Valley View Apartments

"Tornado Towers" redirects here. For building in Doha, see Tornado Tower.

Valley View Apartments (also known as Tornado Towers) was a block of buildings in Mankato, Minnesota, United States, constructed by placing mobile homes in a concrete frame, stacked four high.[1]

The building was erected in the 1970s, and demolished in 1995.

The buildings were widely condemned as ugly, and were eventually bought by the city for $160,000 and demolished.[2] They were replaced with more conventional apartments, of the same name.[3]

  1. ^ Urbanist (2015-12-08). "Social Climbers: 7 Vertical Trailer Parks for Mobile Urbanites". WebUrbanist. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  2. ^ "The Free Lance-Star - Google News Archive Search".
  3. ^ Hood, Nathaniel (2012-11-27). "Shipping Container Housing is a Terrible Idea". Streets.MN. Retrieved 2020-01-28.