Historic House Tours today
From:
Joan Berthiaume
Date:
Jul 19 06:01 UTC
Short link
Minneapolis Parks Legacy Society will give free interpretive tours of the
THEODORE WIRTH HOME AND ADMINISTRATION BUILDING NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
Saturday, July 19, 2008, 3954 Bryant Avenue South, Lyndale Farmstead Park,
Minneapolis, 55410
Program at Noon, followed by free tours until 4PM
. THEODORE J. WIRTH, FASLA, will welcome you at his Grandfather’s historic
home and offices.
FIND OUT why the park board built this home for Theodore Wirth and his
family.
HEAR stories and VIEW historic photographs to see how the Wirth family
lived.
SEE the offices where Theodore Wirth’s designed the Minneapolis Park System.
LEARN how Wirth exercised his genius to design and develop the Minneapolis
Park System
to become the Best Park System in the Nation.
VISIT Lakewood Cemetery and the Wirth family’s gravesites, within view of
the Wirth House.
FIND OUT why the Wirth family became known as ---
AMERICA’S FIRST FAMILY of PARKS for THREE GENERATIONS.
See you at the park!
Ted Wirth and Joan Berthiaume, cofounders
Minneapolis Parks Legacy Society
.