Which old houses worth saving? And how far should we go to save them? Two Fort Collins’ bloggers are exploring these questions: One using research and one using very big trucks.
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House Huggers
Posted in In the news, Neighborhoods, Preservation and renewal, tagged fort collins bloggers, Fort Collins midcentury history, house preservation on May 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Pandemics in Fort Collins and Larimer County
Posted in Colorado State University, In the news, tagged 1918 flu epidemic in larimer county, fort collins influenza, larimer county poor farm on April 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Who died in the 1918 influenza epidemic in Larimer County? It wasn’t the elderly and sickly, as you might expect.
Besides breweries and bicycles: The Romero house
Posted in Grow your own, In the news, Modest or alternative living, Neighborhoods on February 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Imagine you build a house out of local and renewable materials. And you build it only 500 square feet for the whole family, in walking distance of your job. The yard is big enough for a significant garden, and you raise chickens and hang your own laundry on a clothes line. Nobody gives you a [...]
FC Activists: Agreeing to disagree since 2001
Posted in In the news, tagged Home Depot, safeway, war protests in fort collins on January 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Here’s a little something about us for those of you who aren’t from here. Or aren’t from here anymore: We agree to disagree. Every single Saturday, at 12-1pm. For the past 7+ years.
"You're a jerk": Then and now
Posted in In the news, tagged bicycles in old town fort collins, bikes on the sidewalks in fort collins on November 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It used to be a lot easier to tell people what you were thinking.
Blighted Fort Collins
Posted in In the news, Neighborhoods, Preservation and renewal, Vintage commercial, tagged Book Rack, Flood of 1997, fort collins, Mexican markets, Prospect and College, urban blight, Urban Renewal Fort Collins, Wild sweet peas on October 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Fort Collins recently found the area around College, just south of Prospect, blighted. It includes ChuckECheese, Dairy Queen, and early strip malls. The area in the photo above is behind the strip malls. It was a trailer park, but it took the worst of the 1997 flood (several residents drowned trying to leave) and the [...]
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