Watching the National Dog Show reminded me of this
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Advertising Exclusion
Thanks to the diligent work of Mapping Prejudice and other local organizations, much light has been shed on the legacy of racial covenants included in housing deeds in Hennepin County. Racial covenants are clauses that were inserted into property deeds to prevent people who were not White from buying or occupying land. The Thorpe Brothers, prolific local housing developers, are infamous for including racial covenants in their developments. The covenants and restrictions in these developments were actually used as a selling point by the Thorpe Brothers in their advertisements. The images here are from Thorpe Brothers ads that were recently added to our Minneapolis and Hennepin County Subject Vertical Files. These brochures advertise the County Club District being constructed in Edina in 1924.
The County Club District, located just west of Minneapolis in suburban Edina, was marketed as an exclusive enclave. The brochures tout the restrictions on minimum home construction cost ($5,000 on some streets, higher on others), restrictions on the styles of houses that could be built, restrictions on fumes, restrictions on trash can placement, and prohibition of multi-family housing.
The brochures do not specifically mention the racial covenants that were added to each lot in the County Club District. For everyone reading between the lines, however, the section on restrictions ends like this: "There are numerous other restrictions which, when studied, will be found agreeable to each person who is buying a homesite. The restrictions are made for the protection of the Home Builder, and in no case can a substantial objection be raised." Many current homeowners, as well as the city of Edina, are raising substantial objections to the harmful legacy of racial covenants in the Country Club District, and many homeowners have renounced the restrictive racial covenants on their properties.
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Frank on the walls of my buddy’s apartment shot sometime in 2017 on my shitty point and shoot Nikon.
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Finally decided on a new Tarnished!! She is a Confessor named Edina and she’s a PRUDISH STUCK UP CHURCH GIRL
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Edina area, 66th st running East and West, Upper field which is now Southdale Mall. (1940)
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Transitional Exterior in Minneapolis
Example of a large transitional white two-story stucco house exterior design with a hip roof, a tile roof and a red roof
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Happy birthday to me! The universe was nice enough to gift me a bunch of anxiety that I can't explain, and everyone around me has been getting on my case about my attitude which is obviously a huge help! Thanks!
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Spaziergang in Melbourne
Spaziergang in Melbourne
Nächste Station: Flinders Street
Titelbild: Melbourne, Eisenbahn-Station (Flinders Street Station) und Yarra-Fluss, Ansichtskarte der Deutsch-Australischen Dampfschiff-Gesellschaft aus dem Jahr 1913; Fotograf unbekannt, eigene Sammlung
Die schöne detailreiche Aufnahme zeigt die Flinders Street in Melbourne um das Jahr 1912. Die abgebildete Ansichtskarte ist Teil einer Ansichtskartensammlung, die…
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Happy Thanksgiving Gifts
The season of Thanksgiving is upon us. Gratitude is such a powerful healer and the gateway into love. Ultimately Love is the most powerful healing agent in any situation and gratitude is the first step to embodying it.
What are you thankful for? I am thankful for the awesome healing power of Chinese medicine and the ability to share it with all my wonderful patients as well as the ones I will…
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Exterior - Traditional Exterior
Image of a medium-sized, elegant, two-story concrete and fiberboard house exterior
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