January 18, 2010 – 11:46 pm
By Jeff Fister
The dilapidated Clemens Mansion just north of downtown looks like a horror movie set…. Nightmare on Cass Street. With its faded antebellum columns, collapsing porches and lean-to construction, it seems likely to fall over (or fall in) at any minute.
It’s hard to believe that this decrepit old house is set to become a [...]
October 27, 2009 – 9:24 am
By Jeff Fister
Lindell Boulevard is one of the city’s best-known streets; it began around 1800 as a small path in the prairie leading to a spring near what is now Maryland and Euclid avenues. French colonials and others made their way from downtown to the spring to drink, gossip, quarrel and relax, according to CWE [...]
