This tour has 29 homes that cover a wide variety of architectural styles, designed for each client. You will see simple to avant-garde and modest to generous budgets; a cross-section of lifestyles from lakeside to city loft to farmhouses; and functional design decisions in material and citing meant to make the most of materials and land.
After a quick tour online of these homes, you can access the tour program guide and map and plan your own route to tour the homes.
The homes are listed from West to East and numbered accordingly on the map.
16. 2205 W. 52nd Street Minneapolis, Minnesota
Albertsson Hansen
Architects
Christine Albertsson, AIA,
and Todd Hansen, AIA
Contractor: Choice Wood Company
Currently the home of two architects,
this house overlooking Minnehaha
Creek was designed by architect
Carl Stravs in 1923. The original owner
was a writer who frequently contributed
to the shelter magazines of the time.
His articles often featured the process of
designing and building this home, and
the wonder of living in a place so connected
to nature. To take fuller advantage
of the setting, an addition updates the
original cottage by adding a simple gable
form to the back with the kitchen on the
main floor, master bedroom upstairs, and
a guest/playroom on the lower level.