Dr. Rufus H. Lane House, 3101 2nd Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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| Address: | 3101 2nd Avenue S |
| Neighborhood/s: | Central, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| City/locality- State/province |
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| County- State/province: |
Hennepin County, Minnesota |
| State/province: | Minnesota |
| Country: | United States |
| Year built: | 1890 |
| Primary Style: | Queen Anne |
| Historic Function: | House/single dwelling or duplex |
| Current Function: | House/single dwelling or duplex |
| Architect or source of design: | T.P. Healy |
| Builder: | T.P. Healy |
| Material of Exterior Wall Covering: | Wood |
| First Owner: | Dr. Rufus H. Lane |
(44.946503,-93.273757)
| National Register of Historic Places Information | |
| Reference Number: | 93000417 |
This 2 ½ story, wood frame, clapboard-clad Queen Anne style house is one of the most ornate in the Healy Block Residential Historic District. Designed and built by T.P. Healy, the
house is prominently situated on a corner lot.
A tower with a bulbous cap rises from the northwestern corner of the main façade. The house features a wrap-around open porch with a rounded corner and turned balusters.
Limestone piers support four short columns with Ionic capitals. There is a second story porch with fretwork on the main façade. On the south-facing side of the house is an ornate oriel window built out from the wall and resting on a bracket or corbel (a bracket projecting from the side of a wall and serving to support a cornice, the spring of an arch, a balustrade) and a two-story bay window.
The north side also has a two-story bay window and an intact rear open porch with four Ionic columns. At the rear of the house there is a second rear open porch and a second story balcony.
This was the first house built on the northern half of the 2nd Avenue side of the block. The building permit lists Healy as the original owner and the estimated cost of construction as $6,000. At the back of the lot is 1 ½ story hipped roof, stucco covered garage, built around 1915, which is also included in the historic district.
This house represents a pattern of building larger houses, filling most of the fifty foot width of the lot and close together, that characterized residential building in Minneapolis in the 1880s and 1890s.
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Notes
- ↑ Healy Block Walking Tour July 25, 1999 co-sponsored by the Minnesota Preservation Alliance and Zala Realty Author not listed. Pamphlet not copyrighted.
