Metropolitan DreamsThe story of one of Minnesotas most famous and most mourned buildings, set against the history of downtown Minneapolis When it opened in 1890, the twelve story Northwestern Guaranty Loan Building was the tallest, largest, and most splendid commercial structure in Minneapolisa mighty stone skyscraper built for the ages. How this grand Richardsonian Romanesque edifice, which later came to be called the Metropolitan Building, rose with the growth of