Description

Glass wine glasses with frosted glass bases and stems and a decorative top to the stem. The front of the glasses bears the logo of the Whitney Hotel. The luxurious Whitney Hotel was opened in the 1980s in a building originally constructed in 1879 as part of a large milling complex. The hotel closed in 2003 to make way for condominiums which were delayed but finally completed in 2007. These glasses were presented to Barbara Flanagan, a well-known Minneapolis journalist and columnist whose career at the Star Tribune spanned from 1945 to 1988. Throughout those four decades, Ms. Flanagan presided at countless official ground breakings and ribbon cutting events and collected dozens of commemorative items, from pins to buttons to wine glasses and hard hats. She donated them to HHM in 1993.Flanagan, Barbara