Heritage Preservation - 07/24/2023APPROVED MINUTES
EDEN PRAIRIE HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION
MONDAY, JULY 24, 2023
7:00 P.M. Meeting
Heritage Rooms, City Hall
HPC COMMISSION MEMBERS: Steve Schumacher (Chair); Paul Thorp
(Vice-Chair); Rod Fisher; George Maxwell;
Robert Bowes; Andy Ludowese; Melanie
Willett; Catherine Lau
COMMISSION STAFF: Beth Novak-Krebs, Staff Liaison
Kristin Harley, Recording Secretary
I. CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL
Chair Schumacher called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. All commission members
were present. Carol Kissner, Claude Buettner and Mike Rogers attended the meeting.
II. READING OF LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT STATEMENT
Lau read the land acknowledgement statement.
III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
MOTION: Fisher moved, seconded by Bowes to approve the agenda with the removal of
Item VI B. Motion carried 8-0.
IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
MOTION: Thorp moved, seconded by Maxwell to approve the minutes of the June 26,
2023 minutes to correct typos of personal names. Motion carried 8-0.
V. NEW BUSINESS
A. FIVE-MINUTE HISTORY REPORT (THORP)
Novak-Krebs displayed the mill site map and Thorp explained Isaac K Crowe
built it and ran it until the 1890s. The two stone foundations had been discussed at
the previous meeting. He pointed these out and explained the location of a house
he thought was contemporary with the mill. He pointed out the realignment of
Pioneer Trial to accommodate the mill and the location of the water channel for
the mill race. He explained he found this information in Crowes’ letters and the
book The First Hundred Years.