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 »
Where was Rockwood School?
Posted in Neighborhoods, Vernacular buildings, tagged Andersonville, lost fort collins schools, rockwood school, school building regulations on April 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
In the comments section of an earlier post, Barefoot Meg asks, “where was Rockwood School?” Funny you should ask. I made Norm drive me there last month because I wondered too. Rockwood-Place (later renamed Barton) was built in 1908 near the beet factory and attended by migrant children– German Russian and Hispanic. It was the [...]
The neighborhood Stanley
Posted in Neighborhoods on April 4, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I live in Old Town.
A lot of people think that the neighborhood’s charm is in its old buildings, big trees, and easy walking to parks and downtown. But you have no idea.
Turkey vultures return to Mountain Ave
Posted in Annual events, Neighborhoods, tagged turkey vulture migration, vultures in fort collins on March 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
No matter what the calendar says, Winter isn’t over in Fort Collins until the vultures return to their pines at 920 W. Mountain. The first of them arrived today (Tuesday). Soon, 50 or more will follow. Welcome home, guys. Happy Spring everybody.
Beaver's Market: A mom & pop grocery competes against supermarkets and superstores
Posted in Commercial, Neighborhoods, Vintage commercial, tagged buy local fort collins, neighborhood markets on March 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Every day we’re here, is one more example of how America is supposed to work. Beaver’s Market is the last neighborhood market in Fort Collins. Last year, Matt Campbell produced this story for 88.9 KRFC Community Radio about how the family-owned grocery competes, and thrives, in a world of interstate superstores. (Pictures by Lostfortcollins):
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 [...]
Fort Collins faithful flee Whedbee: Old churches for sale
Posted in Neighborhoods, tagged churches on whedbee street, fort collins small churches, historic churches for sale on February 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Economies of scale aren’t just for factories and retail outlets. Here are a few others left behind by the big box explosion south of town.
Elephants on Oak Street
Posted in Annual events, Neighborhoods, tagged 1947, Circus in Fort Collins, Larimer County Republicans, Vintage photo of Fort Collins City Park on October 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Coloradoan says Republicans so far outnumber Democrats in early voting here in Larimer County. “Corridors leading to the early voting site at the county courthouse, 200 W. Oak St., were busy all day,” it reads. This calls for a visual metaphor: This 1947 photo shows elephants marching from the train on Mason Street to the [...]
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 [...]
Children who work
Posted in Art, Modest or alternative living, Neighborhoods, tagged Andersonville, child labor, children in fort collins, colonias, historic fort collins, Lewis Wickes Hines, Rockwood Place school, sugar beets, Vine street on September 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I think any parent of a modern adolescent finds those pictures of child laborers in the early 20th century intriguing horrifying. Just horrifying. Yet, we marvel at what a 12-year-old could do if he had to. He could walk 8 blocks. He could stay off the couch most of the day. He could work a [...]
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