4845 Bryant Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN, USA

4845 Bryant Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, USA

4845 Bryant Ave S Home History
Purcell Feick and Elmslie, 1911 house, 4844 Aldrich Ave. South
Paul Mueller, 1913

These properties, on high wooded lots, sit back to back. Both were built for Paul Mueller, a land- scape architect who came from a wealthy family. After his marriage, Mueller hired Purcell and Elmslie to design a small studio for his new practice. Clad in horizontal board-and-batten siding, the one- story studio isn't one of the firm's major works. Still, it's skillfully done, with a polygonal bay at one end atop a tuck-under garage. Purcell and Elmslie also planned a house for Mueller, but he ultimately decided to build his own. Although Purcell later dis- missed Mueller's design as "ordinary," it is in fact quite unusual. Built of timber framing in the old English manner (not a thing commonly done in 1913), the house is thoroughly Craftsman in spirit. It has vertical board-and-batten siding and rows of casement windows above a rugged base of local limestone punctured by a deep-set entrance arch. Mueller later moved to Chicago; this impressive house remains his sole work of architecture in the Twin Cities.

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

4845 Bryant Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Philip J. Rosenbloom residence, 4845 South Bryant Avenue, Minneapolis
Content: Approximately 1972