We're Still Here: Glendale Townhomes 70th Anniversary exhibit

On Saturday May 13, 2023, 4 - 8pm, at Luxton Park, a Prospect Park neighborhood celebration was held to commemorate Glendale Townhomes 70th Anniversary, 1952-2022.

A 15-panel Exhibit displayed, chronicled and documented Glendale through these 7 decades as displayed in the slideshow on this page.

From the Flyer:

"Celebrate with Glendale families the opning of the 70th Anniversary of Glendale Townhomes. The Exhibit shows how public housing families made Glendale a vibrant and resilient community and why Glendale Townhomes is a model of what public housing communities should look like. The Exhibit will share the long history of displacing and attacking similar public housin communities locally and nationally and the recent privatization and demolition plans by the City of Minneapolis on Glendale and the entire public housing stock.

We are still here. Please join in honoring our history and resistance. There will be music, food, and family activities.

We are celebrating 70 years of Glendale Townhomes today, tomorrow, and forever.

The Glendale Exhibit and Community Event is sponsored by:

Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition, www.dgphc.org, and

Minnesota Transform, www.minnesotatransform.com"

• Glendale Area of Prospect Park Neighborhood
• Glendale History

Glendale LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION

• Glendale Townhomes: An Assessment of National Register Eligibility, Hess, Roise & Company, 2015
• Glendale Neighborhood History
• "Glendale Townhomes in Prospect Park: Proposed 13-acre Sale of Public Housing to Private Developers" - report by Prospect Park Association Glendale Committee
• Glendale Townhomes historic designation nomination application.
• MPHA Glendale Information
• Prospect Park Association "Unified Project Design Standards"

Luxton Park, part of the Minneapolis Parks System, is a 4.5-acre recreation area with a basketball court, community gardens, picnic areas, a soccer and softball field, wading pool and walking path. Luxton Community Center lies at the center of the park.