Can anyone help me find the history of the Whitney hotel in Minneapolis?

Yikes! You're making me feel old and I've never worked harder on finding an answer!! (Finding a videographer for you was much easier! Looked at your Yahoo name after I answered the question and said...Gee, that name looks familiar!)

I worked for a hotel down the street from the Whitney--and even after trying to find a date for when it became 'The Whitney', I can only guess the very early 1990's. But this was bugging me, so I went hunting.... (You owe me a drink...LOL)

Was able to dig up city records and as far as I could go, it looks like the fall of 1992 (give or take a week, November 1992) is when they opened as a hotel.

Right now, the Standard Mill, better known as The Whitney Hotel, is undergoing another transformation: Posh riverfront condos neighboring the Mill City Museum and new Guthrie Theatre called The Whitney Landmark Residences....$$$$$$$

The 2nd link is to a great line about the Whitney:

(While at 1st Avenue--the dance club).....I was on the packed main floor for an Ike & Tina Turner concert in the mid-1970s when I suddenly realized that I was standing face to face with Tina as she inched her way through the crowd to the stage. Boy, she's short. About 15 years later, I had dinner with her at the Whitney Hotel.....

OR.... Who says the young don't have a sense of history...The Whitney Hotel Corp., which claims the late grunge rock star Kurt Cobain followed a long and storied tradition and trashed the upscale Minneapolis hotel during a 1993 stay...

Love Minneapolis!

How long can a body sit there like that? And to be having a party while it's still in the building is odd, even by Hollywood standards.

try wikipedia