CategoriesHistory JournalA painted glass roundel showing a long-haired man in armour with a gold sash, lettered CAROLUS GUSTAVUS A 1622 and 1660 around the rim, set in a leaded Pillsbury Mansion window.

Where Did the Pillsbury Mansion’s Centuries-Old Stained Glass Come From?

Scores of medieval stained-glass panels glow in the Pillsbury Mansion's windows. Here's how ancient cathedral…

CategoriesHistory JournalThe carved English oak Walrond marriage fireplace of 1592, brought from Bovey House in Devon and installed in the lounge of the Charles S. Pillsbury Mansion in Minneapolis

Whose Marriage Is Carved Into the Pillsbury Club’s Lounge Fireplace?

The carved oak overmantel in the Pillsbury Club lounge began at Bovey House in Devon…

CategoriesHistory JournalA vintage Pillsbury flour sack, the packaging that carried the Minneapolis family name into kitchens across America.

How a Minneapolis Flour Empire Built the Pillsbury Mansion

The flour that made Minneapolis the Mill City built the Pillsbury Mansion on 22nd Street.…

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Who Designed the Pillsbury Mansion? Meet Architect Edwin Hewitt

The Charles S. Pillsbury Mansion was designed by Beaux-Arts architect Edwin Hewitt of Hewitt &…

CategoriesHistory JournalMary Stinson Pillsbury in her wedding gown at the carved stone entrance of the Pillsbury Mansion, Minneapolis, on her wedding day in 1929 — an archival family photograph.

Who Was Mary Pillsbury Lord, the Mansion Daughter Who Took Eleanor Roosevelt’s UN Seat?

She was married at this mansion's front door, then succeeded Eleanor Roosevelt at the United…

CategoriesHistory JournalPeriod photograph of the oak-panelled dining room in the Charles S. Pillsbury Mansion, with a long carved table, high-backed chairs and an ornamental plaster ceiling.

Who Were the Duveen Brothers, the Art Dealers Behind the Pillsbury Mansion?

Meet the Duveen brothers — the most powerful art dealers of the Gilded Age —…

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What Happened When a Lutheran Seminary Moved Into the Pillsbury Mansion?

For nearly three decades the Charles S. Pillsbury Mansion was a Lutheran seminary called Passavant…

CategoriesHistory JournalColour illustration of the Charles S. Pillsbury Mansion in 1916, showing the full corner site, the gabled roofline, the clustered chimney stacks and the balustraded terrace wall along the street.

How Did the Pillsbury Mansion Survive When Minneapolis’s Other Great Mansions Fell?

An entire avenue of Minneapolis mansions fell to the wrecking ball across the twentieth century.…

CategoriesHistory JournalA carved oak figure beside the 1476 Tallow Chandlers stone chimneypiece in the library of the Pillsbury Mansion, Minneapolis, lit by leaded glass windows

How Did a Fireplace That Survived the Great Fire of London End Up in Minneapolis?

Inside the Pillsbury Club's library stands a stone chimneypiece carved in 1476 for London's Tallow…

CategoriesHistory JournalPeriod portrait of Count Louis Pomian Bodenham Lubienski (born 1852), the last Bodenham owner of Rotherwas Court, Herefordshire — a photograph by Jakeman & Carver

The Bodenhams of Rotherwas: The English Family Behind the Mansion’s Oak

Before its carved oak and grand staircase crossed the Atlantic to Minneapolis, they belonged to…

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