West Side flats
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The flats were bounded roughly by Robert Street on the west, Concord on the south, and the river everywhere else. State Street, the main drag, was just ten blocks long, and one could pace off the whole neighborhood in an afternoon.
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Fairfield and Livingston
Fairfield and Livingston
Find this intersection (just south and one block west of the Robert Street bridge), and what do you see? Not much? Well, only because you came several decades too late. Had you had the foresight to…