Northside: Hope and Hard Work!

2705 N 3rd Street – Minneapolis

Another inspiring story of the restoration of a concrete block
house by Anderson Mitchell who saw potential in an abandoned
near ruin and brought it back with many many months of
hard work.

Note the show stopping three level porch…the Minneapolis
Heritage Preservation Commission decreed the porch had
to be historically appropriate for the house…Anderson
could have [...]

Milwaukee Ave – the PAC that could!

Milwaukee Ave – Minneapolis

Another Preservation month story I posted first on placeography.org about the great save of railroad laborers’ houses in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis.
When a group of people get together and are determined to save historic buildings, sometimes it works, the rescue makes history and sets the course for us all!
Milwaukee Ave on [...]

Preservation Month! May 2008

In honor of Preservation month, here’s the story of the
rescue of my favorite house…
For details on the Bardwell-Ferrant house, see the first
post in this blog…the house had a grand beginning but
like many others gradually devolved into a neglected,
run-down rooming house.
In 1971 a young Charles Nelson, (the first state historic architect
with the Minnesota Historical society) had [...]