Neils House (Minneapolis, MN) is up for sale!
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They lead to sleeping lofts that seem to have been added for children...And what’s that ladder above the desk in #15?
Zillow only has a fraction of the photos that the "Spacecrafting" site has... I tried the SC site on Chrome, Safari, and Firefox on my (updated) Mac and they all work, so maybe its a cookies or firewall setting that's blocking it for you guys?
I notice they've also done a good job hiding a ductless mini split system... Picture #39 on the Spacecrafting site you can see a built-in vent above the closet door.
http://tours.spacecrafting.com/n-1vzm#&gid=1&pid=39
(The specific photo isn't linking or hostable either.... Clunky stuff)
A photo of the house by Dave Anderson prompted me to wonder if the dominant gabled roofs were a contextual response; what do neighboring houses look like ?
A quick tour of the neighborhood via Google Street View yielded these scenes. The house immediately to the west of Neils has a prominent red-tiled hipped roof,
while other nearby houses exhibit a variety of styles with no cohesive theme.
Perhaps the most notable feature of these streets is the lush vegetation . . .


Perhaps the most interesting local house is found several doors west of the subject property.

Traveling east from there, toward the Neils house:




Immediately across the street from Neils is this charmless box:

Looking west:

About-face, continuing to the intersection with Burnham Rd, and a bit east from there:


A quick tour of the neighborhood via Google Street View yielded these scenes. The house immediately to the west of Neils has a prominent red-tiled hipped roof,
while other nearby houses exhibit a variety of styles with no cohesive theme.
Perhaps the most notable feature of these streets is the lush vegetation . . .


Perhaps the most interesting local house is found several doors west of the subject property.

Traveling east from there, toward the Neils house:




Immediately across the street from Neils is this charmless box:

Looking west:

About-face, continuing to the intersection with Burnham Rd, and a bit east from there:


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Just a short walk from Lake of the Isles is Lake Calhoun, largest of 22 lakes in Minneapolis, named after John C. Calhoun, early USA Secretary of War and slave-owner. It was decided that he should not be memorialized because of his slave ownership (after about 180 years), so the name was reverted to the Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska (be-DAY' mah-KA' SKA), now named after a French bathroom facility.
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Re: Neils House (Minneapolis, MN) is up for sale!
The living room rug is forceful.
Re: Neils House (Minneapolis, MN) is up for sale!
Um . . . yes.
W A Storrer's photo is taken from just the same angle as the Sotheby's photo, but from further away. The new photo presents a unique image of the house and its roof.
This is the first I've heard of a mezzanine space. A ladder can be seen in a bedroom photo. It turns out to be a suspended bed platform. I wonder when that was constructed.
https://www.dwell.com/article/minneapol ... e-a8391589
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W A Storrer's photo is taken from just the same angle as the Sotheby's photo, but from further away. The new photo presents a unique image of the house and its roof.
This is the first I've heard of a mezzanine space. A ladder can be seen in a bedroom photo. It turns out to be a suspended bed platform. I wonder when that was constructed.
https://www.dwell.com/article/minneapol ... e-a8391589
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Re: Neils House (Minneapolis, MN) is up for sale!
The photo with the flat screen TV was originally the maid's bedroom. The photo showing the washer and dryer is the service hall passing by the TV room.
How I wish I had $3.4M to spare. Beautiful house in the very best neighborhood in The Cities east of Lake Minnetonka.
How I wish I had $3.4M to spare. Beautiful house in the very best neighborhood in The Cities east of Lake Minnetonka.
Re: Neils House (Minneapolis, MN) is up for sale!
The blocks of text hiding parts of the photos is a thoughtless flaw---but there are a couple of delicious shots of the living room.
The 42-inch wide doors to the terrace are a nice median between the usual narrower french doors, and patio sliders ?


photos © 2020 Spacecrafting Photography for Lakes Sotheby's International Realty
The 42-inch wide doors to the terrace are a nice median between the usual narrower french doors, and patio sliders ?


photos © 2020 Spacecrafting Photography for Lakes Sotheby's International Realty
"As a former copy editor, I always feel I am defending the person whose name is being misspelled, not attacking the person who misspells it." Ronald Alan McCrea (1943-2019)
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Re: Neils House (Minneapolis, MN) is up for sale!
I cannot be sure, but I would bet that the lights on the steps into the living room are a recent addition.