Oaklands on 9th is a Richardsonian Romanesque brownstone designed by Harry Wild Jones in 1889. Here is how to read its downtown Minneapolis front.
Meet the people behind Oaklands on 9th: the 1889 builder who lived next door, architect Harry Wild Jones, and the crew who saved this Minneapolis brownstone.
From the designation plaque in the garden to the hallway history wall and restored antique lights — here’s the living history inside Oaklands on 9th.
Oaklands on 9th is a restored 1889 Minneapolis brownstone that survived a fire and three roofless winters. Here are the original details — a lone surviving door, the grand staircase, reclaimed oak — that made it through.
How an 1889 Harry Wild Jones brownstone in downtown Minneapolis survived fire and near-demolition to reopen as the Oaklands on 9th — and how you can stay in it.
The Oakland Apartments were built by Harry Wild Jones, an architect who designed more than 350 buildings, mostly in Minneapolis. Minnesota. Harry loved the Oaklands and was very proud that they were the first apartment buildings ever built in Minneapolis. BOOK now at the Oaklands Background Harry Wild Jones When Jones was born near the […]
