Tower Hotel Opens December 2".

[2]

[1]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

v t e Skyscrapers and major buildings in Minneapolis
Commercial	100 Washington Square 33 South Sixth 50 South Sixth 60 South Sixth 901 Marquette Ameriprise Financial Center Canadian Pacific Plaza CenturyLink Building Capella Tower Fifth Street Towers I Fifth Street Towers II Gaviidae Common IDS Center LaSalle Plaza Minneapolis City Center PwC Plaza Rand Tower RSM Plaza SPS Tower Target Plaza South Two22 US Bancorp Center US Bank Plaza I US Bank Plaza II Wells Fargo Center
Residential	110 Grant Apartments The Carlyle Churchill Apartments Eleven on the River Hub La Rive Condominiums Riverside Plaza WaHu Student Apartments
Hospitality	IVY Hotel + Residences Minneapolis Marriott City Center Hotel Radisson Blu Minneapolis W Minneapolis - The Foshay
Sports	3M Arena at Mariucci Target Center Target Field Huntington Bank Stadium Williams Arena U.S. Bank Stadium
Government	Hennepin County Government Center Minneapolis City Hall US Federal Courthouse
See also	List of tallest buildings in Minneapolis

v t e U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
Lists by county	Aitkin Anoka Becker Beltrami Benton Big Stone Blue Earth Brown Carlton Carver Cass Chippewa Chisago Clay Clearwater Cook Cottonwood Crow Wing Dakota Dodge Douglas Faribault Fillmore Freeborn Goodhue Grant Hennepin Houston Hubbard Isanti Itasca Jackson Kanabec Kandiyohi Kittson Koochiching Lac qui Parle Lake Lake of the Woods Le Sueur Lincoln Lyon Mahnomen Marshall Martin McLeod Meeker Mille Lacs Morrison Mower Murray Nicollet Nobles Norman Olmsted Otter Tail Pennington Pine Pipestone Polk Pope Ramsey Red Lake Redwood Renville Rice Rock Roseau St. Louis Scott Sherburne Sibley Stearns Steele Stevens Swift Todd Traverse Wabasha Wadena Waseca Washington Watonwan Wilkin Winona Wright Yellow Medicine
Other lists	Bridges National Historic Landmarks Voyageurs National Park
Keeper of the Register History of the National Register of Historic Places Property types Historic district Contributing property

History

See also

References

External links