Grimes, Jonathan Taylor, House - Edina, MN - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

As Edina historian E. Dudley Parsons put it: “The Grimes family is in many ways part of the very fabric of Morningside.” Grimes Avenue and Alden Drive are Morningside streets named for pioneer settler Jonathan Grimes and his son Alden. Grimes is three blocks west of France Avenue and runs North/South from West 40th Street to Sunnyside Road. Alden is two blocks west of France and runs South from West 42nd Street to Morningside Road.

In the summer of 1854, Grimes, his wife, Eliza, and their three small children arrived in St. Anthony Village, before Minnesota became a state. In 1859, Grimes and a partner, William Rheem, purchased (for $300) 160 acres in southwest Richfield Township, which included the Waterville Mill (later renamed the Buckwalter, Browndale and finally the Edina Mill). Grimes also obtained a “quit-claim” deed to an additional 160 acres north and east of the mill, much of which would later become the Village of Morningside. The following year, Jonathan and his family moved into a six-room house at what is now 4200 W. 44th Street.

Grimes and Rheem sold the mill in 1867 and Jonathan started the Lake Calhoun Nursery. Later, as first president of the Minnesota Horticultural Society, Jonathan Grimes earned a reputation for agricultural experimentation. He was a noted horticulturist, and introduced gingko and catalpa trees to Minnesota.

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Street address: 4200 W. 44th Street Edina, MN USA 55424 County / Borough / Parish: Hennepin Year listed: 1976 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Person, Architecture/Engineering Periods of significance: 1850-1874, 1875-1899 Historic function: Domestic Current function: Domestic Privately owned?: yes Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 1: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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