Lumber Titan’s Minneapolis Home on the market for 1.595 million dollars

James E. Stewart – George Stewart’s son, founder of Stewart Lumber (now Shaw / Stewart Lumber Co.) – has built several notable houses during his life.

This includes a gem in the middle of the century of 1961, located next to Bde Maka Ska and the Minikahda Country Club, built with her first wife, Estelle B. “Brownie” Stewart.

At the time, the couple lived next to it in another house they had built. But they wanted something more modern for property and hired Newton E. Griffith, an architect at the middle of the century, to design the house.

Now that the house is on the market for 1.595 million dollars.

Griffith began his career with the firm at the national level Thorshov & Cerny before training Peterson, Clark & ​​Griffith with two colleagues in 1960. The California style house in California in California was one of the first committees of the company, and Griffith’s Own House was one of the best houses in the architecture magazine in Record magazine in 1962.

The Stewart house has many characteristics of the architecture in the middle of the century: vaulted ceilings with exposed beams, large windows, a stone chimney wall and an open floor plan. But that also reflects the owner, who knew one thing or two on the wood.

Most of the 5,000 square feet rooms and a floor have a wooden ceiling, woodwork or both. And there are several distinctive species in the house, including cypress Pecky in the primary chamber, a wood often described as a work of art due to its model of burrows or “tingling”. There is also a tight grain hickory shagbark in the large room and the lower level rooms.

The house has a huge kitchen ideal for the entertaining and large holidays, which we would imagine that the Stewarts made good use before their divorce from 1967.