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4 Locations ~ Curated by Individual building descriptions by Macalester College students in 2019Featured Stories
Main Street Buildings (1855, 1858 and 1890)
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1508 Dupont Avenue North: Case-Lang House
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1425 Dupont Avenue North: Frederick Stevens House
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Seymour and Marjorie Mandel House
Designers: Isadore, Seymour, and Marjorie Mandel
Date: 1953
Style: Woodsy Modern
The design of this house was a collaboration among Irwin Mandel, his brother Seymour, and Seymour’s wife, Marjorie. The house was built for Seymour and Marjorie…
The (New) Calhoun Theater
Opened: May 1, 1915
Redesigned and Expanded: January 1916.
Architect: Clifford T. McElroy
Original owner: Calhoun Theater Company
Contractor: David Comb and Sons
Architectural Style: Italian Renaissance Revival
The Calhoun Theatre -– also…
Main Street Buildings (1855, 1858 and 1890)
Banfill House
John Banfill operated a busy hotel, tavern, store and post office from this building when the trail passed by here. In 1851 he started the town of Manomin, named for the Ojibwe word for wild rice. It later became Fridley.
The Banfill House was…
Gillmer-Gleason House • 11 Red Cedar Lane
Architect: Bruce Knutson
Date: 1990
Style: English Cottage Revival
The Josephs, who owned 5 Red Cedar Lane, sold the eastern part of their large lot, where this house was built. A timber frame surrounds the front door. The exterior surface of…
3127 2nd Ave. So.: Josiah B. & Mary E. Hudson House
Built: 1890
Cost estimated on building permit: $6,000
This, the fourteenth house that Healy built in the district, was the family home of Josiah B. and Mary E. Hudson. J. B. Hudson began as an apprentice jeweler in Ohio in 1868 and opened his…