Contents
Prologue: A New World
1. The Modern Age
Midcentury Modern Houses, 1938–1950
Benjamin and Gertrude Lippincott House
Gerald and Ruth Buetow House
Dr. Clarence E. and Ruth Arlander House
2. Corporations and Commerce
Midcentury Modern Houses, 1952–1954
S. Pearl and Millicent Elam House
Dr. Harvey Nelson House
3. Entertaining on the Road
Midcentury Modern Houses, 1955
Donald and Hilda Haarstick House
June Halvorson Alworth (later June and Robert Starkey) House
4. Architecture of the Public Realm
Midcentury Modern Houses, 1956–1957
George and Annirene Buck House
William and Frances Shepherd House
5. Modern Faith
Midcentury Modern Houses, 1958–1961
Alcoa “Care-free” House
Benjamin Gingold House
Richard and Dorothy Babcock House
6. The Midcentury Home
Epilogue: The Midcentury Legacy
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Larry Millett, a Minneapolis native, spent much of his career as a writer, reporter, and editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press.¿In 1985 he became the newspaper’s first architecture critic, a post he held until his retirement in 2002. His many books include Minnesota’s Own: Preserving Our Grand Homes and Once There Were Castles: Lost Mansions and Estates of the Twin Cities (Minnesota, 2011).
