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Milwaukee & Franklin Avenues
The antithesis of Milwaukee Avenue—the Seward neighborhood's secret boulevard of late 19th century homes—is the Cedars 94 apartment complex, located just across from Milwaukee on Franklin's north side. Where Milwaukee Avenue has dozens of brick homes with low front porches and gingerbread gables, the apartments have faded wooden shingles and a chain-link security fence. Where Milwaukee Avenue has forsythia, lilac, and crabapple trees along its center, Cedars 94 has cement courtyards and is bound by the roar of traffic from Franklin and Interstate 94.
Before & After
Tornadoes don’t have names, they have dates and times. The inky spiral that drops from the sky is memorialized according to the moment it touches down and stays, cuts the power, and skitters any which way it pleases across a field or farm or town.
St. Peter’s tornado struck at 5:20 p.m. on March 29, 1998. Before that day, this place was a stately, tree-lined town on the Minnesota River, home to Gustavus Adolphus College and more than forty buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Sites.
St. Peter’s tornado struck at 5:20 p.m. on March 29, 1998. Before that day, this place was a stately, tree-lined town on the Minnesota River, home to Gustavus Adolphus College and more than forty buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Sites.
