Godden on Lincoln Middle School historic landmark debate, La Crosse’s most endangered buildings

Laura Godden, a UW-La Crosse Archivist and member of Heritage Preservation Commission, in the WIZM studio Wednesday for La Crosse Talk PM, to discuss the city’s most endangered buildings, the controversy over making Lincoln Middle School a historic landmark and if K-Mart is next.

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Began the show, however, talking about what being an Archivist is and the kind of things she’s seen, while working at UW-L. After that, we talked a bit about the city’s Top 10 Most Endangered Buildings list and the thought process behind it.

The bottom half of the show, we dissected the Lincoln Middle School dilemma, where the Heritage Preservation Commission granted it landmark status, but the La Crosse School District is unhappy about that — and is trying to appeal the decision — because it is trying to sell the building. Godden breaks down why the district might actually benefit from historic status in selling Lincoln.

Lastly, we got Godden’s personal Top 10 Least Endangered Buildings list, which may or may not have had something to do with the food those buildings produced.