Minnesota Avenue Between Primm and Marceau Streets

Continuing south on Minnesota, we encounter more vernacular housing, with an occasional duplex, such as above, but also some very interesting wood frame construction, as seen below.

As far as I can tell above and below, these were standard wood frame Greek Revival houses that received extremely awkward expansions to their second floors!

The dormers are very large, and I have to wonder if they are original.

There are other small houses that I suspect date to the 1860s or earlier with additions out the side.

But the neighborhood continued to thrive into the Twentieth Century, so we see the arrival of stout brick buildings such as the ones below.

We also see the beginning of the shotgun houses, as I call them, below, which come in one and two story versions.

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