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you can have it for ... $1.069 million

November 20, 2008 at 10:16PM

This Spanish Revival was owned by inventor Adolf Ronning. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Style: Spanish Revival

A recurring motif: Tulips.

Original owners: Adolf and Hildur Ronning. Ronning was a well-known inventor who held hundreds of patents including headlight dimmers and a tractor-powered golf course mower.

Cost to build in 1930: $69,000.

Spaces: 6,317 square feet including a vault room with fireproof door and a replica 18th-century "Swedish room" with an iron rod in the fireplace for dangling a cast-iron cooking pot over the flames. Ceilings and beams are Northern white oak and floors made from 2-inch-thick spruce.

For more: Jennifer Kirby of Exit Realty has the listing. For a gallery tour, go to www.5030woodlawn.com.

JIM BUCHTA

The Scandinavian-inspired tulip theme in this Spanish Revival house near Lake Nokomis shows up in a set of original entry doors of American black walnut that were hand-cut from the same tree and hand-rubbed with oil. (Exit Realty/The Minnesota Star Tribune)