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ADU / accessory dwelling in Tangletown

Tangletown is Minneapolis Southwest's 1910s-1930s tudor + bungalow + period revival submarket. Tangletown name derives from the curving street grid laid out 1910-1925 — designed against the standard Minneapolis grid.

Tangletown cost range
$100K$580K
typical mid-complexity
Permit authority
City of Minneapolis CPED
6-12 weeks
Typical home size
1400-2900 sqft
Borough · ZIP
Minneapolis Southwest
55419
Minneapolis 2040 triplex + ADU by-rightCurvilinear street grid creates non-orthogonal lots — variance often needed for additionsHeritage tree protection on boulevard elms + oaksPre-1940 stock — RRP lead-paint protocol on all renovations

What a adu / accessory dwelling project looks like here

Tangletown name derives from the curving street grid laid out 1910-1925 — designed against the standard Minneapolis grid.

Washburn Water Tower (1932) is a city landmark on the eastern edge — visual-impact review for new 3-story builds nearby.

Minneapolis ADUs — detached, attached, and conversion paths — scoped against Minneapolis CPED / St Paul DSI + MN Residential Builder License (DOLI) setback + height + parking variances. In Tangletown specifically, 1910s-1930s tudor + bungalow + period revival stock means adu / accessory dwelling scope is shaped by the neighborhood's dominant construction typology. Baily's Minneapolis scoping flow factors minneapolis 2040 triplex + adu by-right and curvilinear street grid creates non-orthogonal lots into the estimate before a contractor is involved.

Start your Tangletown scope — Baily asks the right questions.

Pre-seeded for adu / accessory dwelling in Tangletown. Mention your 1400-2900 sqft, your timeline, and any known constraints — Baily factors the city of minneapolis cped review queue into the scope.

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Origin

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.

That’s what we wanted our AI to do. Every inbound call and text has signal in it — a homeowner’s real question, a timeline, a budget, a hesitation that means “yes but.” Baily listens to every one, 24/7, and finds the beads of light.

Baily was a businessman before he was a scientist. That’s our vibe too.

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