29 September 2008
This is short notice, but readers of this site within driving distance of Minneapolis will want to take advantage of a tour of Purcell & Elmslie houses occurring on 4 October. Visit the website of the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota for more details.

The mapping project has slowed down a little bit, as I'm working on Oak Park, the grandaddy of all PS destinations. The listing for that city has 156 buildings at present, the largest number for an single municipality. Google Maps requires the manual entry of GPS coördinates and text information (name of property and link to PST page, address, architect and date) for each building, the scrolling, cutting & pasting for which, though not difficult, would probably send me directly to the hospital with some sort of repetitive strain injury if undertaken entirely at one sitting.

18 September 2008
Quincy is now mapped.

14 September 2008
Maps for Saint Paul, Sioux City and Waterloo have been added.

13 September 2008
This week has seen the realization of a long-held dream for the Prairie School Traveler: the inclusion of maps in these pages. Mason City is the first to benefit from this resource, followed today by Minneapolis. Other metropolitan areas and corridors will follow.

These maps use the Google Maps API and the wonders of JavaScript, the language and logic of which is completely foreign to me. Needless to say, a lengthy period of trial and error preceded the appearance of maps on this site. However, I believe that the wrinkles are ironed out. If you should find otherwise, I would certainly appreciate a note from you.