Tag Archives: Bonnie Wessler

The Danger (re)Zone… the unsellable houses of Bell Street

By Mark | May 12, 2016

Every once in a while someone I don’t know hands me something and asks me to publish it on this site. Until today, however, I don’t think that I’ve actually ever done it. I’ve never taken something that I’ve found scrawled on a piece of paper and stuck in my mailbox, and posted it. An […]

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The Olmsted Brothers’ 1913 plan for Ypsi’s stretch of the Huron River

By Mark | April 13, 2016

Way back in 2007, after learning that my friend Nat Edmunds was in possession of an original copy of the 1913 Huron River Improvement Plan drafted by influential landscape architects John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., I made a promise on this site that I’d figure out a way to get it scanned […]

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