The Eugene A. Merrill House

McSweeney & Fay, PLLP, 2116 Second Avenue South, is conveniently located in one of Minneapolis' beautiful historic buildings.

The house, built in the French Renaissance/Chateauesque style, is the only local grand mansion of the 1880's that survives. Purchased in 1886 by lawyer and banker Eugene A. Merrill, it is the first of several homes in the district designed by William Channing Whitney.

Whitney, a Massachusetts native and MIT alumnus, was remarkably skillful in his lavish design styles of the period and also designed the Minnesota Building at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

The lawyers at McSweeney & Fay purchased the mansion in July 2004 and began extensive renovations to restore much of the original woodwork and flooring. The mansion has been deemed a historical landmark by the Minnesota Historical Society.