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…

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;…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…