| The City Hall and Courthouse is home to an abundance of local history and urban legend. Discover amazing facts about the building on a tour led by one of our volunteer docents. Tour highlights include the 44-ton Father of Waters statue, the five-story Rotunda adorned with stained glass windows, the recently renovated City Council Chambers, a clock tower rising to 345 feet, grotesques peering out from around the Rotunda elevator doors, the Lillian Cross tile, and million-year-old fossils.
Regularly scheduled building tours are offered the third Wednesday of every month beginning at 12 noon by the Father of Waters. Tours for a different date and time may be scheduled by calling the Tour Information Line at 612-596-9535. Please call two to three weeks in advance to reserve a date and time. Or, if you feel like exploring the building on your own, stop by the security desk in the rotunda and pick up a self-guided tour brochure.
Check out the building Fun Facts for a decade-by-decade timeline of building facts. If you still haven't satisfied your need for information about this spectacular structure, click on the historic photo archive for historic images with descriptions of the building and of Minneapolis in the early 1900s.
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