Minneapolis Historical
A project by Preserve Minneapoliswww.MinneapolisHistorical.org is Preserve Minneapolis’s guide to our city’s historic architecture. To start, click the Stories or Tours buttons or use the Search function – all at the top of this page. You can also click the "expand" icon in the map above to see the locations of all described buildings and landscapes. Preserve Minneapolis, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization, is dedicated to improving the quality of life in Minneapolis by recognizing, preserving, and describing the architectural and related cultural resources of our city. Click here to donate to Preserve Minneapolis.
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1425 Dupont Avenue North: Frederick Stevens House
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First Universalist Church/Our Lady of Lourdes Church (1857 and 1880s)
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1514 Dupont Avenue North: John Lohmar House
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3137 2nd Ave. So.: Healy-Forbes House
Built: 1886
Cost estimate on building permit: $2,200
T.P. Healy built this, his first house in Minneapolis, for his own family, which in 1886 consisted of his wife, Mary Anne, and their nine children—Lena (19), Alice (18), Charles (16), Dora…
Exposition Hall (1886)
Medical Arts Building
Architects: Long and Thorshov, 1923
Addition by Long and Thorshov, 1929
Renovation by Shea Architects, 1993
The Medical Arts Building is sheathed in bright white terra cotta. “Terra cotta” translates from Latin as “baked earth,” and that’s…