From the Archives: The Great Fire and the Bisbee Family Revisited

JHS Senior Archivist Mitch Hemann shares another story from the Great Fire of 1901 and, with the help of Historian at Large Wayne Wood, solves a mystery.

Making the Case for Historic Preservation

Part of our mission is to make the case for historic preservation, partly because it creates economic development in addition to cultural capital, but also because an old building contributes to the time capsule of city planning, architecture and construction as they were understood and practiced in the early 1900s.