"Open House: If These Walls Could Talk." Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, Minn.
Author(s):
Hass, Kristin
Format:
Journal article
Citation:
Journal Of American History, Volume 94, Issue 3 (2007-12). pp. 904-907.
Language:
English
Abstract:
Reviews the 'Open House: If These Walls Could Talk' long-term exhibition at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul. The exhibition examines the lives of some fifty families that have resided at 470/472 Hopkins Street in St. Paul's East Side Railroad Island neighborhood since the house was built in 1888. The exhibition separates these families from the larger "working-class" or "immigrant" description without severing their stories from the larger economic and political environment of the times. Utilizing public records, government documents, and oral histories, the exhibit reconstructs the stories of German, Italian, Swedish, African American, Latino, and Hmong families.