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3131 2nd Ave. So.: Healy-Haynes House (also called Healy-Rea House)
Built: 1890
Cost estimate on building permit: $5,000
This is the twelfth house Healy built in the district. As explained in the text for 3137 2nd Ave. So., in 1886 the Healy family first lived at 3137 2nd Ave. So. Then, in 1888, they moved…
3120 3rd Ave. So.: Edmund G. & Clara B. Babbidge House
Built: 1891
Cost estimate on building permit: $6,000
This is the sixteenth house that Healy built in the district. The first owners were Edmund Babbidge, a traveling agent, and his wife Clara. They lived in the house from 1891 to 1909. Also…
3107 2nd Ave. So.: Andrew H. & Elizabeth Adams House
Built 1891
Cost estimate on building permit: $5,000
This is the eighteenth house that Healy built in the district and one of six houses he started in 1891. The first owners were Herman C. and Bess Evers, who lived here from 1892 to 1896. Herman…
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…
Queen Anne architecture
Queen Anne architecture became the predominant style of domestic architecture in the United States following the showcasing of English architectural designs at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. It had little to do with the architecture…
Introduction to The Healy Block
The story of the Healy Block, a historic district on the 3100 blocks of 2nd and 3rd Avenues So., revolves around Theron Potter “T. P.” Healy (1844-1906), born into a family of farmers and carpenters in Round Hill, Nova Scotia. Theron married Mary…
Washburn Water Tower
Editor's note:
Macalester College student Brooke Sapper researched and wrote this essay on the Washburn Water Tower in 2019. Macalester College staff and Preserve Minneapolis supervised Brooke's project collaboratively.…
Washburn Memorial Orphanage
Editor's note:
Macalester College student Mackenzie O'Brien researched and wrote this essay on the Washburn Memorial Orphan Asylum in 2019. Macalester College staff and Preserve Minneapolis supervised Mackenzie's project…
Lustron Homes
Editor's note:
There are six Lustron houses in the 5000 block of Nicollet Avenue: 5009, 5015, 5021, 5027, 5047, and 5055. Three additional Lustron houses are at 4900 and 4916 Cedar Avenue in South Minneapolis and 2436 Mount View Avenue in…
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
While working in the late 1940s as associate architects with Eliel Saarinen on Christ Lutheran Church (3244 34th Avenue South in Minneapolis), the Minneapolis firm, Hills Gilbertson Architects (James Hills and Victor Gilbertson, principals), was…