Jan 01, 2009
1719 West Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA
1719 West Franklin Avenue Home History Vincent James Associates and 2218 Lake of the Isles Pkwy. West Hargreaves Associates (landscape architects), 1997 / Art:glass and sliding panels, James Carpenter Design Associates (New York) A temple of high modernism executed in teak, stone, glass, and steel. Its owners, from the Day- ton's Department Store family, acquired two older houses here near the north end of Lake of the Isles, then tore them down to make way for this home. Set amid precisely landscaped grounds, the house is clad in Indiana lime- stone with teak framing around the windows, and it's aligned so that the south and west sides face the lake. Its two wings partially enclose a granite-paved motor court and a sculpted lawn, creating the sense of a private compound. The house's floor-to- ceiling windows, chaste detailing, insistent rectilinearity, and aura of deluxe understatement all call to mind one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's modernist pavilions, and you have to believe the old master himself might have approved of the design (though Mies being Mies, he would have quibbled over details). Within, the house includes sliding panels and glass designed by artist James Carpenter. Citation: Millett, Larry. AIA Guide to the Minneapolis Lake District. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009.
1719 West Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA
1719 West Franklin Avenue Home History Vincent James Associates and 2218 Lake of the Isles Pkwy. West Hargreaves Associates (landscape architects), 1997 / Art:glass and sliding panels, James Carpenter Design Associates (New York) A temple of high modernism executed in teak, stone, glass, and steel. Its owners, from the Day- ton's Department Store family, acquired two older houses here near the north end of Lake of the Isles, then tore them down to make way for this home. Set amid precisely landscaped grounds, the house is clad in Indiana lime- stone with teak framing around the windows, and it's aligned so that the south and west sides face the lake. Its two wings partially enclose a granite-paved motor court and a sculpted lawn, creating the sense of a private compound. The house's floor-to- ceiling windows, chaste detailing, insistent rectilinearity, and aura of deluxe understatement all call to mind one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's modernist pavilions, and you have to believe the old master himself might have approved of the design (though Mies being Mies, he would have quibbled over details). Within, the house includes sliding panels and glass designed by artist James Carpenter. Citation: Millett, Larry. AIA Guide to the Minneapolis Lake District. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009.
Jan 01, 2009
Posted Date
Sep 20, 2023
Historical Record Date
Jan 01, 2009
Source Name
AIA Guide to the Minneapolis Lake District
