Ever wonder who built and lived in some of the beautiful homes and mansions around Lake of the Isles and Park Avenue in Minneapolis, and who own them today? The "Walk on the Wild Side Thursday Night Hikes" is an unincorporated unstructured aggregation of hikers that has been in existence as a group for about a decade, does not charge for any interested hiker to participate in a hike, and is wholly unprofitable. Larry Martin has written a perspective of these structures to be seen on a hike for hike participants designed solely to shed light on the character of a building and a neighborhood rather than to be definitive research. However, his narrative also includes interesting information on the past and present residents. He has gathered information from the City of Minneapolis property information and Hennepin County property tax information, city directories available from the Minnesota Historical Society, and old Hennepin County and Minneapolis City biographical collect! ions held by MnHS. Walk on the Wild Side Thursday Night Hikes Homepage http://www.angelfire.com/mn/thursdaynighthikes/index.html Washburn- Fair Oaks Hike http://www.angelfire.com/mn3/tcarchpark/fairoak1.html Lake of the Isle Hike http://www.angelfire.com/mn/thursdaynighthikes/lakeisles_arch1.html Claudia Schuman - Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnhennep/ http://hennbios.tripod.com/index.htm http://fdlbios.tripod.com/index.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnscott/index.htm