Historic photos, an inspired homeowner, a detail-oriented landscaping designer, a hardworking crew, and the Minnesota Historical Society guided the restoration of this Summit Avenue home’s original reflecting pool, brickwork, and gardens. This project received the 2009 MNLA Landscape Design Award and was featured in SPACES Magazine.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was known to have visited this home frequently. In fact, F. Scott and his parents lived on Summit Ave for a time in the early 1900s. Our clients’ home originally belonged to Samuel Dittenhofer and his wife, Madeline.

The home was designed by architect Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. who also designed the Fitzgerald’s home, St. Paul Central High School, and the Glensheen mansion in Duluth, among others – all examples of Jacobean architecture.