Does anyone else find the original mid-century modern style of 1129 Minnesota Street more appealing than its present façade?

[I would say it's more Moderne than Modern. - Dave]

Like Bob Dylan sang "a hard rain's gonna fall" on that roof and cause big problems!"

From ngbarnett's "Still There!" photo, it looks like a sloped roof was added. I was wondering how well a large flat roof in Minnesota weather worked out.

I wonder if the current residents have any idea of how hip their house use to be?

Where was the Architect from, Arizona? The flat roof had to be a real issue with all the snow. I'll bet it was a leaker. No surprise that a pitched roof was added at a later date.

I wonder why they evetually added a hipped roof eventually.

Maybe something to do with 54 inches of average annual snowfall in Minesota? 116 inches of precipitation? Naah, surely not.

The good people of Hibbing seem not to have liked this newfangled architecture of the Bauhaus movement. The house has been so modified to almost completely eliminate the Walter Gropius look of the original. The Bob Dylan house is a little less modified, but the stucco and the added decorative elements work towards the same effect.

The house at the corner still exists at 1129 Minnesota Street along the old (Trunk) Highway 169. The smokestacks in the background are part of the Hibbing Public Utilities Commission steam plant.

in Minnesota is just a disaster ready to happen.

Bob Dylan was born just three months earlier in Duluth but grew up in Hibbing. The similarity of his family home to this one is startling.

Not exactly a vision of harmonious (as distinct from homogenous) development.