Edna S. Purcell House
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Edna S. Purcell house
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The east facade of the Edna S. Purcell (now Purcell–Cutts) House.
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| Location | 2328 Lake Place, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Coordinates | 44°57′33.61″N 93°18′1.73″W / 44.9593361°N 93.3004806°WCoordinates: 44°57′33.61″N 93°18′1.73″W / 44.9593361°N 93.3004806°W |
| Built | 1913 |
| Architect | Purcell & Elmslie |
| Architectural style | Prairie School |
| NRHP Reference # | 74001024 |
| Added to NRHP | October 29, 1974 |
The Edna S. Purcell house (now known as the Purcell–Cutts House) was designed by the firm of Purcell, Feick and Elmslie for architect William Purcell and his family in 1913. It is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The dwelling is a notable example of Prairie School architecture, featuring a long, narrow floor plan that disregards Victorian concepts about room divisions. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is now part of the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art and has been extensively restored. The museum conducts tours on the second weekend of every month.
The “Edna Purcell dwelling,” as it was referred to in its original project files, was built in 1913. William Purcell and partner George Elmslie collaborated on the house, designed for a narrow, 50- by 150-foot city lot near Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis, Minnesota; construction costs totaled $14,500. While George Feick, Jr., appears as a partner on the project, he was not involved in the house’s design and left the partnership that year.
William Purcell and his wife, Edna, conceived plans for a permanent home in 1911, while they were residing in an apartment building on Humboldt Avenue in Minneapolis. Having adopted their son James that year, they needed a new space for their daily needs that also accommodated their increased social activity and showcased the architectural firm’s expertise.
The house was built at 2328 Lake Place, near the residence that Purcell and Feick had built for William Purcell’s mother, Catherine Gray, on Lake of the Isles Parkway in 1907. With financial assistance from William Purcell’s father, Charles A. Purcell, the firm was able to realize the project. The Purcell family moved into the house at Christmas, 1913. In 1916, a decline in commissions induced Purcell to take a position as advertising manager at Alexander Brothers Leather and Belting Company in Philadelphia. By 1918, his family had all moved to Philadelphia, and the house on Lake Place was put up for sale.
In 1919, Anson Bailey Cutts, Sr. (1866–1949), a chief rate clerk with the Great Northern Railway, purchased the Edna S. Purcell house. Cutts and his wife, Edna Browning Stokes (1875–1976), lived in the house with their son, Anson B. Cutts, Jr. (1905–1985). Though he left the house to attend Yale and pursue his career, Anson Jr. returned to the house in 1962 to aid his widowed mother when her health was failing. He continued to live there after her death in 1976. In 1985, Cutts bequeathed the house to the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, parent organization of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. It now is part of the museum’s collection.
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