Every Lowry Hill News story tagged Historic Preservation.

Land use is the recurring flashpoint in Lowry Hill, a neighborhood of Victorian and Prairie-style homes where even a modest multi-unit proposal draws scrutiny under the city's built-form rules and the 2040 comprehensive plan.

Lowry Hill and Lowry Hill East share a name and a founder but sit on opposite sides of Hennepin Avenue as a mansion district and one of the densest neighborhoods in Minneapolis.

A longtime resident thanks Kenwood Community School, the Lowry Hill Neighborhood Association and the neighborhood's volunteers.

The Charles J. Martin House at 1300 Mount Curve Avenue, a 14,300-square-foot mansion on nearly an acre of Lowry Hill, last carried an asking price of $5.995 million through the Berg Larsen Group.

The Burnham Road bridge in Kenwood reopened after a two-day closure that began June 2, while crews continue a concrete-street rehabilitation on Sheridan Avenue South, 21st Street West and part of 24th Street West.

The Mount Curve Condominiums at 1770 Bryant Ave. S., a four-story, 68-unit building finished in 1968, brought owner-occupied apartment living to a Lowry Hill block defined by turn-of-the-century mansions.

A few blocks of Mount Curve Avenue in Lowry Hill hold a working catalog of how wealthy Minneapolis built between 1900 and 1910, from Renaissance Revival to Prairie School.

A study has steered the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board away from moving the Bde Maka Ska boat launch and sailing center across the lake, and the board is now studying a renovation of the existing northeast-shore facility instead.

Lowry Hill's standing as one of Minneapolis's costliest neighborhoods traces to a streetcar-era boom that filled the ridge with mansions, most of which still stand.

Lowry Hill is bounded by Interstate 394 on the north, Interstate 94 and Hennepin Avenue on the east, 22nd Street on the south, and Lake of the Isles Parkway with Logan and Morgan avenues on the west.

The Wedge Co-op began in 1974 with Whittier neighbors who wanted whole foods without a long trip, opened in a Franklin Avenue apartment, and moved to its Lyndale Avenue home in 1979.

The farmers market keeps going through the cold on select Saturdays.

The Walker Art Center's cinema keeps a year-round film calendar a short walk from Lowry Hill, with current screenings ranging from Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" to Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep."

Council Member Elizabeth Shaffer, sworn in to the Ward 7 seat on Jan. 5, 2026, now runs the office that handles constituent casework for Lowry Hill, the Wedge, East Isles, Cedar-Isles-Dean, Bryn Mawr, Kenwood and part of downtown.

The shoreline of Lake of the Isles records more than a century of decisions, from the late-1800s dredging that turned a marsh into open water to recent shoreline restoration.

The Lowry Hill East Residential Historic District preserves streetcar-era homes on the 2300 and 2400 blocks of Aldrich, Bryant and Colfax Avenues South.

The Wedge developed in the 1880s along Thomas Lowry's streetcar line, and the density it set then still defines the neighborhood.

In June 1975, the homeowner-dominated Lowry Hill association opened membership and board seats to renters.

Justin Schaefer's vintage shop opened Oct. 8 in the castellated former White Castle at 3252 Lyndale Ave. S.

A November program co-presented with Northrop revives postmodern dance landmarks for one night.

Lowry Hill is named for Thomas Lowry, the streetcar magnate who built the Twin City Rapid Transit Company.

Lake of the Isles owes its shape to decades of Park Board dredging, a 1919 ban on landing canoes on its islands and Depression-era stonework still visible from the parkway.

A 1906 yellow-brick mansion on Mount Curve Avenue, built for brewer Charles Gluek, is one of Lowry Hill's better-preserved examples of Italian Renaissance design.

Groveland Terrace shared in the Lowry Hill real-estate boom of the 1890s and early 1900s, lined with grand houses built to the same standard as neighboring Mount Curve Avenue.

A $50,000 donation from the Minneapolis Parks Foundation is helping fund the design phase of the rehabilitation of Loring Park's Berger Fountain, the city's "dandelion" fountain.

A new $819,000 state grant will fund the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board's restoration of about 2.6 miles of eroding, turf-dominated shoreline across the city's lakes, including Lake of the Isles.

Greg Koch, co-founder of Stone Brewing, has won Minneapolis Planning Commission approval to redevelop Bryn Mawr's long-vacant Fruen Mill into a hotel, restaurant and spa.

Lake of the Isles Parkway, with Logan and Morgan avenues, forms Lowry Hill's western boundary and gives the neighborhood direct access to the Chain of Lakes.

The Minneapolis City Council adopted the 2025 Mapping Housekeeping Amendment on Sept. 11, correcting zoning-map errors catalogued after the 2040 plan took effect.

A 1910 Prairie School mansion designed by architect George W. Maher stands at 1324 Mount Curve Ave. on Lowry Hill, among a ridge of European revival houses.

Lowry Hill's northeastern edge runs up against the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

The Cedar-Isles plan, approved by the Park Board on July 5, 2023, sets a 20-to-30-year vision for Lake of the Isles, Cedar Lake and the land around them.

Founded in 1946, the Lowry Hill Neighborhood Association is one of the oldest neighborhood organizations in Minneapolis.

Lowry Hill's streetscape of broad lawns, boulevard trees and well-spaced houses was set by 1900, when the streetcar boom filled the ridge with the homes of the wealthy.

The Walker Art Center's form on the edge of Lowry Hill, from Edward Larrabee Barnes's 1971 building to the 2005 Herzog & de Meuron expansion, is treated as part of the museum's argument.

The Elizabeth C. Quinlan House at 1711 Emerson Avenue South was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 25, 2012, honoring a co-founder of the Young-Quinlan store.

The city was the first major U.S. city to eliminate exclusive single-family zoning, a change tested and sustained in court.

Built for a member of the Donaldson department-store family, the nearly 9,600-square-foot house is one of Lowry Hill's finest.

Decades after opening, the park beside the Walker continues to reinvent itself.

For one Lowry Hill homeowner, living in a century-old mansion means being a caretaker as much as a resident.
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