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		<title>Duluth Jail Sold to Developer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BREAKING NEWS &#8211; Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - The St. Louis County Jail, which has been on the Alliance’s 10 Most Endangered Historic Places list for the past two years, has been sold to a developer who plans to rehabilitate it as office and conference space. The St. Louis County Commission voted to approve the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mnpreservation.org/2010/03/10/duluth-jail-sold-to-developer/</link>
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		<title>Link of the Week, March 5, 2010 &#8211; Cases of Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Historical Society&#8217;s Visual Resourse Database has a great collection of historic photographs from throughout the state. You can browse thumbnails very easily&#8212;great for researching or just whiling away the time. A new finding aid pulls together the historic images from Norton &#38; Peel, a commercial photography studio that was based in Minneapolis from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mnpreservation.org/2010/03/05/link-of-the-week-march-5-2010-cases-of-fun/</link>
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		<title>Historic Saint Paul Women in History March 26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historic Saint Paul and the League of Women Voters St. Paul are celebrating Women&#8217;s History Month by hosting a series of panel discussions that explore the accomplishments of some extraordinary Saint Paul women.  The next discussion is:
Stories of Women in Saint Paul History
Friday March 26 12:00 &#8211; 1:30
317 Landmark Center &#124; 75 West 5th Street [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mnpreservation.org/2010/03/04/historic-saint-paul-women-in-history-march-26/</link>
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		<title>Happy Hour with a Preservationist &#8211; May 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Hour with a Preservationist &#8211; Meditation  Room, University of Minnesota
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Center for  Spirituality and Healing&#8217;s Meditation Room, Mayo Memorial  Building, University of Minnesota &#8211; Minneapolis Campus, 420 Delaware  Street SE
Join Preserve Minneapolis for a visit to the Meditation Room, part of the Mayo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mnpreservation.org/2010/03/04/happy-hour-with-a-preservationist-may-11/</link>
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		<title>Happy Hour with a Preservationist &#8211; March 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Hour with a Preservationist – Garden of Gethsemane Ministries
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at Garden of Gethsemane Ministries &#8211; 2054 James Avenue North
Thatcher Imboden of the Ackerberg Group will lead a  tour of this 1908 church, which was recently renovated and has won  local and state preservation awards. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mnpreservation.org/2010/03/04/happy-hour-with-a-preservationist-march-10/</link>
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		<title>Minnesota Main Street Logo Competition Voting Open</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Main Street logo design competition has closed and we  have received three entries.  The logo selected will be used as the  primary icon on the Minnesota Main Street website, printed documents and  other media. Public judging will take place online from March 1, 2010 –  March 14, 2010. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mnpreservation.org/2010/03/01/minnesota-main-street-logo-competition/</link>
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		<title>Link of the Week &#8211; Futures of the Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feb. 24, 2010
Richard Moe, the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, announced his retirement in November. This recent article in Architect magazine is not only a great retrospective of Moe&#8217;s career and the changes he brought about at the National Trust, but also a great primer on the many and varied tenets of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mnpreservation.org/2010/02/24/link-of-the-week-futures-of-the-past/</link>
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		<title>Ding-Dong &#8211; A Real-life &#8220;Windows Smackdown&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Erin Hanafin Berg, Field Representative
February 17, 2010
An unsuspecting young salesman from The Window Store just had the misfortune of ringing my doorbell. My “Not interested,” which I delivered as soon as he introduced himself, was not enough to deter him. So, instead of getting a quick and easy brush-off, he got a30-second diatribe as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mnpreservation.org/2010/02/18/ding-dong-a-real-life-windows-smackdown/</link>
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		<title>New Use for an Old White Castle &#8211; and more on fast-food preservation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Erin Hanafin Berg, Field Representative
February 16, 2010
The other day, I was having idle conversation with a friend about White Castle, and she said something about the &#8220;White Castle accordion shop.&#8221; What?!? (I wonder if those four words had ever before been strung together in the English language.) I was familiar with the White Castle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mnpreservation.org/2010/02/16/new-use-for-an-old-white-castle-and-more-on-fast-food-preservation/</link>
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		<title>Help Preserve the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of Minnesota&#8217;s most beloved parks and a dynamic symbol of the state, the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden needs your help. After 22 years and more than 7.2 million visitors, the Sculpture Garden&#8217;s infrastructure has deteriorated and some of its plant life is at the end of its natural life cycle.
The Minneapolis Park &#38; Recreation Board, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mnpreservation.org/2010/02/10/help-preserve-the-minneapolis-sculpture-garden/</link>
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