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The George W. and Nancy B. Van Dusen House is a mansion in the Stevens Square neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The owner, George Washington Van Dusen, was an entrepreneur who founded Minnesota's first and most prosperous grain processing and distribution firm in 1883.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Van Dusen Center )〕 In 1891 he hired the firm of Orff and Joralemon to build a mansion on what was then the southwestern edge of Minneapolis. His house reflects the prosperity achieved by business owners who were making money in the flourishing grain, railroad, and lumber industries in the late 19th century. The mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.〔 The exterior is built of pink Sioux quartzite quarried near Luverne, Minnesota. The roof and turrets are covered with Maine slate.〔 The mansion is generally within the Richardsonian Romanesque form, but it also has French Renaissance design elements, such as steep roofs, and a soaring, slender turret topped with a copper finial. The interior mixes elements of French, Gothic, Tudor, Romanesque, and Elizabethan styles. It contains ten fireplaces, a grand staircase, large skylights, carved woodwork, parquet floors, and a tile mosaic in the entryway.〔 George Van Dusen was born on July 10, 1826. He married Nancy Barden, his third wife, on November 29, 1860. He started the G.W. Van Dusen & Co. grain company in Rochester, Minnesota, which merged by 1889 with a Minneapolis company to become Van Dusen-Harrington. This eventually became part of the Peavey Company, acquired by ConAgra in 1982.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Peavey Company: An Inventory of Its Records )〕 Van Dusen is credited with naming Byron, Minnesota after the town of Port Byron, New York, where he once lived, though it should also be noted that his father Laurence had been born in Byron Center, Genesee County, New York.〔 The Van Dusens are said to have survived a tornado that destroyed a previous home and as a result the mansion has some unique features including I-beam construction that supposedly made the home tornado proof. Additionally, tunnels radiated from the building into the yard which may have been for emergency use.〔() City Pages Article: Poehling's Castle By Merrily Helgeson Wednesday, Nov 5 1997〕 ==Non-residential use== After its initial residential use, several non-residential conversions altered the mansion. In 1961 a large modern addition was added to the mansion.〔(Tumblr post identifying year of addition as 1961 )〕 Organizations that operated from the mansion over the years include the Hamline University Law School, U.S. Communications, and Horst International Education Center, a predecessor of the Aveda Corporation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George W. and Nancy B. Van Dusen House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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