Architecture critic and novelist Larry Millett wrote two walking tour guides to Twin Cities architecture: The AIA Guide to the Minneapolis Lake District and the AIA Guide to St. Paul's Summit Avenue. Here, he's outside a Norman revival home at 4545 Fremont Ave. S., in Minneapolis, one of his favorites. (MPR Photo/Tim Nelson)
Minnesota's lost architectural gems
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Architectural historian Larry Millett has written beautiful and informative books about Minnesota's most interesting homes and buildings. His newest book, "Once There Were Castles," describes 90 mansions and estates that have disappeared from Minnesota. Are there homes or buildings that you remember from the past? Some gems still standing?
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Larry Millett: Architectural historian and author of "Once There Were Castles: Lost Mansions and Estates of the Twin Cities," "Lost Twin Cities," "Twin Cities Then and Now,""The Curve of the Arch: The Story of Louis Sullivan's Owatonna Bank," "AIA Guide to the Twin Cities" and several other AIA Guides. Former architecture critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, where he worked for 30 years. Millett wrote six mystery novels featuring Sherlock Holmes.
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