Minnesota's Greatest Generation

Garden Court, Southdale Center, Edina, 1960

When the Southdale Shopping Center, the first completely enclosed shopping mall in the country, opened for business in 1956, residents of Richfield and Edina had an innovative and convenient alternative to shopping downtown. This postcard view shows the center's Garden Court as it looked in 1960.

Creator: C. H. Dean
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Date: 1960
Identifer: location MH5.9 ED3.1 r11

Garden Court, Southdale Center, Edina, 1960