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By Linda Mack Star Tribune Staff Writer St. Paul-born architect Benjamin Thompson is known around the world for his such as Fanueil Hall and Harborplace. But his greatest legacies to his hometown were a building the glimmering Ordway Music Theatre (now the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts) and a vision of a lush, forested Mississippi River Valley. Thompson died last week at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 84.

When asked to suggest ways to revitalize St. riverfront in the early 1990s, he returned not with a drawing of restaurants and candle shops but a watercolor of a tree-filled river valley. Embraced by then-Mayor Norm Coleman and city leaders, the idea of the River spurred a return to the Mississippi. Dick Broeker, who was then deputy mayor, said Thompson wonderful with the view, eliminating the NSP power plant and rearranging the landscape, but the imagery caught imaginations. It also inspired them to invest in such riverfront efforts as the Greening the Great River Park, which has planted 40,000 trees, the Science Museum of Minnesota and the renovation of Harriet Island Park.

can draw a straight line from all the hundreds of people who are down at the riverfront to Ben said Broeker. wife and architectural partner, Jane, said the image of the green river valley really childhood dream, expressed in this one perspective Thompson grew up on Summit Avenue, a block from the wealthy Or- dway family a link that later led to his most visible local design, the Ordway theater. His childhood friend, Sally Ordway Irvine, and her family were the major donors for the project, which, with help, expanded beyond its original conception. The project was one of the happiest episodes in his life, Jane Thompson said. When the dynamic glass-walled theater opened on St.

Rice Park in 1985, it restored the sense of confidence. It was described at the time as gift to his native city. Jack Hoeschler, a Minneapolis attorney who worked with him on an unexecuted design for the St. Paul Hotel in the early 1980s, said Thompson left St. Paul after his divorce when he was 14 and had a desire to reconnect with the old He graduated from Yale University in 1941 and entered the U.S.

Navy. In 1946 he founded the Architects Collaborative in Cambridge with German architect Walter Gropius and six other architects. After founding his own firm, Benjamin Thompson Associates, he designed the St. Paul new campus in the early And although Hoeschler said his ideas for the St. Paul Hotel were not carried out the first time it was renovated, they were later.

idea was that the restaurant should face onto the park, where it is now, and be a noisy, vibrant part of the Hoeschler said. That notion fit with his whole philosophy of architecture. Retired St. Paul businessman David Lilly, another Thompson friend, said his view that buildings and architecture should be background music to the activity of It was that approach that Thompson and developer James Rouse used to turn the abandoned Quincy Market into a symbol of vitality in 1976. South Street Seaport in New York, Harborplace and the renovation of the Old Post Office in Washington, D.C., followed, making the festival marketplace a national phenomenon.

Strolling, eating and watching others eat became part of urban experience. The Thompsons also started three restaurants in Cambridge and opened Design Research, a store featuring simple and well-designed furniture, accessories and fabrics. impact on U.S. cities earned him the 1992 American Institute of Gold Medal, its highest award. Thompson designed first festival marketplace, the first part of St.

Anthony Main in the early 1980s. It later faltered, after several additions. His other Twin Cities buildings include Winslow House near St. Anthony Main and the former Opus Corp. headquarters in Minnetonka.

Hoeschler said Thompson was a terrible speaker who mumbled and stuttered, but put together evocative slide presentations that you saying brother, Henry Blodgett, a cousin of who worked with him on the Ordway, St. Anthony Main and St. Paul Academy projects, said he started out painting watercolors. After his first stroke in 1990, he started painting again, with his remaining good hand. Jane Thompson said he spent the next summer working on the image of the St.

Paul riverfront. Then he had a more serious stroke in 1994 and was never able to travel to see the reviving riverfront, was really too she said. we kept up on it. I think that was really close to his Linda Mack is at Thompson, who died last week at his home in Cambridge, designed the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. By Chuck Haga Star Tribune Staff Writer Robert Pope filled his days with music.

happened often that orchestrate and perform music for his morning worship service, then attend an organ concert in the afternoon with a lecture after and then play the drums with a jazz group at said his son Brant. loved it all. But jazz more than anything else was where he lived spiritually, because there was both structure and freedom in Robert Pope social worker, minister and jazz drummer for more than 50 years died Aug. 12 at his home in Bloomington of apparent heart failure brought on by diabetes. He was 74.

Brant Pope, who teaches theater at Penn State University, said his father played with Twin Cities bandleader Percy Hughes for many years and had a chance to tour with Chet Baker, an acclaimed trumpet player and quartet leader in the 1950s. asked him to tour and be his permanent he said. he was too broadly interested, and he would have had to give up too much of his life. He enjoyed the whole palette. tends not to reward people like that, people with many interests, but he just have been satisfied with one musical focus.

wish I had been older, though, so I could have watched him play with Chet He does have fond memories of watching his father perform with Hughes at the Point Supper Club in Golden Valley. So does Hughes. was one of the premier jazz drummers Hughes said. had a wonderful relationship musically and as close It was as a mail carrier that Hughes met Pope. delivered mail to his house, and we started he said.

was a beautiful guy with such intelligence. He smoke or drink, and I patterned myself after him. Bob had many offers from Chet Baker and others. But he just care to go. He was always Pope was a Hennepin County social worker from 1952 to 1985.

He also was a lay minister in the Unitarian Universalist Church. Starting with the Bill West Band in 1944, Pope played drums with many Twin Cities groups from the 1950s on, performing regularly at such jazz clubs as and the Poodle. As a member of the Herb Pil- hofer Trio, he recorded several times and appeared on the Steve Allen television show in 1962. Complications from diabetes affected his feet and forced him to stop performing in 1998, his son said. Pope had an extensive collection of pipe organ music and regularly attended concerts and recitals.

In addition to his son Brant, survivors include his wife, Constance; daughters Roberta Hardwick of Phoenix and Leah Lindgren of Edina; sons Kenneth Pope of Phoenix and Jordan Jansen of Lubbock, Texas; eight grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul. Chuck Haga is at OBITUARY POLICY: The Star Tribune staff writes news stories about the deaths of notable people in the community.

To reach an obituary writer, call 612-6737277. The other obituaries appearing here are paid ads. For rates and other information, call 612-6734130 or 1-800-927-9133. Obituaries PAGE B6 AUGUST 20 2002 Also noted Architect Benjamin Thompson remembered for St. Paul legacy Bob Pope one of the premier jazz drummers a fellow musician said.

Jazz drummer, social worker Robert Pope This watercolor of a tree-filled river valley inspired city leaders to invest in a River wife, Jane, said the image really childhood File photos by Tom Star Tribune The St. Paul artistic conception of a lush, forested Mississippi River Valley spurred the return to the riverfront. Elias Bredsdorff 90, a biographer who sought to bring fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen out of the nursery, died Aug. 8 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the author in 1975 of Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and which sought to establish the 19th-century writer as a serious literary figure.

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