Overview

The Day House was home to Frank E. Day, a mining businessman and real estate investor, in Lowry Hill. Prominent local architect Ernest C. Haley designed it in the Colonial Revival style.

• Location: 1900 Colfax Avenue South
• Neighborhood: Lowry Hill

Historic profile

The Day House was home to Frank E. Day, a mining businessman and real estate investor, in Lowry Hill. Prominent local architect Ernest C. Haley designed it in the Colonial Revival style. 

Haley designed the house in 1908. He is associated with dozens of residential, commercial, and industrial buildings in Minneapolis. Most of his associated buildings are in the Lowry Hill neighborhood. 

Colonial Revival style architecture became popular in Minneapolis in the early 20th century. It reflected the changing values of middle- and upper-class residents at the time. Simple and durable design replaced the gaudy, decorative architecture of the Victorian era.  

The two-and-a-half-story rectangular home is on a corner lot. The exterior is a red brick veneer with few plain stone details. It has a symmetrical front façade with a large open porch with round columns that extends the full width of the home. The stone that caps the front porch wraps around the entire home in a horizontal line. There are two wood-shingled dormer windows protruding from the gabled roof. A two-stall garage was built in the rear of the property the same year the main house was constructed. 

The Day House was converted into a duplex in 1951. It was further divided in 1981 into a multi-family residence.