ADU / accessory dwelling in Nokomis
Nokomis is Minneapolis South's 1920s-1950s bungalow + cape cod + lakefront tudor submarket. Lake Nokomis (204 acres) anchors the neighborhood — second-largest lake in Minneapolis.
What a adu / accessory dwelling project looks like here
Lake Nokomis (204 acres) anchors the neighborhood — second-largest lake in Minneapolis.
Lake Nokomis was deepened by WPA crews 1933-1937 to its current 35-ft depth.
Minneapolis ADUs — detached, attached, and conversion paths — scoped against Minneapolis CPED / St Paul DSI + MN Residential Builder License (DOLI) setback + height + parking variances. In Nokomis specifically, 1920s-1950s bungalow + cape cod + lakefront tudor stock means adu / accessory dwelling scope is shaped by the neighborhood's dominant construction typology. Baily's Minneapolis scoping flow factors lake nokomis shoreland and minnehaha creek wd permit on >5,000 sqft disturbance into the estimate before a contractor is involved.
Start your Nokomis scope — Baily asks the right questions.
Pre-seeded for adu / accessory dwelling in Nokomis. Mention your 1300-2600 sqft, your timeline, and any known constraints — Baily factors the city of minneapolis cped + minnehaha creek watershed district review queue into the scope.
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Who is Baily?
Baily is named after Francis Baily — an English stockbroker who retired at 51, became an astronomer, and in 1836 described something on the edge of a solar eclipse that nobody had properly articulated before: a string of bright beads of sunlight breaking through the valleys along the moon’s rim.
He wasn’t the first to see them. Edmond Halley saw them in 1715 and barely noticed. Baily’s contribution was clarity — describing exactly what was happening, in plain language, so vividly that the whole field of astronomy paid attention. The phenomenon is still called Baily’s beads.
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Questions LA homeowners actually ask
Nokomis adu / accessory dwelling projects typically run $150K–$445K. Nokomis's 1920s-1950s bungalow + cape cod + lakefront tudor stock, combined with lake nokomis shoreland — dnr 75 ft setback, puts most mid-complexity projects in the $298K range. Baily scopes the exact band once you describe the work.
Nearest neighborhoods
Same service, adjacent Minneapolis submarkets.