Background
Carl F. Struck was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway.
Carl F. Struck was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway.
He was educated there and in Copenhagen before immigrating to the United States in 1865.
After employment at architectural offices in Brooklyn, Cleveland, Chicago and Marquette, he arrived in in 1881, where he worked for the next twenty years. Among his most important commissions were designs for Scandinavian fraternal buildings and churches. Two buildings designed by Struck are in the: the Bardwell-Ferrant House at 2500 Portland Avenue South and the Pracna Building in the Saint Anthony Falls Historic District.
Another one of his works, Dania Hall, was added to the in 1974 and removed from the list after its destruction by fire in 2000.
The main building of the Grain Belt Brewery in Northeast is also in the Although Struck did not contribute to its design, he was the architect for an office building at 1215 Marshall Street North-East that was part of the complex.