Tours scheduled from noon to 4 pm on Sundays September 9, September 23 and October 7
Tours are free and open to the public.
The Minneapolis Parks Legacy Society (M.P.L.S.), in cooperation with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, is conducting tours of the Theodore Wirth House (3954 Bryant Avenue South) this fall.
The house was built for Theodore Wirth, Minneapolis' longest-tenured (1906-1935) park superintendent. In 1905 Charles Loring, on behalf of the Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners, recruited Theodore Wirth to become superintendent of the Minneapolis Park system. Wirth agreed under the condition that the Park Board build a home for him and his family in a city park.
The house was completed in 1910 and tucked into a hillside in Lyndale Farmstead Park. The upper levels became their family home, with the lower level containing Wirth's office and design space.
The Wirth Home and Administration Building, as it is officially named, was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 because of Wirth's impact on Minneapolis parks and its influence in planning for municipal, state and national parks across the country. The years when the Wirth family lived there (1910-1946) were designated as its period of significance. M.P.L.S. has furnished the house with period artifacts, some of which were owned by Wirth himself.
Stop on in from noon-4 pm on any of these Sundays: September 9, September 23 and October 7.
Group tours are available by appointment through September 30.
M.P.L.S. will also schedule separate individual, group and student tours through September 30. Please contact Joan Berthiaume at 612-275-8884 or joanberthiaume@msn.com for details.
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