Theodore Wirth House-Administration Building

Minneapolis, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

This Colonial Revival house in Minneapolis was built by the park board as an inducement to attract Theodore Wirth, a renowned landscape architect, to serve as superintendent of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board beginning in 1906. Designed by local architect Lowell Lamoreaux (of the firm Long, Lamoreaux & Long), the residence stood in Lyndale Farmstead Park and functioned both as Wirth's family home and as the administrative offices from which he designed and redesigned the city's park system during his tenure from 1906 to 1935. Wirth's international reputation in park design and his transformative work on Minneapolis's parks from this house made it historically significant; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.