Small Home Gazette, Summer 2012

Window to the Past: “How to Keep Cool”

Of all the places in the world you might guess was home to the first air-conditioned residence, Minnesota probably doesn’t leap to mind. Yet the first residence was in Minneapolis—a 38,000-square-foot mansion on Lake of the Isles, built about 1913 (and razed in 1933). The Star Tribune ran a brief, interesting piece about it. You can read it online at www.startribune.com/lifestyle/162411916.html .

The page below is from the July 1918 issue of Keith’s Magazine on Homebuilding, published in Minneapolis.

Download a readable pdf of this article.