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Journal

1990

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Historic Sites And Interpretation In Minnesota, Thomas A. Woods Jan 1990

Historic Sites And Interpretation In Minnesota, Thomas A. Woods

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Saving Minnesota: Current Issues In Historic Preservation, Dennis A. Gimmestad Jan 1990

Saving Minnesota: Current Issues In Historic Preservation, Dennis A. Gimmestad

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

In recent years, historic preservation in Minnesota has established a significant record. To be sure, numerous efforts extending over the past century have saved many individual historic properties. For example, the John H. Stevens house (1850) was moved from downtown Minneapolis to Minnehaha Park for preservation in the 1890s; the Henry Sibley house (1836) in Mendota and the Seppman Mill (1863) in Blue Earth County were preserved in the early 20th century. But only in the last three decades have preservationists looked broadly at the full range of types of historic properties and worked to preserve them not only as …