4236 Queen Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55410, USA

4236 Queen Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, USA

4236 Queen Ave S Home History
Harry Jones, 1897 and later

Set on a hill above terraced walls, this half-timbered, brick and stucco Tudor Revival mansion was built for Charles Van Tuyl, who was in the insurance business. He and wife Katherine lived next door at 4224 Queen before hiring Harry Jones to design this home on a double lot offering excellent views of Lake Harriet. Later, Van Tuyl acquired two more lots to the rear along Linden Hills Blvd. and created a mini- estate outfitted with stables, a tennis court, and a greenhouse. Van Tuyl and his wife lived here until their deaths (hers in 1929. his a year later).

In 1933 a new owner, U.S. Senator Thomas D. Schall, moved in. A lawyer and a Republican, Schall was also the first blind person elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and, later, to the U.S. Senate. His first senate campaign, against incumbent Magnus John- son-memorably described by Time magazine as a man of "leisurely mental processes"- was conducted with all the dignity you'd expect of a hotly con- tested political race. A Schall campaign button, for example, offered this pithy slogan: "Schall is blind but Magnus is dumb." Schall, who'd lost his sight in an accident as a young man, had nearly completed his second senate term in late 1935 when he was struck and killed by a car in Washington, DC.

Citation: Millett, Larry. AIA Guide to the Minneapolis Lake District. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009.

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