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Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Gallery: Here's your chance to own this historic Red Wing bed & breakfast
Gallery: Here's your chance to own this historic Red Wing bed & breakfast originally appeared on Bring Me The News. A Red Wing bed & breakfast that is on the National Registry of Historic Places has hit the market for $557,500. The stunning Italianate property at 706 W. 4th Street is home to the Pratt-Taber Inn, a boutique B&B a stone's throw from downtown Red Wing. It has now been listed for sale with Linda Everett of Edina Realty, which says it's being offered as either "a grand single-family home" or the possibility of it "continuing as a charming B&B." Sign up for our MINNESOTA PROPERTY newsletters View the 34 images of this gallery on the original article Constructed in 1860, the building was the winner of the 2008 Red Wing Heritage Preservation Award having been "meticulously renovated and maintained." Living spaces include a front and back parlor, dining room, and a gourmet kitchen, while sleeping accommodation includes four ensuite bedrooms with their own fireplaces. The owner's suite is extended, featuring a "bonus space" in the partially finished basement that comprises another living room, dining room, kitchen, and half-bath. The outside features several porches, a pergola-covered deck, and perennial gardens. Linda Everett, of Edina Realty, has the listing for 706 W. 4th St., Red Wing. Click here for more. This story was originally reported by Bring Me The News on Jun 12, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Greek Food Fair Festival helps keep Church in community
DES MOINES, Iowa — The 45th annual Greek Food Fair Festival is taking place this weekend, and while it's known for its delicious food and cultural performances, the festival has a greater impact on the Orthodox community in Des Moines. The festival is organized by the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George, and the St. Demetrius Serbian Orthodox Church also takes part. Greek and Serbian food draw hundreds of people to the Drake neighborhood during the first weekend in June every year. Peter Caldbeck, the Vice President of the Greek Orthodox Church, said that the festival is their largest fundraiser every year and is what allows them to stay in the community. The building that the Church is in was built in 1906 and is on the National Registry of Historic Places. Proceeds from the festival help with the upkeep of the building. 'We've been an anchor here for over 100 years, so that's something we take pride in and it helps with just the upkeep in the building and the running of the Church and our parish,' he said. Caldbeck said the Church redid their roof last month and last year's proceeds helped finance that project. The festival kicks off at 11 a.m. on Saturday and ends at 8 p.m. A new attraction this year is a free shuttle. People can part in the north lot of the Franklin Events Center, and a shuttle will arrive every twenty minutes to pick up people and take them to the Church. The Franklin Events Center is located at 4801 Franklin Avenue in Des Moines. Click here for the shuttle schedule. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
5 Things You Should Know About the Nottoway Plantation's Horrid Legacy
The Black social media-verse has been ablaze with reaction to the burning down of Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, La. Officials believe the cause of the 160-year-old structure's destruction may have been electrical. But it is a place of history, and what was lost despite what it represented was a window into the past that allows us to examine what the place really was. So here are some things you should understand about the now-burned Nottoway Plantation: The property was steeped in slavery as an industry. Nottoway was built between 1857 and 1859 for John Hampden Randolph (1813-1883), a sugar planter who owned three other plantations in Iberville Parish, La.; Blythewood, Forest Home, and Bayou Goula. He came from a family of cotton planters in Mississippi and began planting cotton in Louisiana in 1841. He switched to sugar cane, and slaves constructed the 53,000 square-foot property, through which he amassed significant wealth, according to his own papers. Some Black people at Nottoway resisted, but others found further misery. By 1860, Randolph held at least 155 human beings in bondage there. Little is known about them to this day, but according to Freedmen's Bureau records show that at least 11 people escaped during the Civil War. As the Union army drew near, Randolph took about 200 slaves from Nottoway and his other properties into Texas to grow cotton. After the war, they were freed, but 53 of them contracted with him to return. Economically, Nottoway was cursed for generations. Postwar hard times hit the South, and the plantation was significantly reduced in size. After Randolph's death, the place changed hands a number of times due to foreclosure, crop failure, tax issues, the sale of surrounding land, and other problems. At least two later owners unsuccessfully tried to make Nottoway a sugar plantation again. It wound up in the hands of widow Odessa Owen, who lived there alone, unable to care for the mansion on her own. Millionaires tried to keep profiting from the legacy. Nottoway joined the National Registry of Historic Places in 1980, and after two more sales, it went to Australian businessman Paul Ramsey in 1985. He turned the property into a popular tourist resort. Ramsey died in 2014 after pouring $15 million into Nottoway to fix it, but it was sold to New Orleans hotelier Joseph Jaeger for $3.1 million in 2019. He was killed in an auto accident in 2024, and ownership changed again last October to Dan Dyess, a Natchitoches lawyer and preservationist. The new owner doesn't get it. Dyess has been quoted in the media as intending good things for Nottoway. He has said that he and his wife are 'non-racist' people who understand how people feel about its past, but had 'nothing to do with slavery.' 'We are trying to make this a better place,' Dyess said, according to the New York Post. 'We don't have any interest in left-wing radical stuff. We need to move forward on a positive note here, and we are not going to dwell on past racial injustice.' Madison J. Gray is a New York-based journalist. He blogs at For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Dominion Post
20-05-2025
- Business
- Dominion Post
BOPARC putting a new roof on the Wiles Hill Community Center
MORGANTOWN — The Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners recently purchased a new lid for the Wiles Hill Community Center. During its most recent regular meeting, the board approved a contract with Sutter Roofing for $155,500 to replace the old building's roof. BOPARC Executive Director Melissa Wiles said she was pleased to see the bids come in under the project's original $200,000 budget. She hopes it stays that way. 'You never know with an old building. Keep your fingers crossed for no change orders,' she said. Sutter Roofing was one of five bidders to make an offer on the job. The same company is currently replacing the roof of the Morgantown Ice Arena as part of a larger renovation of that facility. Built in 1910, the Fourth Ward School – more commonly referred to as the Wiles Hill School – served its educational mission for 89 years. In 1939, it received an addition thanks to FDR's New Deal-era Public Works Administration. Shortly after consolidation forced the school's closure in 1999, the 14,000 square-foot building was sold to BOPARC. It's served as a community/senior center, artist haven, dance studio, fitness space, concert hall, cafe and all-around gathering spot since 2005 or so. The building was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 2004.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
BOPARC putting a new roof on the Wiles Hill Community Center
May 19—MORGANTOWN — The Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners recently purchased a new lid for the Wiles Hill Community Center. During its most recent regular meeting, the board approved a contract with Sutter Roofing for $155, 500 to replace the old building's roof. BOPARC Executive Director Melissa Wiles said she was pleased to see the bids come in under the project's original $200, 000 budget. She hopes it stays that way. "You never know with an old building. Keep your fingers crossed for no change orders, " she said. Sutter Roofing was one of five bidders to make an offer on the job. The same company is currently replacing the roof of the Morgantown Ice Arena as part of a larger renovation of that facility. Built in 1910, the Fourth Ward School — more commonly referred to as the Wiles Hill School — served its educational mission for 89 years. In 1939, it received an addition thanks to FDR's New Deal-era Public Works Administration. Shortly after consolidation forced the school's closure in 1999, the 14, 000 square-foot building was sold to BOPARC. It's served as a community /senior center, artist haven, dance studio, fitness space, concert hall, cafe and all-around gathering spot since 2005 or so. The building was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 2004.
