Bardwell-Ferrant House

The Bardwell - Ferrant House is a residential building in the Phillips West neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was built for its first owner, Charles Bardwell in 1883 on Park Avenue in 1800, originally in the Queen Anne style. The second homeowner Emil Ferrant it was remodel in 1890 neumaurischen style. This style was popular at that time. The Norwegian-born architect Carl F. Struck (1842-1912) added two onion domes and a wraparound porch with turned columns, S-shaped arcs and deep- toned stained glass windows. 1898, the house was moved to its present location at Portland Avenue South in 2500 to make the construction of a bank building space.

The building incorporated in 1984 in the National Register of Historic Places. The nomination was based on that it is a significant example of the local interest in exotic architectural styles at the end of the 19th century. Carl Struck was the only architect of Norwegian descent, who applied this architecture in Minneapolis. From Struck spring, the draft for the Dania Hall was born in 1885, which was recorded in the register in 1974, but was destroyed by a fire in 2000. In the style neumaurischen few houses built entirely; rather it was practice, the characteristics of this architectural style of building on buildings, which had a simpler style. The Bardwell - Ferrant House is an unusually picturesque application of this practice and therefore of significant local importance.

In 1986 the house was bought by the architect Mary Lou Maxwell and Jean and renovated. This divided it into four apartments. At this time the building structure was healthy, although some manual work were necessary, including a new heating and new lines for electricity, water and sewage. Thieves had stolen some of the stained glass windows and some of the mantelpieces. After the renovation, three of the four apartments maisonettes. A large part of the outer lining was renewed and the house was neugestrichen in mauve. The decorative elements were cream-colored and the metal panels painted on the turret in other colors, which harmonized with the windows.

Currently (August 2008) the house is up for sale again. The interior of the building was destroyed. A spindle pole and a porch railings are broken and several of the windows either cracked, smashed or partially missing. Three of the four fireplace mantels were torn from the walls. Some of the rainwater downpipes of copper was stolen by metal thieves. According to the broker, the house can be obtained, but substantial renovation works are required.