Excerpted from "Once there were Castles, Lost mansions of the Twin Cities" by Larry Millett:
The distinctive mutlitowered Tourtellette house is among the most elusive of the Twin Cities lost mansions. With its four-story bell-roofed tower posing above the south end of Loring Park, the house was certainly a neighborhood landmark. The mansion, originally owned by Frederick H. Boardman, built of red brick and light-colored stone, mixed colonial revival, Classical, and Victorian elements. The taller of the two towers culminated in an open belfry like those often found on schools of the time. It's likely that the house was designed by Edward Stebbins, an architect who lived near Loring park. In 1892 Dr. Jacob Tourtellotte and his wife, Harriet, who had just moved to Minneapolis, bought the house and remodeled it. One of the enhancements was a gracefully curved staircase with ornate iron railings that led down the sidewalk on fifteenth street.
Tourtellotte, born in Connecticut, served as a ship's surgeon during the Civil War. In 1870 he and Harriet, a dierct descendant of Benedict Arnold, moved to Winona, Minnesota, near where one of Tourtellotte's brothers lived. Tourtellotte never practiced medicine in Winona. Instead he prospered in banking and real estate even as he and Harriet were stalked by tragedy. Their oldest daughter succumbed to scarlet fever as an infant, while their only child, also a girl, died at age ten as a result of eating a tainted hot dog.
in Minneapolis the Toutellottes became active philanthropists, donating to many causes and staging benefits at their mansion. Here is how the Minneapolis Tribune described an event at the house in 1895: "From the dining room table with its centerpiece of La France roses and ropes of smilax and its decorations of pink ribbons and candles, coffee, ices and cakes were served. Frappees and bonbons were passed from small tables upstairs and down, where there were numerous assisting hostesses."
When Tourtellotte died in 1912, The Tribune said he "never missed and opportunity to do a charitable act" A special funeral train took his body to Winona where he was buried beside his lost daughters. Two years later Harriet donated $125,000 to build the Tourtellotte Memorial Deaconess Home at Asbury Hospital in Minneapolis. The building, now used as a library for North Central University, still stands. Harriet died in 1919. The mansion was razed three years later to make way for what is now the Loring Park office Building at 430 oak Grove Street.
The distinctive mutlitowered Tourtellette house is among the most elusive of the Twin Cities lost mansions. With its four-story bell-roofed tower posing above the south end of Loring Park, the house was certainly a neighborhood landmark. The mansion, originally owned by Frederick H. Boardman, built of red brick and light-colored stone, mixed colonial revival, Classical, and Victorian elements. The taller of the two towers culminated in an open belfry like those often found on schools of the time. It's likely that the house was designed by Edward Stebbins, an architect who lived near Loring park. In 1892 Dr. Jacob Tourtellotte and his wife, Harriet, who had just moved to Minneapolis, bought the house and remodeled it. One of the enhancements was a gracefully curved staircase with ornate iron railings that led down the sidewalk on fifteenth street.
Tourtellotte, born in Connecticut, served as a ship's surgeon during the Civil War. In 1870 he and Harriet, a dierct descendant of Benedict Arnold, moved to Winona, Minnesota, near where one of Tourtellotte's brothers lived. Tourtellotte never practiced medicine in Winona. Instead he prospered in banking and real estate even as he and Harriet were stalked by tragedy. Their oldest daughter succumbed to scarlet fever as an infant, while their only child, also a girl, died at age ten as a result of eating a tainted hot dog.
in Minneapolis the Toutellottes became active philanthropists, donating to many causes and staging benefits at their mansion. Here is how the Minneapolis Tribune described an event at the house in 1895: "From the dining room table with its centerpiece of La France roses and ropes of smilax and its decorations of pink ribbons and candles, coffee, ices and cakes were served. Frappees and bonbons were passed from small tables upstairs and down, where there were numerous assisting hostesses."
When Tourtellotte died in 1912, The Tribune said he "never missed and opportunity to do a charitable act" A special funeral train took his body to Winona where he was buried beside his lost daughters. Two years later Harriet donated $125,000 to build the Tourtellotte Memorial Deaconess Home at Asbury Hospital in Minneapolis. The building, now used as a library for North Central University, still stands. Harriet died in 1919. The mansion was razed three years later to make way for what is now the Loring Park office Building at 430 oak Grove Street.
Excerpted from "Once there were Castles, Lost mansions of the Twin Cities" by Larry Millett:
The distinctive mutlitowered Tourtellette house is among the most elusive of the Twin Cities lost mansions. With its four-story bell-roofed tower posing above the south end of Loring Park, the house was certainly a neighborhood landmark. The mansion, originally owned by Frederick H. Boardman, built of red brick and light-colored stone, mixed colonial revival, Classical, and Victorian elements. The taller of the two towers culminated in an open belfry like those often found on schools of the time. It's likely that the house was designed by Edward Stebbins, an architect who lived near Loring park. In 1892 Dr. Jacob Tourtellotte and his wife, Harriet, who had just moved to Minneapolis, bought the house and remodeled it. One of the enhancements was a gracefully curved staircase with ornate iron railings that led down the sidewalk on fifteenth street.
Tourtellotte, born in Connecticut, served as a ship's surgeon during the Civil War. In 1870 he and Harriet, a dierct descendant of Benedict Arnold, moved to Winona, Minnesota, near where one of Tourtellotte's brothers lived. Tourtellotte never practiced medicine in Winona. Instead he prospered in banking and real estate even as he and Harriet were stalked by tragedy. Their oldest daughter succumbed to scarlet fever as an infant, while their only child, also a girl, died at age ten as a result of eating a tainted hot dog.
in Minneapolis the Toutellottes became active philanthropists, donating to many causes and staging benefits at their mansion. Here is how the Minneapolis Tribune described an event at the house in 1895: "From the dining room table with its centerpiece of La France roses and ropes of smilax and its decorations of pink ribbons and candles, coffee, ices and cakes were served. Frappees and bonbons were passed from small tables upstairs and down, where there were numerous assisting hostesses."
When Tourtellotte died in 1912, The Tribune said he "never missed and opportunity to do a charitable act" A special funeral train took his body to Winona where he was buried beside his lost daughters. Two years later Harriet donated $125,000 to build the Tourtellotte Memorial Deaconess Home at Asbury Hospital in Minneapolis. The building, now used as a library for North Central University, still stands. Harriet died in 1919. The mansion was razed three years later to make way for what is now the Loring Park office Building at 430 oak Grove Street.
The distinctive mutlitowered Tourtellette house is among the most elusive of the Twin Cities lost mansions. With its four-story bell-roofed tower posing above the south end of Loring Park, the house was certainly a neighborhood landmark. The mansion, originally owned by Frederick H. Boardman, built of red brick and light-colored stone, mixed colonial revival, Classical, and Victorian elements. The taller of the two towers culminated in an open belfry like those often found on schools of the time. It's likely that the house was designed by Edward Stebbins, an architect who lived near Loring park. In 1892 Dr. Jacob Tourtellotte and his wife, Harriet, who had just moved to Minneapolis, bought the house and remodeled it. One of the enhancements was a gracefully curved staircase with ornate iron railings that led down the sidewalk on fifteenth street.
Tourtellotte, born in Connecticut, served as a ship's surgeon during the Civil War. In 1870 he and Harriet, a dierct descendant of Benedict Arnold, moved to Winona, Minnesota, near where one of Tourtellotte's brothers lived. Tourtellotte never practiced medicine in Winona. Instead he prospered in banking and real estate even as he and Harriet were stalked by tragedy. Their oldest daughter succumbed to scarlet fever as an infant, while their only child, also a girl, died at age ten as a result of eating a tainted hot dog.
in Minneapolis the Toutellottes became active philanthropists, donating to many causes and staging benefits at their mansion. Here is how the Minneapolis Tribune described an event at the house in 1895: "From the dining room table with its centerpiece of La France roses and ropes of smilax and its decorations of pink ribbons and candles, coffee, ices and cakes were served. Frappees and bonbons were passed from small tables upstairs and down, where there were numerous assisting hostesses."
When Tourtellotte died in 1912, The Tribune said he "never missed and opportunity to do a charitable act" A special funeral train took his body to Winona where he was buried beside his lost daughters. Two years later Harriet donated $125,000 to build the Tourtellotte Memorial Deaconess Home at Asbury Hospital in Minneapolis. The building, now used as a library for North Central University, still stands. Harriet died in 1919. The mansion was razed three years later to make way for what is now the Loring Park office Building at 430 oak Grove Street.
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