>Greg Luce asked: > Interesting subject and, along these lines, I noticed a sign near the > corner of Lyndale Ave. N. and West Broadway that said "Welcome to Old > Highland." Anyone want to give us a sense of when Old Highland existed > and when it changed to Hawthorne?
Old Highland is the neighborhood directly SOUTH of Hawthorne, going from Broadway to Plymouth, and Bryant to Girard. It is technically a subset of Near North, but it is its own 501(c)3. It is not counted as one of the city's 81 neighborhoods. (BTW: I served 2 terms as its president back in the 70s or 80s.) Old Highland has Queen Anne Victorian houses on the National Register of Historic Places, and even some of our carriage barns are historically significant. Old Highland was established as a neighborhood association in the 70s. One of our residents is Charlie Nelson, the state Historical Society's architectural historian. Charlie is a treasure trove of knowledge and was instrumental in the St. Peter cleanup to help the city restore, not demolish, its historic structures. Old Highland also was the first neighborhood to institute clean sweeps. We've had more than 20 so far. Our traditional date is the weekend before the Home Tour, so our area looks good for the Home Tourists. This was the first time in many years that we had no home on the tour, but our traditional volunteers helped at two great houses barely outside our borders. Linda Higgins Old Highland _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
