File:North Star Boot and Shoe Company Building (Kickernick Building) and Wyman Partridge Building Annex, 5th Street and N 1st Avenue, Warehouse District, Minneapolis, MN - 51762427356.jpg

English: On the left, built in 1916, this 12-story Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Kees & Colburn for the Wyman Partridge Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler of dry goods, as an annex to their older building to the northeast. The building features a buff brick facade with a terra cotta base, decorative spandrel panels between the first and second floors, an elaborate original first-floor entrance with a small canopy featuring decorative brackets and a simpler entrance added in 1934 with a simple stone trim surround, recessed window bays separated by pilasters on the fourth through ninth floors, a band of terra cotta trim at the window sills on the 10th floor, and a decorative terra cotta-clad parapet at the top with three pediments, decorative reliefs, and the Wyman Partridge company’s name spelled out in the center. The sides of the building are much less elaborate and are clad in a less finished, darker-colored buff brick. The building has been adaptively reused as an office building, and once housed the Glam Slam nightclub, owned by famous Minneapolis native Prince.

On the right, built in 1896, this Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Hayes and Spaulding, and was expanded in 1902 to the north by Long and Long, and was originally home to the North Star Boot and Shoe Company, though it is now known as the Kickernick Building. The building features a red brick facade with a rusticated stone base, horizontal reveals, pilasters on the second floor, double-hung windows, bands of stone trim, an arched entrance at the western end of the building with voussoirs and a keystone, a simple cornice, and corbeling above the top floor windows. The addition has a similar base to the original buildings, with the 4th-6th floors featuring vertical bands of windows with decorative spandrel panels, and no brick corbeling above the top floor windows. The building was later home to the Freeman Patterson Shoe Company, New England Furniture Company, and T. W. Stevenson Company, and has been adaptively reused as commercial office space with retail spaces on the first floor.

The buildings are contributing structures in the Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.