Is it possible you may ask to devote every entry in this blog to a single house? Yes. Will I? Maybe.
THIS house inspires infinite devotion.
The tragedy of Bardwell’s condition is so raw and so aggressive, so unjust, it must be spoken of large and loud.
In the photo it’s 1985, the golden time of Bardwell’s rebirth and renaissance…
Mary Lou Maxwell and Jean Stewart rescued the house when it was crumbling and abandoned and brought it back…and here they are looking much better than they did on the murky scratchy image from microfilm I published before…
They were photographed by Art Hager in 1985, standing on Pete Holly’s magnificently restored porch with his graceful swirling columns…
smiling with all the energy of victorious restoration.
An image made from the vast photo archives of the Minneapolis Star Tribune itself an endangered resource like my beautiful Bardwell.
Mary Lou and Jean.
My heroes.
I summon ye wherever ye may be …. from the four corners of the earth and heaven…this glorious house needs rescue now.
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