Where is HomesMSP? – noteworthy houses

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Week of April 5, 2010 – houses

HomesMSP is looking at houses this week. Today's historic home is still a private residence, built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934 for an administrator at the U of M. Do you know where it is?

Malcolm Willey House… private residence built by Frank Lloyd Wright at 255 Bedford St SE, Minneapolis

 

HomesMSP is at another Prairie School house today, one of the designers the long-time chief draftsman for Louis Sullivan. This house is now open to the public. Can you identify it?

Purcell-Cutts House… significant example of Prairie School architecture owned by Minneapolis Institute of Arts, … at 2328 Lake Place near Lake of the Isles, Minneapolis

Where is HomesMSP? Today's house is pure fancy, the house of Mary Richard's apartment when the Mary Tyler Moore showed first aired 40 years ago... a TV breakthrough with the first never married, independent career woman as the central character. Where is it?Mary Tyler Moore House… private residence and pictured house of Mary Richard's apartment when the Mary Tyler Moore Show first aired on TV 40 years ago… at 2104 Kenwood Parkway near Lake of the Isles, Minneapolis

Where is HomesMSP? Today's house, built in 1996, was the home of the architect who wrote the "Not So Big House" and started a movement. Who is she and where is the house?Not So Big House… private residence built by architect Sarah Susanska for herself… on Upper Afton Terrace, overlooking St. Paul's Battle Creek Park

Where is HomesMSP? Today's site is the home of the first territorial governor of Minnesota, now owned by the MN Historical Society. Who was he and where is it located?

Alexander Ramsey House… home of the first territorial governor of Minnesota & one of the nation's best preserved Victorian era homes, owned by the MN Historical Society… 265 Exchange, St. Paul

Sunday's Site - American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis Sunday's Site – American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis… museum, education and research center housed in stunning mansion built in 1908 for Swedish immigrants… at 2600 Park Ave S, Minneapolis

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