Almost all Twin Cities development since the mid-1950s has been alleyless. The neighborhoods below are the ones platted before that — narrow lots, rear garages off an alley, a public sidewalk on every frontage, and roof lines that make ice dams a standing feature of the winter rather than an occasional one.
One house here can carry four separate winter jobs. Which of them are yours depends on which side of the river you are on.
1906–1920s streetcar buildout, bungalows and Sears catalog houses. Three winter jobs at once.
1920s–30s housing on the parkways, where the Day 2 snow emergency rule is different from the rest of the city.
A tight grid means a lot of corners — and a corner lot is roughly double the winter.
High rental share, where a duplex and a fourplex sit on different sidewalk clocks.
All four of the ZIP codes the city's own commissioned research tied to the alley captain arrangement — 55104, 55105 and 55116 — are below. How the arrangement works, with a cost splitter.
55105. Most of the housing predates 1939, and Tangletown breaks the grid entirely.
55116, named directly in the reporting on alley captains.
Tight, older platting — which prices at the harder end of the alley range.
55104, and where the study's finding about renters and organizing actually bites.
Pre-1940 blocks in the 55104 belt. Three clocks running at once.
Describe the property once — frontage, corner, alley, steps — and get the whole winter priced together rather than a service at a time.
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