Inside Pierson-Wold House Named Landmark by Minneapolis City
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Hill&Lak‘WhereePress the biggies leave off...’ Published for East Isles, Lowry Hill, Kenwood Isles, & CIDNA VOLUME 32 NUMBER 7 www.hillandlakepress.com JULY 19, 2008 Pierson-Wold House Named Landmark By Minneapolis City Council Lowry Hill has another Historic Landmark. Last month, the City Council passed a resolution placing the Pierson-Wold House at 1779 Emerson Avenue South on the Minneapolis register of historic places. The own- ers, Natalie and Gil Westreich, who have owned the house for 30 years, have long believed their home was worthy of historic designation. Two years ago they hired neighborhood historian Bob Glancy to research their home’s history and to pre- pare a nomination to be submitted to the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission. As a result of his findings, 1779 Emerson Avenue South was believed to qualify under three of the seven criteria used in defin- ing a historic landmark. The three criteria were: • The property is associated with significant events or with periods that exemplify broad patterns of cul- tural, political, economic, or social history. • The property is associated with the lives of signif- icant persons or groups. • The property exemplifies works of master builders, engineers, designers, artists, craftsmen, or architects. Pierson-Wold house on Emerson Ave S Photo by Dorothy Childers Pierson-Wold House to Page 5 WHO KNICKED OUR POST OFFICE? By Jane Johnson I know many of us are lamenting the sad demise of the sub post office which was until recently housed at Burch Pharmacy. We have descended from having a full service Post Office across the street to a limited service sub post office at Burch’s, and now nothing. Every month I would walk over there to mail 12 Hill and Lake Presses to various institutions and a couple of individ- uals. I would continue on to Mainstreet Bank to deposit the HLP advertiser checks, stop at Kowalski’s for a few dinner ingredients, then home. I find it best to take the papers each month because they have to be mailed in a large envelope and hence need to be weighed, and it always comes to some goofy number that doesn’t match any single stamp. So, when May came around and I arrived at Burch’s to be greeted by the dog eared sign on the door about the closure I was really fed up. A few days prior the sign had said ‘Until Further Notice’, which gave me reason for hope. Now things had changed and the new sign, although just as dog eared as the first, made it clear that our little post office is now well and truly history. I asked the nice pharmacist Cal what had happened and I he told me that the Post Office had made the Photo by Dorothy Childers decision to close the substation. I got a very strong CLOSED!! Inside sense that this was not a topic for discussion, and that all I needed to understand was that none of this had Calendar 2 anything to do with Burch’s. I then asked Jean, one of there was an audit and the substation was closed the Beth Kehoe 3 the sales staff who has been at Burch as long as I can very next day. This was a repeat scenario of what The Library 4 remember. We always have conversations since my apparently happened six years ago, fermenting a hue Historic Preservation continued 5 daughter used to work the register there many moons Minneapolis Minds 6 ago when Jason Ilstrup ran the place. She told me that Postoffice to Page 6 KIAA, EIRA, CIDNA 10-11 Border Awareness 13 INSIDE Ask Diane 14 PAGE 2 PAGE 2 PAGE 9 PAGE 16 Classified Advertising 14 Chuck & Don’s is EIRA Ice Cream Kenwood in the 60s. SWPAC Meeting National Night Out 17 reopening Saturday, Social is Saturday, July PAGE 20 Masthead 18 July 19. 19. Lake of the Isles Letters Opinion 18 Sand on the Waters 19 2HILL AND LAKE PRESS JULY 19, 2008 CALENDAR LUNCH WITH LISA The next Lunch with Lisa will be held on Wednesday, July 23. The topic is the Republican National Convention and its impact on Ward 7 res- idents. Several of the organizers for the RNC, events, and City Staff working to ensure safety and access have been invited. As always it begins promptly at noon. The meeting is scheduled for Rm 201 in Opus Hall at University of St. Thomas – Minneapolis campus. If you are unable to attend at that time,there will be two additional meetings for residents, business, and works on August 6, at 4:00 and 6:00pm. These meetings will also be held at St. Thomas in the Terrance Murphy Hall Auditorium. Thank you! A small gift to Hill & Lake Press from a founding member of HLP, where I was very involved until we sold our house on Park Lane 16 years ago and moved to our condo downtown. And thank you for the infor- mation on Kenwood School’s Centennial Celebration, because I’m sure our two younger kids will want to be involved. Rhoda Lewin Carnival & Silent Auction: August 16th Carnival and Silent Auction: August 16th, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. - Child Garden Montessori will be having a carnival and silent auction at Thomas Lowry Park- Seven Pools (Douglas and Mount Curve Avenues) to raise funds for facility improvements at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral. We hope you will join us at this fun community event. For more information, please contact Rebecca Tollefson at 612-870-9771. 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Twin Cities from 11-12noon No purchase necessary. 3246 West Lake Street, 2 blocks west of Lake Calhoun • 612-926-8161 • Minneapolis • www.ChuckandDons.com JULY 19, 2008 HILL AND LAKE PRESS 3 The Great American Past Time By Beth Kehoe Seems like we’re always gone when everybody’s here, injuries and ailments. We Finally, the famous first annual neighborhood family and here when everybody’s gone. approached the favored field baseball game was underway! We bat, strike out, run Spring break — while many are off to a more tem- with about 8 bats,15 baseballs, away from fly balls, pass our own players while running perate location . we’re here freezing. Labor Day — two mini soccer balls, a frisbee bases . Mr. Rhode Island has a fleeting moment of when most are at their cabins or up North somewhere . for first base, three blankets, a temporary insanity and thinks he is coaching the World . we’re here roasting. During winter break we are here cooler of water, a bunch of Series and that much is at stake . after one inning it’s once again, hiding safely out of driving distance from baseball caps, one straw hat time for an extended water break. We lose a few play- our relatives. And we take our family summer vacation (on the German guy), a ers. Then the dads decide to be “everlasting fielders” in June when most people tend to do that in August. stomp-rocket, one of those Beth Kehoe for the rest of the game. Chivalry is not dead, I guess. Yes, we’re completely out of step with the general stan- big rubber balls with a handle that kids sit on and After our second inning, the game was officially dard of vacationing around here. bounce around, a small bicycle, and a stroller. declared over. And the guys back on the favored field This year the 4th of July happened to be on a Friday We were a force to be reckoned with. were still arriving and warming up. offering a three day weekend which, of course, evacuat- There on the bench sat a young man, who But, we had more important matters to tend to. We ed this town once again. Everybody was off to the cab- announced he would be using the field as soon as the were off to take a nap in preparation for the multi-fam- ins. We, however, were at the Choo-Choo Train Park rest of his players arrived. He also politely suggested ily cookout and home-fireworks extravaganza. During where we found just one other family. The mother was that we use the other field “right over there.” which a pack of teenagers on bikes stopped by for a obviously from another country and probably didn’t Uh-oh. look, and a kid jumped out of a minivan that was driv- have childhood memories of the 4th of July. And the The Chicagoan, Bostonian, and Rhode Islander ing by to add an item to the display, which we promptly father, with his cellphone stuck to his ear, didn’t seem to exhibit varying aggressive responses.