Friday, February 24th, 2006
For weeks I was consumed with guilt for not writing back to Ms. J (daughter of the original owner of this house) after she so generously mailed me a lovely letter and photos from when her family built and lived in this house.
So about ten days ago I finally got ...
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
At a time when Minneapolis’ suburban fringe consists of cul-de-sacs connected by miles and miles of highways, it’s hard to imagine that 80 years ago our house a few dozen blocks from downtown represented the edge of suburban development.
Today’s large lots in far-flung suburbs would be unthinkable without two or ...
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
While dismantling the storage drawers and shelves in the basement workshop, I found some interesting old paper lining a couple of the drawers.
The papers date from the house’s “parsonage era” from 1952 to 1973 when it was owned by the last Norwegian-language Lutheran church in the city and occupied by ...
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Sunday, December 18th, 2005
I was cruising through Uptown the other day and noticed a couple antique shops I’d never visited. I had a couple minutes to spare, so I decided to check out their wares.
Whenever I visit a local antique dealer, I look for a cool old map of our neighborhood from ...
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Thursday, November 24th, 2005
As I wrote a couple days ago, Ms. J, daughter of the original owners of Bungalow ‘23, sent me some pictures of the house from the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. I’m including some photos taken yesterday to show some of the physical changes to the house over the ...
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