Strangely enough, the abstract doesn't actually say when the house was built - it's just about transferring the deed to the property back and forth. Which happened remarkably often between 1856 (when the property was platted) and 1920. Somewhere between 1911 and 1916 the mortgage value jumped up to $3,500, which is about right for a substantial house of that period. So I guess that's where I got 1916 from, but the house might well have been built in 1912. That's when the alley went in, according to the abstract.
Man, the people who built this house had an amazingly hard time holding onto it. The property shuttled back and forth between Kelly and Holmes more times than I can count, and went into tax default over and over again. The first few times that happened it eventually ended up back with the Kelly/Holmes syndicate, but eventually they disappear. The Bracket family had it for a while. Wonder if that's the same family that Bracket Park is named for? It's hard to tell who, if anybody, was actually LIVING here during any of this.
And here's a map of south Minneapolis in 1931. Amazing what you'll find tucked away in these old abstracts. Okay, I recognize Lakes Harriet, Calhoun and Diamond - but what's with Rice, Amelia, Mother and Duck Lakes?
Oh, look! Here's the property abstract!
Man, the people who built this house had an amazingly hard time holding onto it. The property shuttled back and forth between Kelly and Holmes more times than I can count, and went into tax default over and over again. The first few times that happened it eventually ended up back with the Kelly/Holmes syndicate, but eventually they disappear. The Bracket family had it for a while. Wonder if that's the same family that Bracket Park is named for? It's hard to tell who, if anybody, was actually LIVING here during any of this.
And here's a map of south Minneapolis in 1931. Amazing what you'll find tucked away in these old abstracts. Okay, I recognize Lakes Harriet, Calhoun and Diamond - but what's with Rice, Amelia, Mother and Duck Lakes?