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Plannerminnesota Preservation PlannerMinnesota Preservation Fall 2006 Vol. XVII, No. 4 A newsletter on historic preservation from the State Historic Preservation Office of the Minnesota Historical Society. The two sides of development By Britta L. Bloomberg, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer When the Minnesota Historical Society’s attention to the neighborhood’s Meetings and Workshops Mill City Museum opened in the continuing transformation. An ever- burned-out remains of the Washburn widening area in and around the St. Sept. 27–29 A Mill in 2003, it joined a wave of Anthony Falls Historic District, once 27th Annual Statewide Historic construction and rehabilitation that has perceived as an industrial wasteland, is Preservation Conference, Red Wing. Register online at transformed the Minneapolis riverfront. now highly desirable real estate. www.mnhs.org/presconf. It also marked the dramatic rescue of a National Historic Landmark. Not far away, on the corner of Lake Oct. 24 Street and Chicago Avenue in south State Review Board meeting, 7 p.m., Minnesota History Center, 345 Kellogg In recent months the spotlight has Minneapolis, another rebirth is Blvd. W., St. Paul. For agenda shown once again on the Minneapolis happening. Midtown Exchange, an information call Michele Decker, riverfront, as the opening of the new ambitious redevelopment of the historic 651-296-5434. Guthrie Theater brought renewed 1928 Sears, Roebuck and Company Mail- Oct. 31–Nov. 5 Order Warehouse and Retail Store, is 59th National Preservation Conference, revitalizing a struggling neighborhood. Pittsburgh, Pa. For more information go Ryan Companies US, Inc., was the lead to www.nthpconference.org. developer, partnering with a host of Nov. 3–4 public and private parties to undertake 19th Annual Gales of November Minnesota’s largest-ever historic Shipwreck and Diving Program, Duluth. rehabilitation project. Using federal For information call 218-727-2497 or go to www.lsmma.com/gales. historic preservation tax credits, the partners returned the once-bustling shopping mecca to its status as a CLG Grants popular destination. Approximately $70,000 in matching grants is available through the Certified Nearby lies the Midtown Greenway, Local Government program for cities a bicycle-and-pedestrian trail that with local historic preservation replaced the railroad tracks in a ordinances, commissions and programs certified by the State Historic transportation historic district known l e z r Preservation Office and the National e as the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul P b Park Service. See page 4 for details. o B Railroad Grade Separation – a recent y b o t addition to the National Register of o Jan. 12, 2007: Pre-application due. h P Feb. 16: Grant application due. Historic Places. Midtown Exchange, Minnesota’s largest-ever April 5: Grants Review Committee meets. historic rehabilitation project, has brought new The two sides continued on page 2 life to the long-shuttered 1928 Sears, Roebuck warehouse and store in Minneapolis. The two sides of development – continued These are the development projects that Lofts is slated for construction next to on and on – and it’s not limited to preservationists celebrate – whether it’s the historic Woodbury House, built in projects in the greater metropolitan Jean Nouvel’s bold design for the new the 1850s. Though the developer left area surrounding the Twin Cities. Guthrie, with its careful attention to the the footprint of the house undisturbed, qualities of its historic setting on the the looming five-story condominium Whether development is large-scale or Mississippi River, or the courageous complex is an assault on the natural small, rural or urban, it is the cumulative rehabilitation of Midtown Exchange. historic setting. In Wayzata, the local impact of change that poses the They represent the kind of innovative community is heartsick at the pending stealthiest threat to our historic development that melds residential, loss of Locust Hills Estate, one of Lake resources. It’s easy to measure loss when commercial, recreational and public Minnetonka’s last remaining country those resources are destroyed. It’s more uses into an exciting new whole. estates; a remnant of the estate is all difficult to assess the indirect damage that will remain when the site is inflicted on our communities’ historic Unfortunately, there’s another side redeveloped. And in Eden Prairie, the fabric by infrastructure projects or to development. With increasing rapid pace of suburban development, adjacent new construction. Managing frequency these days, the State Historic with its accompanying highway this kind of change is one of the greatest Preservation Office sees projects that improvements, is pressing in on the challenges facing preservationists today. are eroding the historic character of our grounds of the historic John R. communities. In Anoka, Rivertown Cummins Farmhouse. The list could go Rabideau CCC Camp gets National Landmark designation The National Park Service has the CCC virtually changed the U.S. Fewer than 2,500 historic places carry designated the Rabideau CCC Camp in landscape. They undertook National Historic Landmark Beltrami County as a National Historic conservation projects on millions of designation. Rabideau becomes the Landmark (NHL), the country’s highest acres of public land, greatly expanding 22nd Minnesota property to achieve recognition given to historic properties. the country’s system of national parks landmark status. For more information and forests. Recent scholarship also on the NHL program and Minnesota’s Located in the Chippewa National suggests that the CCC set the scene NHL properties, go to www.cr.nps.gov/ Forest, six miles south of the city of for the emergence of the modern landmarks.htm or www.mnhs.org/places/ Blackduck, the Rabideau CCC Camp is environmental movement. nationalregister/landmarks/index.html. one of the most complete surviving examples of the 4,500 camps built by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1933 and 1942. CCC camps represent the most acclaimed and successful of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, inaugurated by the federal government to lessen the effects of the Great Depression. The men of Rabideau Camp Company 708 and the three million others enrolled in Worker housing at the Rabideau CCC Camp in Beltrami County. 2 Minnesota Preservation Planner Saved Hennepin County: Calhoun Beach Club and Apartments (1928, 1946), Minneapolis This lakeside club fulfilled the ambitions of its founders to meet their residential, recreational and entertainment needs in a single facility. Federal preservation tax incentives were used to fund the rehabilitation, which included repairing and replacing windows, repointing Calhoun Beach Club and Apartments ca. 1940 (left) and after rehabilitation. brick, restoring terra cotta and installing new mechanical systems. St. Louis County: Christian Brothers Home (1907), Duluth Using federal preservation tax incentives, the Women’s Transitional Housing Coalition transformed this rundown Gothic Style building into housing for women in need. The building’s most important features and finishes – double-hung windows, a two-story porch, arched stained glass windows, interior oak trim and casework, main staircase and hardwood floors – were repaired or replaced in-kind. Christian Brothers Home before (left) and after rehabilitation for housing. Registration Recent additions to the National Register of Historic Places: Hennepin County: Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank (1942, 1963), 88 S. 6th St., Minneapolis. Prepared by Charlene Roise and Erin Hanafin Berg. Lake County: Isabella Ranger Station (1934-35), 9420 Minn. Hwy. 1, Isabella. Incorporated in 1874, the Farmers and Of the 21 buildings at the Isabella Ranger Prepared by William Clayton and Lee Mechanics Savings Bank was Minnesota’s only Station, 12 are log structures built by the Johnson. long-lived mutual savings bank, in which the Civilian Conservation Corps in the mid-1930s. depositors were the sole shareholders. Both the The station, encompassing an office building, Morrison County: Our Lady of the Streamline Moderne banking hall, completed in garage, storage shed, oil house, warehouses 1942, and the International Style tower, added and dwellings, served from 1934 to 1955 as an Angels Academy (1911, 1931, 1951), in 1963, were designed by Minneapolis administrative center for federal land 18801 Riverwood Dr., Little Falls. architects Dale McEnary and Edwin Krafft. management initiatives in the Isabella Ranger Prepared by Clayton Fraser. District of the Superior National Forest. Fall 2006 3 About this publication CLG grant deadlines The Minnesota Preservation Planner is published four times a year by the State Historic Preservation Office of the Minnesota Now is the time to begin planning for development activity, in order to Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted, a 2007 grant from the Certified Local reduce project delays; photographs are from the State Historic Government (CLG) program (see CLG • generate data for planning use; Preservation Office. grant deadlines on page 1). You are • result in local designations; and/or Material from this issue may be reprinted with encouraged to submit a draft of your • involve properties associated with the the following credit line: Reprinted with permission from Minnesota Preservation application by Jan. 12 so that Grants history of underdocumented groups Planner, Vol. XVII, No. 4, Fall 2006, published Office staff can offer suggestions. or communities. by the
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