Gilded Age Mansion Tour

Eugene and Merrette Carpenter Mansion


Lumber Industry, Carpenter – Lamb Lumber Mill
1887/1906
300 Clifton Ave
Edwin Hewitt
Georgian Style

Alden Smith Mansion


Door and Sash Business
1400 Harmon Place
1887
William Channing Whitney
Richardsonian Romanesque Style

George R Newell Mansion


Stevens, Morse, and Newell Grocery became Supervalu
1818 LaSalle
1888
Richardsonian Romanesque

George and Nancy Van Dusen Mansion


Grain Milling/Grain Elevators
1900 LaSalle
1891
Rennaissance Romanesque

Ann and Frank Semple Mansion


Janny, Semple, Hill and Co Hard Goods
100 West Franklin
1901
Architects Franklin and Louis Long (City Hall)
Renaissance Revival

Charles Pillsbury Jr Mansion


Son of Pillsbury Grain Milling Co-Founder
100 East 22nd St
1913

Alfred Pillsbury House


Son of Grain Milling Co-Founder
116 East 22nd St
1901
Tudor Revival English Gothic Style

Edward and Sara Gale Mansion


Son of a real estate investor Daughter of Pillsbury Co Founder
2115 Stevens Avenue
1912
Renaissance Revival

John Bradstreet Mansion


First nationally renowned Minneapolis Artisan/Designer
Eugene Merrill Mansion
Baker and Lawyer
2116 2nd Ave S
1884
William Chaning Whitney
Richardsonian Romanesque

Fair Oaks Estate

Senator Washburn

1883
Washburn Park
General Mills

Carolyn Christian Mansion


Daughter in law of Washburn Crosby Milling Inventor
2303 3rd Ave S
1920
Architect Edwin Hewitt

Turnblad Mansion


Swedish American Newspaper Owner
2600 Park Ave
1903
French Renaissance Revival

Charles Harrington Mansion


President of VanDusen’s Company
VanDusen-Harrington Company
2540 Park Ave
1902
Italian Renaissance Revival
30,000 sq ft

Decorated by John Scott Bradstreet

George Peavey Mansion


Son of Farm Implements and Grain Elevators
1907
Renaissance Revival
2210 Park Avenue

Sumner McKnight Mansion


Lumber Industry
2200 Park Avenue
1892
Richardsonian Romanesque

Charles J Martin Mansion


Washburn Crosby Co Secretary and Treasurer

1300 Mount Curve
1903
Architect William Channing Whitney

Winton Mansion


1324 Mount Curve
1910
George Washington Maher
Prairie Style

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