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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



September, 1910 



Homes of Minneapolis 



By Francis Durando Nichols 



F ONE of the principal characteristics of a 

 most progressive and flourishing city of 

 any locality in this country lies in its ar- 

 tistic and livable homes, then evidently 

 Minneapolis may lay claim to the distinc- 

 tion of such possessions. 



Minneapolis of the Middle-West is 

 certainly a "City of Beautiful Homes," built on a broad 

 scale, without any attempt or pretense to be more elegant 

 than the requirements that a refined and cultured people 

 demand. 



The houses illustrated in this series are representative of 

 a few of the best types of moderate cost that have recently 

 been constructd in that city. 



While built in the city limits, they might be called either 

 suburban or country houses, for the reason that any one of 

 them is adapted to be built in any locality, the only differ- 

 ence being in the amount of land which surrounds each one 

 of them, whether it be simply a suburban plot, or a country 

 acreage. 



The houses of the Middle-West differ from the Eastern 

 only so far as the materials which are used for their 

 building are concerned. Although the latter frequently 

 show more timber in their construction, the concrete and 

 plaster buildings are becoming more common in the East, 

 while the clapboarded house, which was formerly so fre- 

 quently seen in that district, is practically unknown in the 

 important cities of the West. 



There is a distinctive charm about the English half- 

 timbered house, and the one treated in that style and illus- 

 trated in Figs. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, and built for J. F. At- 

 wood, Esq., is not the exception to the rule, for the exterior 

 is most pleasing and artistic. The house is constructed of 

 red brick to the level of the window sills of the first story, 

 while the remainder of the building is covered with beams 

 stained a Van Dyke brown and forming panels which are 

 filled in with cream colored stucco. The roof is covered 

 with shingles and stained red. The interior finish of the 

 lower floor is severely plain. The entrance to the house is 

 direct with the living-room, which is trimmed with English 



Fig. 1 — The residence of J. F. Atwood, Esq., is built of brick and half-timber work 



