St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-13
SOME ST YLES IN HOMES.
The Compact Tenement Grows in Beauty
and in Favor.
YEARS POSSIBILITIES.
Minneap- lis Just Begius to Develop.
The Beautiful Lake Suburbs
Building Up.

1.-THE year 1889 is opening with very
good Indications that there will e
great number of nice residences built
in Minneapnlis before it clnSns." said an
architect when questioned yesterday by
GLOBE man.
well, as to style it is hard TO say
exactly as to that. yet. The very eX-
rensive residences built ty wealthy
men will. l think. be in the Roman
esque style. The brown stone so much
used here. is Just the material for the
grand. old castle-like houses. and then,
too. Minneapolis has many famous
sites. yet unoccupied, for such build
| in"S'
''What is your idea as to the craze
that seams To he developing in the
Twin Cities for the better class of tene-
ment houses and rows?"
''Wp will have more and more of them
| from now on. IT is lust part of the
growth of every city. The first ten
dency. as you knew. of a city is to
spread. and during that time tenements
are little built. Then there comes a
STAGE IN the growth when the city is
tuilt I'm from within and made com
pact. Minneapolis is Just in that stage
now. Look" nnlnting ont tine great
| window IN Hennenin. where to the
r'"ht and left is view to be eqnaled
in few cities. ..see all those spaces there.
In few years they will all be filled up
with buildings, hut there will he no
more single residences on any of them
this side of Twelfth str eft. There will
10. though. great many of these rows.
They are becoming more popular
yearly. and manv rich men are plan
ming to live in them during the winter
| months. and have their homes at Lake
Minnetonka. Whv. Just the other day
! one of the richest men in Minneapolis,
| who owns one of the finest residences in
| the citv told mo he thought he wOnld
| nut ND nice tenement and live in the
| corner anartmont himself and rent the
| rest of the house. He would then sell
his residence and live the most of the
year in his summer home at the lake."
'sDO Won consider the tenement house
as homelille as the othnrr esidences"'
| 'sWell. that's according to PERSONS
| notions of hnme-like. This cold climate
| is an argument i'm favor of it. Some
peOnie think to have things hOmelike
they must have farm a',eut their house.
but here. where the door yard is snow
bank during the time the family is not
at the lakes, for all purpnses the row
covering all the space is just as well,
anu Il 9Iett utdi IIfpT0 tcuIIUIUitdi iOI
they are heated much more easily than
other residences. A great manv people
| live i'm the tenements because they are
cheaper and nearer their business. and
they cannot afford to have homes of
their own: bnt great many more live
in them out of preference in the winter
time"
"Who are going to put ND residences
! this year. and are there many who in
tend to build this year?''
Yes. indeed. there will be a great
many nice residences put up in the
suburbs this year. but YOU know peonle
never like to have them talked about
until it is certainty. They generally
plan for a home of their own for about
two years before it begins TO material
iZe. and it becomes rather sacred sub
ject to them. Wealthy men each year
become more willing to put large sums
ct mOnev into Their homes i'm Minneap0-
lis. and the result is. many and beauti-
full as her residences are. that parts of
the CITY has ONLY begun to develop. The
dav for the architect in Minneapolis is
only just beginning to dawn. | can
say. though. that no CITY has on the
whole more substantially-built resi-
dences. and the ventilation and plumb
ing are not equaled in any city in the
United States. A great deal of atteH-
ton is being paid to ventilation and
every thing that will add to health"
Another architect. on being ques-
eXtravagant growth in the residence
portion this year that some prophesied.
but that. in the nature of things, there
were bound to 60 up more residences in
Minneapolis this year than any previous
wear in its growth.
''In ten years from now, if things
progress as they have during the past
ten. and every indication is that they
will, the suburbs about Cedar Lake.
Lake Calhoun and Lake Harriet will
have as fine residences as are seen on
Drexel boulevard in Chicago. and the
natural beauty of the region will make
a much more beautiful suburb. If
there was cable or motor line out there
now it would be the home of a great
many people who desire above all
cannot afford to live nearer own,
1t will be the future resistance
portion of the city and all it needs now
to grow it a motor. People will build
residences there who cannot afford
winter home in the city and a summer
house at Lake Minnetonka. They will
combine both at the lakes in our sub
urbs, which are really not very far from
the business portion of the city. BY the
way. too, there are great many fine
substantial residences going up ui : nj n. ,
Lake Minnetonka this year, as there
has been for several years past. think
eventually great many business men. !,
OF Minneapolis will live there tthae wear
round. Mlnneaprr..rs has every advant-
age in 5ne .,urld to become the most
Deaut'I" city in the world, and believe
we ~,s1i live to see it as such.