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        • Brick by Brick: Fixing Saarinen's Towers
        • Modernist Monuments: Minneapolis Post-War Places of Worship
        • Mid Mod Marvel: Mendota Modernism
        • Liturgy and Modernism: Frank Kacmarcik in Minnesota
        • 2025 Tour Day: Places of Worship
        • Going, Going Gone! The Oskam House
        • 2025 Fall Home Tour
        • Mid Mod Marvel: The Crooked House
        • Mid Mod Marvel: Masterfully Maintained Modernism
        • Going, Going Gone! Close Encounters
        • Spring 2025 Ackerman Events >
          • ONLINE Lecture: Mid-Century Modern Design Duo: Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman
          • Film Screening and Presentation: A Life and Legacy of Design: Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman
          • Book Launch and Presentation: Timeless Tapestries of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman
          • Reception with Laura Ackerman-Shaw
          • Weaving Studio Open House
        • Mid Mod Marvel: Graffunder Rewind
        • Mid Mod Marvel: One Owner Wonder!
        • Road Trip to Clear Lake: Ashera by Tom Olson; Going, Going Gone!
      • 2024 Events >
        • A Very Merry Mod Mixer 2024
        • 2024 Tour Day
        • 2024 Fall Home Tour
        • Friedman House Tour: Going, Going Gone!
        • Mod Mixer 2024
        • George Mastny Residence Open House
      • 2023 Events >
        • 2023 Tour Day
        • Open House: Frank Lloyd Wright's Willey House
        • 2023 Fall Home Tour
        • Pop Up Tour: St. John the Evangelist
        • Member Road Trip to the Bunker House
      • 2022 Events >
        • 2022 Tour Day
        • Joseph Michels in Saint Anthony Park: Going Going Gone!
        • Gustafson Residence, 1956; Going Going Gone!
        • Going Going Gone! John Howe in Rochester
        • 2022 Film Screening: GOFF
        • Tapping History: Midcentury Modernism in the South Lake Minnetonka Area
      • 2021 Events >
        • Cabin Culture Tour 2021
        • Going, Going, Gone! Broadbent Residence
        • Going, Going, Gone! Boynton Cutright House
        • Going, Going, Gone! Arthur Dickey in Minnesota
        • Mount Telemark Virtual Visit
        • Mini Film Fest: MN Modern Masters
      • 2020 Events >
        • 2020 Tour Day
        • Grabow House Going, Going, Gone!
        • 2020 Film Screening
        • Lisl Close and the Legacy of Modern Design
      • 2019 Events >
        • 2019 Tour Day
      • 2018 Events
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  • EXPLORE MODERNISM
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      • Five Modernist Cabins
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      • Idea Houses at Walker Art Center
      • Minoru Yamasaki in Minnesota
      • Tyrone Guthrie Theater
      • Arvonne Fraser Library
      • Peavey Plaza
      • Lorenzo Pete Williams
      • Lonnie Adkins
    • National Advocacy Themes >
      • '25 Nat'l Theme: Places of Worship
      • '24 Nat'l Theme: Corporate Campuses
      • '23 Nat'l Theme: Revisiting Urban Renewal
      • '22 Nat'l Theme: Shopping Malls
      • '21 Nat'l Theme: Travel & Leisure
      • '20 Nat'l Theme: 70s Turn 50
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BUILDING & SITES


MN Mod Icons

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Saint John's Abbey and University Church

Designer: Marcel Breuer (1902-1981)
Date: 1961
Location: Saint John’s Abbey, 31802 County Road 159, Collegeville, MN 56321

Northwestern National Life, ING

Designer: Minoru Yamasaki
Date:1965
Location: 20 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis MN

Riverside Plaza

Designer: Ralph Rapson
Date: 1973
Location: 1600 South 6th Street, Minneapolis MN 55454

Christ Church Lutheran

Designer: Eliel Saarinen, Eero Saarinen
Date: 1949, 1962
Location: Minneapolis MN 

Peavey Plaza

Designer: M. Paul Friedberg
Date: 1975
Location: Minneapolis MN 

Walker Art Center

Designer: Edward Larrabee Barnes, Mildred Friedman
Date: 1975
Location: Minneapolis MN 

Idea House I & II (demolished)

Designer: Walker Art Center
Date: 1941, 1947 (demolished 1961, 1969)
Location: 725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis MN 

Tyrone Guthrie Theater (demolished)

Designer: Ralph Rapson
Date: 1963, (demolished 2006)
Location: 725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis MN  

Sacred Spaces

  • The Kingdom Hall of Golden Valley Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses
  • Saint John’s Abbey and Church
  • St. Columba Catholic Church, 1327 Lafond Ave, St. Paul
  • Christ Church Lutheran
  • Mount Zion Temple
  • Saint Rose of Lima, Roseville
  • Saint Leo's Church
  • Temple of Aaron
  • Saint John the Baptist School, 703 Broad St. S., Mankato

Corporate Modernism

  • ​IDS Tower and Crystal Court
  • Northwestern National Life Building
  • 100 Washington Square
  • General Mills Corporate Campus
  • Prudential Insurance Building
  • 3M Corporate Campus
  • Zapp National Bank, 717-719 W. St. Germain St., St. Cloud

Public Buildings

  • Arvonne Frasier Library
  • Walker Art Center (1971)
  • Idea House I & Idea House II
  • Tyrone Guthrie Theater (1963)

Education

  • Carleton College
    • Cowling Gymnasium
    • Goodhue Hall
    • Myers Hall
    • Olin Hall of Science
    • Watson Hall
    • West Gymnasium
  • University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • University of Minnesota Duluth
  • Saint John's University + Saint John's Prep
  • College of St. Benedict
  • Macalester College

Landscapes

  • Peavey Plaza
  • Honeywell Plaza

Planned Communities

  • Riverside Plaza
  • University Grove
  • Jonathan, MN

Residences

  • Cabin Culture: Five Modernist Cabins
  • 265 Woodlawn Avenue, Saint Paul
  • ​1757 Fairview Avenue N , Falcon Heights (tour 2012 home)
  • 110 Melbourne Avenue SE , Minneapolis (tour 2012 home)
  • 375 Pelham Boulevard, Saint Paul (tour 2012 home)
  • 2224 Cedar Lake Parkway, Minneapolis (tour 2012 home)
  • 2441 Cedar Lane, Minneapolis (tour 2012 home)
  • 2304 Drew Avenue South, Minneapolis (tour 2012 home)
  • 3531 Basswood Road, Minneapolis (tour 2012 home)
  • 1520 Kaltern, Golden Valley (tour 2012 home)
  • 4038 Valentine Court, Arden Hills
  • David and Wanda Park House, 1501 Birchmont Dr., Bemidji
  • House in Lincoln Park Residential Historic District,  121 Bradley St., Mankato

DESIGNERS

  • ​Minoro Yamasaki in Minnesota
  • Elizabeth "Lisl" Scheu Close
  • Lonnie O. Adkins
  • Lorenzo D. "Pete" Williams
  • Arthur Dickey
  • Ralph Rapson

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