Lincoln and S. Second Sts.

823 South Second St. is the white painted brick, Italianate style home from just before the turn of the century. 817 South Second Street. The Newbury apartment building is from the late teens, and an example of  Elizabethan Half-Timber Revival Style.    811 South Second St. is a red brick Queen Anne style home from the 1880’s.  Notice how all the homes blend together into a rather pleasant streetscape that is common to the neighborhood. Now note the apartment on the corner of Grove Street at 107.  Compare and contrast this apartment with the building you just passed.  How does this fit in the neighborhood?  What could have been done to improve it so that it fits better into the fabric of the area?   Continue walking on South Second Street to Liberty Street.

South Second and Liberty Sts.
	720 South Second St.  You have just passed a large-massed building with a low portico or walkway running across the front.  What is this building?  How do you know?  Besides the signs, what tells you that it is a church?  This is a design common to suburbia, but does it fit in “Old Mankato”? Now look back across the street at the building on the corner of Grove Street (729 South Second Street).  Is that a church? No, but it was.  Today it is home to Two Fish Recording Studios and a private residence.  It is being adaptively reused.  How does it fit in the streetscape?  Should it be torn down? Continue along Second past Liberty to Warren Street.
720 S. Second Street

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