Ogden Apartment Hotel

The Ogden Apartment Hotel is an apartment building in the Downtown West neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The building was designed for middle class worker housing when demand for such housing was increasing around the beginning of the 20th century. It was billed as an "apartment hotel", a design briefly popular in Minneapolis. The individual units did not have their own separate kitchens; instead, residents ate from a common restaurant in the building. The building was designed primarily to appeal to single men and women, as well as married couples without children. It included modern conveniences (for the time) such as private bathrooms, Murphy beds, and electric appliances. The building changed its name to the Continental Hotel...