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1950s midcentury modern Erickson House in Duluth, Minnesota, USA
1950s midcentury modern Erickson House in Duluth, Minnesota, USA (image credit: Ben Clasen and Edina Realty)
Looking for something unique" You can?t get more interesting than the 1950s midcentury modern Erickson House in Duluth, Minnesota, USA.
(image credit: Ben Clasen and Edina Realty)
 
Not so much a tree house as much as a house amongst the trees. Hovering above a creek that works through the Congdon Estate towards Lake Superior, this is a dream of a midcentury modern house dating back to 1959.
(image credit: Ben Clasen and Edina Realty)
 
So construction was around 64 years ago. With that in mind, you would expect plenty of changes. Spoiler alert. Very little – if anything – has changed with this house. (image credit: Ben Clasen and Edina Realty)
 
I suppose it wouldn?t be easy (or indeed sensible) to alter the architecture. It would lose so much of its appeal if anything were done to ?modernise? this one. But you might expect someone to have updated the interior in six or so decades. I’ll be honest, I?m not seeing much of note that doesn?t sit well with the original design. But we?ll get to the interior in a moment.
(image credit: Ben Clasen and Edina Realty)
 
First off, the architecture itself, which is described by the agent as a house sitting on top of a steel bridge spanning a creek And that?s about right.
(image credit: Ben Clasen and Edina Realty...