Remembering Minneapolis Real Estate Agent George Doerr

In 1972, my parents purchased a Kenwood area home at 1800 Knox Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55403. The seller was Oswald Taylor, who was a relative of the Peavey Milling family.  His listing agent at that time was George Doerr, who became well-known as a trusted name in the real estate industry in the Lowry Hill and Kenwood real estate marketplace.

George was a tremendously successful agent who later opened his own Minneapolis real estate firm, George Doerr & Associates.  George and Mary Doerr were neighbors and friends of my parents.  And shortly after my father died in 1989, George listed and sold my parents' home.

Like many of the pedigreed homes in that part of Kenwood, just east of Kenwood Park and two blocks from Mount Curve Avenue, the Taylor home was something of a museum piece.  The house was approximately six thousand square feet in size, located on the corner of Knox Avenue South and Summit Avenue, with a brick and stucco exterior.  The house had six bedrooms, a ballroom on the third level, a huge formal dining room with adjacent butler's pantry, and two libraries, each with a wall of grand built-in bookshelves with leaded glass doors. 

George Doerr passed away in 1996 at the age of 91, but he remained active in Kenwood real estate until just a few years before his passing.

A few veteran Minneapolis area real estate agents still remember George Doerr. He was something of a legend among the handful of luxury real estate agents who served neighborhoods like Kenwood and Lake of the Isles at that time. George Doerr knew the history of the Kenwood - Lake of the Isles district and he knew the value of the magnificent historic homes of Lowry Hill.

View Kenwood and Lowry Hill homes in the 55403 zip code area near Kenwood Park, Mount Curve Avenue and Lake of the Isles Parkway, using the interactive search map below