Speaking of forgetting things... how old IS my house?

[dreamshark]

For years I've been telling people that Dream Park was built in 1916, because that's what I remember. But I just looked up my house on Zillow (an interesting exercise, btw) and according to them it was built in 1912. Hmmm. I google my address and find a few other listings for my house in real estate databases. They differ WILDLY in estimated square footage (1985 vs 2995!) but both agree on the build date of 1912. Does anybody know how to look that up in the definitive public record?  

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[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Is it? I sort of thought there was a Rice Lake in St. Paul, but this one is in Mpls. Just north of Lake Amelia. Which might be an older name for L.Hiawatha, judging by the location.

Oh, fine, I'll google. Okay, my map sense was off one click. Rice and Amelia Lakes became Hiawatha and Nokomis, respectively. In that case, what the heck is Mother Lake? It's south of Rice and Amelia and bigger than both of them put together!

Left as an exercise for the reader.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Mother Lake is on the SE corner of Cedar & 62 Crosstown. It's got a large ring of cat tails around it, suggesting it once was bigger.

K.