Lost Mansions of the Twin Cities: A Journey Through St. Paul & Minneapolis

Visit the VSA website to learn how you can get involved today: https://victoriansociety.org/ Step back in time to discover the grand, vanished mansions that once dotted the skylines of St. Paul and Minneapolis. In this special episode of This House, we explore the architectural wonders that rose during the Gilded Age, from Summit Avenue’s legendary estates to Minneapolis’s lavish enclaves near Park Avenue. Witness how fortunes built on fur trading, lumber, flour milling, and railroads fueled an era of opulence—only for many of these majestic homes to fall to demolition, fire, and modern development. How we make our videos: Camera: Sony a6400 Microphone: Shure SM7B Audio Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 XLR Cable: Mogami Gold XLR Cable Green Screen: Neewer Green Screen Teleprompter: Neewer Teleprompter Production Credits: Scripts: Ken Weiss Storyboard: Ken Weiss Video Editor: Dalton Sturm Location: Twin Cities, MN Public Domain Photos from: Library of Congress CC BY 2.0 Photos from: Flickr User: Teemu008, Paul Sableman, The Minnesota Historical Society CC BY-SA 3.0Photos from: Wikipedia User: William Wesen CC BY-SA 4.0 Photos from: Wikipedia User: McGhiever, Bmzuckerman Assets from: Envato Elements Music from Epidemic Sound