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Cordenio Severance House
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| Nearest city: | Cottage Grove, Minnesota |
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| Area: | 1.9 acres (0.77 ha) |
| Built: | 1880 |
| Architect: | Cass Gilbert |
| Architectural style: | Classical Revival, Italianate |
| Governing body: | Private |
| MPS: | Washington County MRA (AD) |
| NRHP Reference#: | 76001077[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | June 03, 1976 |
The Cordenio Severance House is a mansion in Cottage Grove, Minnesota built for attorney Cordenio Severance. The mansion, also known as Cedarhurst, was first built as a simple country farm house shortly after the American Civil War. It was expanded in 1886 to serve as the summer residence of the Severance family. Between 1911 and 1917, additions designed by noted architect Cass Gilbert expanded the house into a mansion with 12,000 square feet (1,100 m2) and 26 rooms. It has two neoclassical columned porticoes, a 100 feet (30 m) veranda, a formal ballroom with a pipe organ, three fireplaces, and an English rose garden.[2] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Cordenio Severance was well-connected politically. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and William Howard Taft all visited the mansion, and Central Intelligence Agency meetings were once held in the library. The mansion also hosted international policy meetings.[3]
The house is now owned by True Thao and his family. They have restored the mansion, which hosts weddings, receptions, and business meetings.[3]
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