Stories by author "Richard L. Kronick ": 21
Stories
Dayton's Fourth Floor Bathroom
The Dayton's Project
700 Nicollet Mall
The women's bathroom on the fourth floor of the Dayton's Project (originally Dayton's Department Store), perhaps from the 1930s, is an Art Deco tour de force. Unfortunately, sources of…
First Universalist Church (originally Adath Jeshurun Synagogue)
3400 Dupont Ave S, Minneapolis
Architects: Liebenberg and Kaplan
Synagogue: 1927; school and administration wing added 1953
The Adath Jeshurun (Hebrew for “gathering of the righteous”) congregation was founded in 1884 by Russian and…
Disciples Ministry Church (originally Mikro Kodesh Synagogue)
1000 Oliver Avenue No.
Architect: Septimus J. Bowler
1927
The story of Mikro Kodesh (Hebrew for “holy assembly”; pronounced MICK-ro KO-desh) exemplifies the ups and downs of many U.S. Jewish congregations. In 1958 Mikro Kodesh was the largest…
Hosmer Librray
Hosmer Library was built in 1913 during a period of rapid immigration into Minneapolis. The library was used often by students from Central High School, one block away, which opened in 1916. (Central High was closed and mostly demolished in 1982;…
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Architects: Charles S. Sedgwick & Warren H. Hayes, 1897
1911: Kindergarten room by Purcell, Feick & Elmslie (demolished).
1937 addition: great hall, hallway, and chapel
1980s addition: offices on south side
2002 addition: Wing on…
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.
1710 Colfax Ave. So.
This house in the Tudor Revival style was built in 1911. Architects: Lamoreaux and Long.
5312 Vincent Ave. So.
Architects: William Purcell and Frederick Strauel (“spec” house for Henry M. Peterson)
Date: 1928
Style: French Cottage Revival/Colonial Revival
Surprise! Here, the architects and their client departed completely from the English Cottage…
2825 Brookwood Terrace
Architect: Frederick Strauel (“spec” house for Henry M. Peterson)
Date: 1929
Style: English Cottage Revival
Primarily, this house is an essay on one of the most important components of the English Cottage Revival Style: half-timbering. Of…
5312 Upton Ave. So.
Architects: William Purcell and Frederick Strauel (“spec” house for Henry M. Peterson)
Date: 1929
Style: Spanish Colonial / English Cottage Revival
Surprise! While most of the Purcell and Strauel houses in this group are purely English Cottage…