File:Butler Brothers Warehouse (Butler Square), 6th Street and N 1st Avenue, Warehouse District, Minneapolis, MN - 51762428641.jpg

English: Built in 1906-1908, this Chicago School-style warehouse was designed by Harry Wild Jones for the Butler Brothers Company, a mail-order operation. The building stands on land that was formerly home to Athletic Park, once home of the Minneapolis Millers, a minor-league baseball team. The large red brick masonry building features narrow window openings topped with gothic arches, penthouses at the exterior perimeter above the entrances and two taller penthouses in the rear, corbeling at the roofline that makes the building appear to taper outwards towards the top, decorative bands of brick details and corbeling on the exterior of the 2nd floor, gothic arches at the first floor windows, and entrances with decorative brick surrounds and roman arches. The interior is built of heavy timber posts and beams, with two modern atriums cut into the structure in the middle of the eastern and western portions. Owing to its architectural significance, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. In 1972, the building was partially adaptively reused as an office building, which saw major renovation to the interior and replacement of the original windows and spandrel panels on the exterior with glass curtain walls in the window openings, with additional renovations following the sale of the building in 1979, which were more respectful of the building’s original features. The building’s redevelopment served as a precedent for further adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of historic buildings within the surrounding neighborhood. The building is a contributing structure in the Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.