Rabu, 01 Maret 2017

The Mesker Brothers Found Good Business In Putting up False Fronts on the Frontier

Restored Mesker facades still grace buildings in Western towns. “I just did not want anything bad to happen to it,” Barbara Corson says about the building she purchased and renovated in McGregor, Iowa, in 1981. “I knew it was special just by the way it looked.” As it turns out, Corson had rescued a superior …

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