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LITTLE DUBLIN. Area of Dubuque originally settled by Irish immigrants. Prior to the 1986 reconstruction of Highway l51, the State Office of Historic Preservation required the Department of Transportation to document the homes found in the area built between 1870 and 1920. | [Image:LITTLEDUBLIN.jpg|left|thumb|350px|Named for the large Irish population in the area, "Little Dublin" was located on the southern end of Dubuque. The picture shows Dodge Street west of Bluff in the 1880s. Photo courtesy: Bob Reding]]LITTLE DUBLIN. Area of Dubuque originally settled by Irish immigrants. Prior to the 1986 reconstruction of Highway l51, the State Office of Historic Preservation required the Department of Transportation to document the homes found in the area built between 1870 and 1920. | ||
Colorado historian and architect, Clayton Fraser, spent an estimated five hundred hours examining, researching, photographing, and writing about fourteen homes in the area squeezed between the bluffs and South Locust Street. | Colorado historian and architect, Clayton Fraser, spent an estimated five hundred hours examining, researching, photographing, and writing about fourteen homes in the area squeezed between the bluffs and South Locust Street. | ||
Revision as of 15:04, 2 June 2011
[Image:LITTLEDUBLIN.jpg|left|thumb|350px|Named for the large Irish population in the area, "Little Dublin" was located on the southern end of Dubuque. The picture shows Dodge Street west of Bluff in the 1880s. Photo courtesy: Bob Reding]]LITTLE DUBLIN. Area of Dubuque originally settled by Irish immigrants. Prior to the 1986 reconstruction of Highway l51, the State Office of Historic Preservation required the Department of Transportation to document the homes found in the area built between 1870 and 1920.
Colorado historian and architect, Clayton Fraser, spent an estimated five hundred hours examining, researching, photographing, and writing about fourteen homes in the area squeezed between the bluffs and South Locust Street.
The completed document, submitted to the National Park Service in Denver, Colorado, was to be placed in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.