Newly designated historic house holds the story of a Minneapolis family’s rise from poverty to prosperity
(via MinnPost )
Mark and Gloria Bell knew the Minneapolis house they were remodeling might have an interesting history when they found a notebook stuffed in the wall of a third-floor room. Someone named Claire had traced an outline of her child-sized hand on the paper.
The little girl was Claire Rappaport. Daughter of Edward and Augusta, she was one of five children raised in the house at 636 Elwood Ave. N. between 1924 and 1946…
