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1501 Dupont Avenue North: John Young House
HISTORY
Constructed in 1888 for John Young, treasurer of a Minneapolis gas company, and designed by Charles Sedgwick, this is a beautiful example of the classic Queen Anne style.
According to…
Main Street Buildings (1855, 1858 and 1890)
MINNEAPOLIS' OLDEST MASONRY COMMERCIAL BUILDING • • •
• 117, 123-27, 129 Main Street
• Benjamin Cutter, Unknown and Carl Struck, architects
• Greek Revival, Italianate Revival and Queen…
First Universalist Church/Our Lady of Lourdes Church (1857 and 1880s)
DESIGNED FOR MORE CATHOLIC TASTES • • •
• 1 Lourdes Place
• Architect Unknown
• Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and French Second Empire-styles
• Narrated by Michael Rainville •
Churches…
Random Stories
1706 Colfax Ave. So.
Original owner: Arthur Miller
Architect: Leroy S. Buffington
Built 1907
Leroy Buffington claimed to have invented the skyscraper and for a time held a patent on the idea.
Octavius Broughton House (1859)
ONCE OBSCURED CLASSIC ARCHITECTURE NOW SHINES BRIGHT • • •
• 511 4th Avenue SE
• Architect Unknown
• Greek Revival-style
• Narrated by Ted Tucker •
When millwright Octavius Broughton arrived from New England in 1854, sawmilling was St.…
1726 Dupont Avenue North: Ascension School
HISTORY:
Imagine a school with three teachers, three classrooms...and 160 students! That was the original Ascension School, founded in 1897. Unfortunately, no pictures have been found of the original building.
The first building pictured here…
Mississippi River Gorge
THE BIRTHPLACE OF MINNEAPOLIS • • •
• Narrated by Cordelia Pierson •
St. Anthony Falls is the most abrupt drop in the Mississippi River’s entire 2,200-mile length. Here, the river drops nearly 75 feet in just a few blocks: 49 feet from the…
3101 2nd Ave. So.: William M. & Kate Regan House
Built: 1890
Cost estimate on building permit: $6,000
This is probably the best-known house in the Healy Block District because of its high visibility on the corner of 31st Street and its exuberant architecture. Jacob & Mina Sinsheimer were its…
5319 Upton Ave. So.
Architects: William Purcell and Frederick Strauel (“spec” house for Henry M. Peterson)
Date: 1928
Style: English Cottage Revival
The dominant feature of this house is its two-story polygonal bay. As with the other houses in the neighborhood,…