Severance Mansion

The Severance Mansion, also commonly referred to as the Cedarhurst Mansion, is a Neoclassical Revival style mansion in Cottage Grove, Minnesota that served as the home of Cordenio Severance, a St. Paul attorney, and his wife Mary Harriman Severance. The building began as a small farmhouse built in the late 1860's, which was expanded by the Severances into a summer home in 1886, and again into a 26-room mansion between 1911 and 1917undefined.