Levi C. Robinson House, 3121 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Address: | 3121 Park Avenue |
Neighborhood/s: | Central, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
City/locality- State/province | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
County- State/province: | Hennepin County, Minnesota |
State/province: | Minnesota |
Country: | United States |
Year built: | 1906 |
Primary Style: | Colonial Revival |
Secondary Style: | American Four-Square |
Builder: | J. O. Stenvig |
First Owner: | Levi C. and Frieda Robinson |
Part of the Site: | Park Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
(44.945952° N, 93.2651753° WLatitude: 44°56′45.427″N
Longitude: 93°15′54.631″W)
INTRODUCTION
According to Minneapolis building permits, Levi C. and Frieda Robinson commissioned Contractor J. O. Stenvig to build this Colonial Revival home in 1906. Construction was completed in August at a total cost of $4,675.
ORIGINAL OWNER
Levi C. Robinson was a successful Salesman employed with the Bardwell & Robinson Company, a leading manufacturer of sash, doors, and interior finishings, including decorative mouldings and woodwork, built-in buffets and bookcases, and other fine architectural elements. The firm long played an important part in Minneapolis's growth and material development and its high-quality products could be found in some of the finest residential and commercial structures of the day, including the West Hotel, Andrus Building, New York Life Building, Lumber Exchange, Milwaukee Depot, and others. Levi Robinson was the son of Charles N. Robinson and the grandson of Bardwell & Robinson Founder and President, Sumner C. Robinson.
Sumner C. Robinson formed the notable business in 1857 with Charles S. Bardwell, owner of the historic Bardwell-Ferrant House at 2500 Portland Avenue. Upon Sumner Robinson's death, his son (Levi's father), Charles N. Robinson, succeeded him in the business as President. According to the book History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest, "Charles N. Robinson was an alert, progressive and enterprising business man, and while he entered upon a business already established, he displayed a most progressive spirit in meeting the conditions of the times and in enlarging his interests according to modern commercial ideals and methods." [1]
Levi Robinson continued in the family tradition and, at the time he resided at 3121 Park Avenue, was employed by Bardwell & Robinson and well known in the Minneapolis social circles. Levi and Frieda lived at this address until 1918.
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1. History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; Chicago-Minneapolis, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co, 1923. Pages 409-410, 413-414