The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-04
building and the development

HOME building and the development
ii of several comparatively new
residence sections will be strong
feature of Minneapolis real estate his
tory for 1905. While it will be known
pre- eminently as manufacturing cen
" it's home side. The fine school facI-
flies and the park privileges, which are
being constantly extended in all parts
of tie system, have been able accessor'
les to the development Of the manufac-
turing opportunities OF M1nneapolls,
10 thoroly advertised the fact that Min.
neaDolis is known abroad as a city OF
homes. art
A characteristic Of home life in Min
peapolis has always been it's tendency
e develop in clusters or neighb?rh ss.5,:
from the way the real estate business
additions add up to iSo4, the growth
lad Been more Of the alling:out process.
Vacant blocks and strings Of empty lots
which lay between houses were disposed
ting and exploitation Of additions made
up Of all til e way from block to sew
eral hundred acres.
To Boom Properties.
Some Of these new additions have had
fairly good start and others were bare
~ prepared for the market before win
intimations Of spring, the real estate
agents W no are handling these different
settlements will strain every effort to
boom their properties and fill them UP
rapidly.
It was only within three years that
Minneapolis brokers began to realize
that, as in every other line Of merchan-
disc. real estate sold better when put
up in packages, as it were. Instead Of
selling the virgin soil to customers,
leaving it to the purchasers to level or
fill in and build without system or rule,
the brokers or owners discovered: that
their goods went better when blocks
were graded uniformly, trees and side
walks put in, and sewer and water con-
nections made. Then followed: the ,es-
tablishment of the building line and !
the minimum Of value for the cost Of
houses to: be built. -,
build up neighborhoods, which have
been given distinctive names and often
times which have certain distinctive
stvle of building. Tt is such sections
that are to be developed this season
and the result will eventually be lot
Of little towns within the limits Of the
big city. Tt has happened that, to make
housekeeping and life easy, small bust
ness centers spring up where the houses
have clustered, forming a diminutive
and complete village. The drug store,
meat shop, grocery, confectionery, bake
shop and newsstand, and often g barber
shop and tailoring establishment, are
installed in recognition Of the demand
and they get most Of the Nshort Or
ders' from their heighborhoods.
Sunnyside a Pioneer.
= Sunnyside is generally recognized az
the pioneer in the class of residence
sections referred to. Lowry Hill led
among the exclusive districts and Ken
wood was representative on account of
its former isolation. Sunnyside is prao.
tically filed up and is established and
Kenwood is thickly settled. Green 5
various additions then became popular
+ and they are taken as rapidly as opened
up. G. D. Dayton s REINFORCEMENT Of
the Blaisdell addition was one Of the
first to be marketed in Hpackage
form. His agent, W. L. Badger, last
fall had nearly the. entire section
graded and prepared for quick build
Eng, and he will continue to develop the
7egion up to the standard already set.
Other additions are Lynnhurst; Wal
ton Park, the pioneer in North Mime
npolis; Island Park, originated by the
late I. G: Seeley; Kenwood Knoll, being
na5keted by John g. Allen; Columbis