Save the Bardwell-Ferrant House!

photo by Jeff Wheeler for the Minneapolis Star Tribune
As 2008 becomes history, it’s important to remember here an effort to save the Bardwell-Ferrant house in August when it’s foreclosure, vacancy and vandalism
were discovered.
This effort was led by Connie Nompelis, Minneapolis preservation activist and owner of one of Theron Healy’s houses on the Healy Block at [...]

BAH HUMBUG!!!

Still don’t know who this fellow is, one of the many detailed, elaborate carvings
on the Masonic Temple building in downtown Minneapolis. Yep, it’s carved
stone not terra cotta…and I wonder if any photog has managed to capture
every detail in it’s Egyptian glory.
I suppose somewhere in one of the many archives that I’d have to make
an [...]

The House of Our Dreams

Another old house, vacant for years, boarded, neglected, unwanted by anyone in the ECCO neighborhood…but gosh darn it anyone living there would sure
have a spectacular view of THE LAKE.
What happened here is GOOD for the neighborhood isn’t it?
Heck, when rich folks want to knock down that nasty dirty old historic house and put up a [...]

We’re outta here!

The Blizzard’s done but the fantasy goes on…all things are possible
with fantasy!
Uncle Buffett give me the CASH Buy me the house, hire me some
big ole house movers AND
Arise my beloved, my fair one, and come away with me…
Bardie letz go to Nicollet Island!!!!!!!!
Got a spot all picked out for you BF on the Island…heck [...]