They're pretty safe if you're careful. I just really, really wanted to be sure nobody in the house opened it as a favor to me to clean it out.

Yeah, but it's gone wrong in a way I wasn't expecting. It's kinda gone like gritty butter in there. I'm hoping some time out of the fridge will melt it enough that I can open it without setting off a volcreamic eruption in the kitchen.

do not open it. this is not a place of honor. no highly esteemed cream is commemorated here.

This is what I was going for, yup!

Yup! There's a couple others in there, too.

I also saw a reference to the guy who they thought did it, but he was never convicted. I can't remember his name but iirc he died in prison for another murder, though don't quote me on that. He was also implicated in...well, a lot.

Oh, I bet it had a choir loft that was converted into a bedroom or something

Oh, based on widow locations it appears to have been converted into a 2-story building on the inside.

tldr - anything after the early 70s is hit-or-miss in the city permit system. Funny how computers made it easier for us to lose data.

This makes it a pain to figure out when something was wrecked. This building, for example, the best I can do is say the original church was probably knocked down between 2003 and 2011 and the houses between 1995 and 2003.

This is good if you're trying to find the history of a moved building, frequently the original address is no longer in the Minneapolis system.

Anyway.

Between 1975 and 2000ish, you can get microfiche scans that summarize things pretty well. However, wrecking permits are often not listed.

One frustrating thing is that we actually have less available information the more recent I look. Before 1975 or so, most things are on permit cards. They're stamped with big-ass "wrecking" stamps and you can find addresses that no longer exist in Minneapolis.

Yeah, I haven't been to an event there in 20 years. From what I remember, it's one of the most spread-out and awkward convention centers I've been to. The lack of food options appears to be nigh-on a universal truth for these kinds of large venues, though.

The photos look pretty nice, but I can also see the case for replacing it. The convention center is ugly as sin but it's much more practical for the size of events they throw now. It would have been nice if they'd saved the facade, though.