The Calhoun Beach Club is an apartment community, health club, and commercial center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, just across Lake Street from Lake Calhoun's namesake. Its founders want the club to meet their residential, recreational and entertainment needs in one building. The original building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 23, 2003. This is considered significant as a rare local example of an apartment hotel, a typical urban housing choice of American cities in the 1920s.
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Construction of the building began in 1928, but was postponed for approximately 18 years due to the Great Depression. After the construction of World War II was completed, and it became a lively social club. The difficult financial times of the early 1950s forced the club to go bankrupt. The building was converted into a hotel in 1954 and marketed as a venue for social occasions such as debauchery, parties, lunch, banquets and wedding receptions. The upper floor is transformed into a fashionable apartment. WTCN (now KARE television and WWTC radio) moved the radio and TV studios to the second and third floors around that time. Staples from WTCN programming, such as Children's program Lunch with Casey and All Star Wrestling with Verne Gagne, live on the premises. From 1963 to 1972, the property was renamed Calhoun Beach Manor, operating as a home for the elderly.
In 1977 the building was restored to its intended use as a sports and social club. Handball and squash courts and swimming pools are restored, and the club features a tennis court, steam room, sauna, sunroom and jogging track. At that time, the lobby was restored in Art Deco style. Later, in the 1980s, the club added more facilities, such as aerobics studios, volleyball and basketball courts, and additional sports equipment.
In 1997 the addition of the tower was designed by the architect of KKE and then built.
In 2001, the property was renovated and converted into a luxury apartment house.
The original building - the oldest high-rise residential building outside of downtown Minneapolis - is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 23, 2003.
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Calhoun Beach Club Apartments
The Calhoun Beach Club community is located in Uptown-Lakes area, overlooking Calhoun Lake, Lake Islands, Cedar Lake and downtown Minneapolis, MN. The Calhoun Beach Club community consists of 332 apartment houses, divided among 57 different floor plans. Apartment houses vary from studio to 4-bedrooms, which range from 600 m² (56 m 2 ) to 3,400 sq ft (320 m 2 ). The property is currently owned and operated by the Apartment Investment and Management Company (AIMCO).
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Calhoun Beach Club includes 11 retail spaces, seven of which are currently occupied by Urban Eatery restaurants, Sash Salon, Strauman Holistic Chiropractic, Uptime Nutrition, D'Amico Catering and Sales, Beck and Tysver, and Calhoun Beach Health Club.
The 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m 2 ) Calhoun Beach Health Club features high-tech fitness equipment, various sports and fitness classes including Pilates, ballroom dancing, strength-building, yoga and running clubs. In addition, Calhoun Beach Club has indoor and outdoor pools, a restaurant, a full-service salon, fitness classes, outdoor recreation equipment and a tanning salon.
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