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!
try wikipedia
I stayed at the Whitney either 1988 or '89, so it was earlier than the 90s.
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