Milwaukee Ave, Mpls

Milwaukee Ave is a very cool little slice of history in Seward. Built as housing for railroad workers, mostly Scandinavians, the houses all have a similar mail-order design. The area was almost leveled by the city in the 70s, but was saved by preservationist residents.


The original houses all have a bit of Tudor style decoration:



I thought it was classic that the house below had the traditional red "Post" box. Is this a Minnesota thing or can you see it elsewere (Chicago and Seattle don't count as they have just as many scandinavians)? You probably have to blow this one up to see what I'm talking about...


On a lot of these houses they had to strip off the original brick and then use reclaimed industrial brick: