June 4, 2011, Saturday - Ard Godfrey House Opens for the 2011 Season

Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm (Saturdays and Sundays thru August 28). The last complete tour is at 3:30pm.

Location: Chute Square (Intersection of Central Avenue SE and SE University Avenue - across from Lunds)

Admission is free, no photography allowed.

The Godfrey House is the oldest remaining wood frame house in Minneapolis, first occupied by Ard Godfrey, a millwright, and his wife Harriet Godfrey in 1849. Costumed volunteers from the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis will guide you through this fascinating furnished home and help you glimpse what life was like for early City founders.

When the city of Minneapolis acquired the land for a park in 1903, it was named in honor of businessman Richard Chute, an early University of Minnesota regent and a director of the St. Anthony Waterpower Company.

The House was owned by the Chute family from 1880 until its purchase by the Hennepin County Territorial Pioneers Association in 1905.  It was moved to Chute Square in 1909.