Farkitecture Follies pt 1
Arbitrary Saint Anthony Falls, a sacred site for the Dakotah and Ojibwe..where the City of Minneapolis was founded. The river, the falls, a wild and powerful beauty. The flour and lumber industries...
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To blatantly plagarize, from the Preservation Alliances 2008 Ten Most Endangered Historic buildings: Oakland Apartments, Minneapolis The Oakland Apartments is a three-story, red limestone and brick...
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And now for a little break in the Fark awards…an infusion of heroism, activism and integrity…standing up and speaking out…confronting the corrupt, speaking truth to evil, resisting the criminal….from...
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JoEllen Haugo…librarian…historian and absolutely right! DESTROYING WOMENS HISTORY. There will be more to say on this much more. Womens
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Ridiculous They owned it for years, did nothing to it except inadequately protect it from inevitable arson, and now this ridiculously impossible nonsense that will never happen. Just effing wreck it...
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“On December 18, 1961 [February 2018, 100 years after the women who founded the Handicraft Guild closed the school] wrecking trucks rumbled through the streets of downtown Minneapolis toward a...
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Here are a few of the jigsaw puzzle pieces I’ve been able to gather about the journey of the vacant Dayton’s Department Store (as it was and always will be) from 2017 to it’s grand but still not...
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