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Past Crookstonians unite to build up city

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:15:00 +0000

Music to build by! Thanks Kristina!

Past Crookstonians unite to build up city

You don't need new windows!

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:05:00 +0000

Sash windows are a precious part of our built heritage that makes the places we work and live special and last over 100 years!

Youth Arts Center condensed to two pages!

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:39:00 +0000

Here it is, the condensed 2 page version of the "Young at HArt Center." I know people are busier today than ever, so here is your shortcut to something new and exciting for Crookston, MN!

Young at HArt center exec summary.doc

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Revised and a New Name for Youth Arts Center!

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:57:00 +0000

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heckyesPres: Lucy Saves Main Street

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:55:00 +0000

"More than a street...it's a way of life!"

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When is a Local Landmark Worth Saving? | Apartment Therapy Chicago

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:46:00 +0000

The comments tell both sides of the story:
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Georgia DNR, Historic Preservation Division - Historic Preservation & the Georgia Economy

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:35:00 +0000

Georgia DNR, Historic Preservation Division - Historic Preservation & the Georgia Economy

No Need to Panic

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:36:00 +0000

Faltering Foundation

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My two-story house in rural Indiana was built before 1860. The bricks were made on site, as it was a brick and tile factory during the Civil War. The original house has a stone foundation and crawl space, and the supporting wall is about a foot-thick brick wall that is now disintegrating into powder. What could be causing this? Is there anything I can do to save it? How should I go about stopping the damage before my house caves in?

It may not be possible to arrest the disintegration of the bricks in your supporting wall, but if the wall is a foot thick it is probably providing plenty of support for the time being. Unless there are obvious signs of an imminent collapse, there's no need to panic.

Modern brick-making is a tightly controlled manufacturing process in which bricks are fired and cooled in precise steps. Temperatures inside a tunnel kiln can hit 2,400° F. and the result is an extremely hard and durable building component. Before all this equipment was developed and refined, making bricks was more of a crap shoot, and clay that was dug and mixed on site could have been of uneven quality. Unpredictable kiln temperatures likely produced bricks of varying hardness.

If they were undercooked, bricks could be porous and weak. And when those bricks are constantly battered by weather and the freeze-and-thaw cycles of a northern climate it's no wonder they erode over time.

Make sure the house is stable.

When foundations, sills, and other load-bearing parts of a house fail, the clues should be obvious. They can include diagonal cracks in exterior walls and sagging floors, doors, and windows that no longer open or close properly. Checking for these problems will reveal any obvious first signs of instability.

If none of those things are evident, and floors and walls are sound and straight, you should have plenty of time to figure out a long-term solution. A foot-thick wall will provide a great deal of support even if the outer surface is beginning to erode. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true: If the brick supporting wall shows signs of collapse, or it can no longer support structural parts of the house, you should call in a mason, carpenter, or both for immediate repairs.

Replace what's worn out.

I'd enlist the help of a mason who has worked on old houses. He or she could tell you whether there is any way to reinforce the existing brick or, if damage is limited to a small area, replace some brick without tearing out the entire wall. My hunch is that the old brick should come out, and be replaced with a bearing wall of new brick or concrete block with a brick facing. In the long run, removing suspect materials completely is the right way to go.

It may cost a little more, but it's often faster than trying to work around old problems. And you won't lie in bed at night wondering whether the kitchen floor will still be there when you get up in the morning.

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Watch the Movie CARS over the Holidays!

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:06:00 +0000

How the Movie "Cars" is about Preservation and Restoration

by Wood Window Makeover.com on Friday, November 26, 2010 at 9:01pm

Sometimes inspiration comes when you aren't looking.

My Mom and Grandmother were here from Texas for Thanksgiving Day and once the festivities ended we put on a movie - The Disney/Pixar now classic Cars. My mom had never seen it, my boys love it and I just think it contains a great message. So this time as I watched it for probably the 100th time - I saw something new.

If you've seen it you know the theme. A hot shot race car named Lightning McQueen gets lost on his way to the other side of the country and finds new friends that change his perspective and give him a new take on life - a better take. He starts off self absorbed but discovers that relationships mean more than winning a race.

Another theme though is the restoration and preservation of what is lost through progress.

Lightning finds his way to an almost forgotten and disappearing town called Radiator Springs. There are signs everywhere that once upon a time the town was full of life. Vacant buildings where businesses once thrived appear weathered and beaten down - mere skeletons of the life that was once there.

Cut to a scene late in the movie, a friend, Sally, shows lightning what happened to the town. She takes him to a bluff that over looks the valley where the town sits and shows him the old Route 66 rolling and turning with the land and then then interstate cutting straight through the hills bypassing the old highway. Sally explains that life before the interstate was much different - that cars drove for the experience, not to make better time. Using pictures and music, the movie shows the way life used to thrive in Radiator Springs and how the town believed the new interstate going through would bring in even more people to the town. But the town was wrong. The progress of interstate left Radiator Springs behind. Dried up, desolate and alone, all that remained of the town were a few good friends and old memories - until Lightning showed up.

The highlight of the movie is close to the end when Lightning has a change of heart and helps restore the way of life as it once was for the entire town. He restores the main strip and gives everyone the opportunity to see their town again as it once was. It's one of the most enjoyable scenes in the whole movie.

Cars communicates very well the idea that most of us know that something bigger is missing and we all long for something more than just progress. I think we all want progress, but at the same time we don't want to lose that deep sense of connection that we have with one another and our past. Sometimes when an interstate cuts through to make life easier and faster, we don't see what we are trading until its too late. Sometimes what we trade is bigger and more important that what we seek to gain.

In my line of work, windows - but more importantly, craftsmanship - there is a lot that's being traded in the name of progress. I am hanging on to all I can, not to the past, but to the way things were done in the past when people poured themselves into the buildings they built as well as the people around them. Cars reminded me of that. I think the movie will do the same for you. I recommend watching it with a mindset of restoration and preserving not just the architecture of the past, but the presence and soul of what made it so great to begin with.

I found this article on the Notes page of one of my friends on Facebook, the Wood Window Makeover folks. Their website is www.woodwindowmakeover.com. We hope you enjoyed it.

Frozen Music

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:49:00 +0000

Architecture and Music - It's Personal

from Confessions of a Preservationist by landmarkblog@gmail.com (The Landmark Society of Western New York)

Architecture is Frozen Music...

Perhaps you've heard about that quote, from late 18th century writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethe elaborated, by suggesting that architecture produces the same "tone" or effect in your mind as music.

But what about the reverse? If architecture is frozen music, does that mean music is liquid architecture? Are there connections between architecture and music - or more specifically, historic preservation?

Folks at The National Trust for Historic Preservation have given this some thought. Their forum list discussion resulted in contributors building a playlist of songs that refer to the designed environment. Called "Songs of the Preservationist,"
it's a fun read, and amazingly varied - everything from traditional songs (Little Old Sod Shanty on the claim or Stephen Foster's My Old Kentucky Home) to popular 20th century pieces (Rosemary Clooney's Come On - My House or The Beatles In My Life) to contemporary pieces (Vampire Weekend's Mansard Roof or rapper Eminem's "Beautiful.")

You can see the entire playlist here.

They've even put a video playlist on Youtube, where you can enjoy several of the songs and their videos (just be aware that there is a bit of "adult" language in some of the songs. Did I mention Eminem?)

The playlist on Youtube can be enjoyed here:

Goethe was certainly a deep thinker, comparing the effect of architecture to the effect of music on our minds - That it gives you a sense of the art, of what is greater or bigger than ourselves, what transcends our lives. While I appreciate that philosophical perspective, I prefer the way music - and architecture - connects intimately with the personal level in my life.

We've all experienced hearing a song from a past period in our lives - maybe when you were in college, when you were 10 years old, when you were first married - and felt that pull to your earlier time. For a moment it's as if the intervening years have disappeared.

Don't you think the physical environment of the architecture around us has the same effect?

This thought crossed my mind when I heard Miranda Lambert's new song, "The House That Built Me." It's a touching tribute to the memory and meaning of our childhood home. The singer visits the house where she grew up, hoping the new owners will let her in, as she promises to "take nothing but a memory." She hopes the visit will help her recapture her authentic sense of self.

Think about your childhood home. What can you recall about living in that home? Think about how it felt, as a kid, to live there. Remember the feeling of the banister - or the doorknob - or the way the windows opened?

In the historic preservation field, we get accustomed to thinking on a larger scale - the house's architecture, the streetscape, the preservation district, the city. It's enlightening to bring it back to a personal level - and what could be more personal than the spaces you inhabited as a child?

I didn't know that I was growing up in a classic American Foursquare house. I remember the feeling of perching at the top of the staircase when I was supposed to be in bed. I'd peer through the balusters of the handrail at the adults watching TV in the living room.

Those balusters were my "bird blind" - where I got to observe the adult world in secret (at least until the night I fell asleep and got caught.) Is it any wonder I grew up to be someone who liked the secret spaces and staircases of older homes?

I bet you know a bunch of people living in their childhood homes today. I mean the children you know! They are building their memories and future attitudes about the "frozen music" of architecture now. They know their own personal spaces. It's our job as adults to help them see the bigger picture. If the kids you know are in elementary school, check out our summer program "Arch-KID-Tecture" where they will have lots of fun getting a wider perspective. Just visit our website for all the details .

I'm grateful that singer Miranda Lambert's song helped me make this connection between my past and present experiences in architecture.

It's a good thing that her house was still standing.

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Now we will never know...

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:28:00 +0000

Now we will never know if the Wayne/Palace Hotel's supporting walls were structurally sound. In the above floor plan of the fourth floor, areas shown in red are the wooden structures that let light in to all three floors. These are not made like the exterior walls that are six bricks thick.

Now we will never know if some falling brick on the south side meant do some masonry repair, or loss of structural integrity.

Now we will never know if Metro Plains would have been successful if they had tried a third time with the new state historic tax credits and/or different funding sources.

Why? Because Polk County turned down an offer of a free structural assessment from a structural engineer from the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota.

When we drive by on US Highways 2 and 75 and look at that ugly corner, let's remember:

What if the County had replace the roof and cleaned out the building, and put up a for sale sign 10 years ago?

What if the County had forgiven back taxes owed by Marthaler to allow the building to be donated to Prairie Skyline Foundation?

What if the County had set up some housing incentives in 2004 or used our 2010 offer of free grantwriting services?

What if the City of Crookston had tried harder in 1995 to replace the funding gap sought from Minnesota Housing Finance Agency with another source?

What if the City actually had implemented the past downtown development plans?

What if the County had not fear mongered over the last 10 years?

What if the County had patched the roof instead of putting on blue tarp to gather heavy water?

What if Judge Kraker had access to a structural engineers report rather than the opinions of paid employees and demolition contractor?

What if we all could have done it, an artspace for downtown?

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We did all we could with what we had

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:40:00 +0000

The Prairie Skyline Foundation and Preservation Alliance of Minnesota (PAM) were disappointed to learn last Thursday that Judge Michael Kraker denied their request for a temporary injunction to halt demolition of the historic Palace/Wayne Hotel in Crookston. Prairie Skyline and PAM had filed suit against the City of Crookston, Polk County, and the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB) as a last-ditch effort to save the endangered building, which anchors Crookston’s commercial historic district. The building is a contributing structure to a designated historic district; under the Minnesota Environmental Rights Act, an Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) is mandatory for such properties before they can be demolished in whole or in part. In June, the City and County requested and received an “emergency waiver” from the EQB, allowing them to avoid the preparation of an EAW. An EAW would have required public consideration of alternatives to demolition.

In his decision, Judge Kraker appeared to be swayed by the recent deterioration of the interior wooden light wells on the roof of the Wayne Hotel. The City and County have claimed that this deterioration is indication of imminent structural collapse, although the exterior masonry walls of the building show no sign of structural failure or significant deterioration. The preservation organizations’ request for a Temporary Restraining Order would have allowed them the opportunity to complete an independent structural assessment of the building. PAM, along with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, had offered to conduct and fully fund such a study in July, shortly after the EAW waiver was granted to the City.

Of particular concern to the three preservation organizations involved is the means by which the EAW waiver was handled. The decision to apply for the waiver was apparently made at the administrative level of City government, and required no public notice. Likewise, the waiver was granted by the EQB chair and forwarded to the City without public disclosure or opportunity for comment. Typically, EAW processes and decisions are published in the State Department of Administration’s biweekly EQB Monitor and as legal notices in area newspapers, and public comment is allowed for thirty days following each posting. The waiver rule itself seems reasonably designed to address a real emergency, but the EQB's broad application of the rule, and ignorance of its own language that the emergency action be limited to only that which is immediately necessary, ultimately doomed an important historic resource.

Of particular concern to the Prairie Skyline Foundation is the lack of vision for downtown Crookston and the apparent haste with which the City and County proceeded to destroy a significant building at the heart of downtown. When the local building inspector demands a structural engineer’s plans for all other building proposals in the area, it seems only fair to ask for a neutral structural engineer’s assessment of the Wayne Hotel. When County Commissioners hammered Prairie Skyline for a plan beyond stabilizing the Wayne Hotel, it is only fair to demand a plan from the City and County for the empty ugly space where something grand will be taken away forever without sufficient opportunity for public involvement.

In filing suit against the City, County, and EQB, Prairie Skyline and PAM took the only legal tool available to them as concerned citizen organizations. Hopefully this lawsuit will send a message to all concerned that the public has watchdogs overseeing the application of the EAW waiver rule and local government’s compliance with state environmental laws as they pertain to historic properties.

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Arts Entertainment District Downtown includes Wayne Hotel

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:36:00 +0000

A person walks pass some of the murals painted at a closed building along Dexter Avenue in downtown Montgomery, Ala., on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. (Montgomery Advertiser, Lloyd Gallman)

Downtown revitalization must include historic preservation, expert says

By Jill Nolin • October 11, 2010

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Downtown revitalization was once talked about because it wasn't happening. Now, it's being talked about because it's actually taking hold in Montgomery.

Montgomery's success, to date, in revitalizing its downtown is a major focus of the annual Alabama Preservation Conference that started Thursday and ended Saturday. Some of the sessions have offered analysis and commentary on what steps led up to the rebirth that sparked on the riverfront and is starting to push into the rest of the downtown area.
"I tell you, you are doing the right things in Montgomery, Alabama. It's not there yet, but it's never there," said Donovan Rypkema, who is an internationally noted expert on using historic preservation as an economic development tool.
Rypkema, who was the keynote speaker at the conference this year, spoke Friday about the value of historic preservation in economic development, but more specifically, he talked about how historic preservation spurs sustainable development.
"Downtown revitalization without historic preservation? It ain't happening," Rypkema said at a luncheon held in the ballroom at 130 Commerce St. at Alley Station.
Montgomery's story of revitalization has been years in the making, and even though the remainder of its story has yet to be written, city planners and decision-makers are laying the groundwork today for what will unfold in the coming years.
That was the case with the Alley Entertainment District, which was an idea started years ago and that developed into an actual project in 2008. City officials used about $1.1 million in proceeds from the Tax Increment Financing District, which was created to help fund the downtown revitalization effort, to improve the public part of Alley Station. Private businesses have followed the city's lead.
City officials hope to get the same results now on lower Dexter Avenue, where Montgomery is in the process of selecting a developer, or developers, to rework nine city-owned historic properties.
"It's our commitment to not just make old, new, but make old, old," said Mayor Todd Strange about the conference's focus on the city's work to accomplish economic development downtown through historic preservation.

City officials also attribute a degree of the success downtown to a mandatory shift to SmartCode zoning in 2006. They also would pin that achievement on Ken Groves, the city's planning director who passed away recently after a brief battle with cancer.

The zoning, which allows for commercial and residential uses in one location, and the use of historic properties have brought Montgomery to where it is today.
Rypkema said Friday that downtown revitalization is a sustainable growth for several reasons, including: it usually has strong local economic impact; it serves as a natural incubator for small businesses; it attracts a variety of activities in one area; and it fosters a sense of ownership in the community. Unlike large generic shopping centers, a downtown effervesces a sense of place for people who are likely to feel a commitment to see it succeed, he said.
"Downtown revitalization is not about fixing up buildings. It's about people, not buildings," Rypkema said.
Rypkema said cities that are working to bring new life to their downtowns and reverse the urban flight or "white flight" that occurred years ago also should work just as hard to retain businesses that stuck it out in downtown after others fled. After retention, the goals should be business expansion and then business recruitment, he said.
"And that's not sociology. That's economic development," Rypkema said.
Chad Emerson, who is serving as interim assistant planning director for the city, said Rypkema's comments about Montgomery's efforts in downtown have given city officials more confidence in what they are doing.
Even though Emerson said there is still a significant number of "underutilized buildings" downtown -- he uses that description instead of "vacant" because some buildings have one tenant but could handle more -- the progress made during a recession gives city officials encouragement for what is yet to come.

Change is Brewing in Baltimore

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:55:00 +0000

Change is Brewing in Baltimore

Letter to Polk County to allow us to stabilize the Wayne Hotel

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:14:00 +0000

Letter to polk county

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Our response to City's "No" letter

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:57:00 +0000

Response to august 26 city letter

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City's Response to our letter to Save the Wayne

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:31:00 +0000

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Saving the Wayne/Palace Hotel conversation

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:15:00 +0000

Here is the letter we wrote to the City Council regarding saving the Wayne

Letter to board members and city council members letter

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Architecture at the Minnesota State Fair | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:50:00 +0000

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A History of the offices and stores in the Palace Hotel

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:39:00 +0000

1904 113 C.L. Bang Candy Manu
115 Edward Wood & Co.
117 Palace Hotel Saloon
117 & ½ Nat Campbell & Moeckel; Carpenter & Stenvick, Crookston Club, Hayes, R.M. Kirsch, M.D., McKinnon, Daniel, Rowe, W.D., Rowe, W.E., U.S. Land Office
119 Farley, Z.J.
121 Basset, Miss L.M.
123 Carpenter, Huggard & M
1908 117 & ½ U.S. Land Co., Clough & Caldwel, A.C. Clausen, Crookston Club, Daniel McKinnon, W.E. Rowe, Lee Sisters, Ernest Moeckel
119 Farley
121 J.E. Carpenter Land Co., City Realty Co.
123 F.B. Harris
1911 113 Miss Florence Huey
117 & ½ Palace Hotel
123 N.H. Yeo
1915 113 Mrs. M. B. Pierce
115 Carpenter Land Co.
119 Palace Hotel
123 N.H.Yeo
1930 113 Munn’s Music & Jewelry
115 Rosemary Hat & Hosiery
117 Palace Cafe
123 Regan’s Candy Shop
1935 113 Munn’s Music & Jewelry
115 Crookston Production Credit
117 The Dutch Room
120 & ½ Wayne Hotel
121 Northwestern Bell
123 Christines Beauty Service
1940 113 Chas. A. Munn, Jeweler
115 Crookston Production Credit
117 Hotel Wayne Coffee Shop
119 Hotel Wayne
123 Vacant
1949 113 Samuel’s Studio
119 Hotel Wayne, Kiwanis Club, Lion’s Club, Wayne Cafe
123 Schuster’s
1952-53 113 Ken R. Johnson Photography Studio
119 Hotel Wayne, Kiwanis, Lion’s, Sidney’s Café, Samuel’s Studio
1956 113 Ken R. Johnson
119 Wayne Hotel, Lion’s, Sidney’s Café,
123 Emerson Insurance Agency
1958 113 Ken R. Johnson
1961 119 Wayne Hotel, Robert W. Stone, Lion’s Sidney’s Café, Toastmasters, Rotary
123 Emerson Insurance Agency
1963 113 Ken R. Johnson
119 Wayne Hotel, Robert W. Stone, Lion’s Sidney’s Café, Toastmasters, Rotary
1964 113 Ken R. Johnson
119 Wayne Hotel, Robert W. Stone, Lion’s Sidney’s Café, Rotary
1967 113 Ken R. Johnson
119 Wayne Hotel, Edward S. Shasky
1970 113 LeMar Photography
119 Wayne Hotel, Arrow Cab, Hasty Tasty Café,
1972 119 Wayne Hotel, Arrow Cab, Robert’s Two Restaurant
123 American Family Insurance
1973 119 Wayne Hotel, Arrow Cab, Robert’s Two Restaurant
123 American Family Insurance & Hagen Realty
1975 119 Wayne Hotel, Arrow Cab, Robert’s Two Restaurant
123 Hagen Realty
1977 115 Vacant
119 Wayne Hotel, The Fireplace, Ed’s Tropical Fish, B&B Jr. Restaurant,
123 Hagen Realty
1978 115 Coffee Klutch, Roger Johnson & Lee Marthaler
119 Econo Apartments, The Fireplace, Ed’s Tropical Fish
123 Hagen Realty
1979 113 LeMar Photography
115 ENB Cafe
119 Econo Apartments, (5 vacant of 15) Greyhound Bus Depot
123 Hagen Realty
? 113 LeMar Photography
115 ENB Café
119 Econo Apartments (3 vacant of 16)
1984 113 LeMar Photography
117 Paradise, Wm. R., CPA
119 Econo Apartments (3 vacant out of 18), Triangle Bus Line
123 Hagen Realty
1986 113 LeMar Photography
117 Paradise, Wm. R., CPA
119 Econo Apartments (6 vacant out of 17), Triangle Bus Line
123 Hagan Realty
1987 113 LeMar Photography
117 Paradise, Wm.R., CPA
119 Econo Apartments (4 vacant out of 14), Triangle Bus Line

123 Lutheran Brotherhood
? 113 LeMar Photography
117 Paradise, Wm. R., CPA
119 Econo Apartments (13 vacant out of 21) Triangle Bus Line
123 Lutheran Brotherhood
1989 113 LeMar Photography
117 Paradise, Wm. R., CPA
119 Triangle Bus Line
123 ?
1991 113 LeMar Photography
117 Vacant
119 Vacant
123 Crookston Area Chamber of Commerce
1994 113 LeMar Photography
117 The Accounting Office
119 Vacant
123 Vacant
1996-1999 113 LeMar Photography
117 Vacant
119 Vacant
123 Vacant
2000 All Vacant

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City Council 7 pm sharp tonight! Save the Wayne for Artspace!

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:54:00 +0000

Don't forget to show up! Tonight, August 23, 2010 at 7 pm in City Hall is our last chance to save the Wayne/Palace Hotel. We will be presenting three new ideas for the historic landmark plus the stabilization costs and a new downtown task force that will cross the arts with the politicians! Be There!

The alley in winter without the Wayne Hotel, everyone traveling US 2 and US75 will see this!

Just show up for 15" that's all we ask of you!

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:02:00 +0000

A gentle reminder,tomorrow, Monday, the 23rd, 7 pm sharp, we are storming City Hall. We only have 15 minutes, so be there on time. You will hear not one, but three new ideas for the Wayne. This is more than the Wayne Hotel! It's about taking back citizen control of our downtown and community. You don't have to say anything, just show up for 15"! The sneak peak at the speech is on "Friends of the Wayne/Palace Hotel" facebook page!

Stabilization Cost to Save the Palace Hotel!

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:21:00 +0000

These Costs are Submitted by Brian J. Carlson, JLG Architects, Grand Forks, ND

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Calling all Prayer Warriors!

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:52:00 +0000

Nothing but tons of prayers will save the Wayne/Palace Hotel from short-sighted "leaders." At this time, we are preparing a proposal to the Polk County Board because we too were waiting for good news from Metro Plains Development.

Is this the Depot that used to be on Riverside Avenue?

noreply@blogger.com (Crookston Kate) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Does anyone remember this Depot on Riverside Avenue? This was before my time, maybe the thirties? I remember the Railroad Tunnel we walked through from the High School to get to Central Park. Help me out here.