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🏡 Strolling the suburban-style "Luella A. Anderson" neighborhood, with Andy Sturdevant

Longfellow Whatever
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🏡 Strolling the suburban-style "Luella A. Anderson" neighborhood, with Andy Sturdevant
The Luella A. Anderson development, looking soutwhest toward the Minnehaha Academy Lower Campus | 📸: Longfellow Whatever

The "Luella A. Anderson" development stands out to anyone who wanders the southern reaches of Longfellow, even if they don't know it by name. It's a place where the neatly-gridded, bungalow-lined streets are suddenly interrupted by curving roads of postwar homes, often architecturally ambitious, with attached garages and split levels. It's a bit of an eerie liminal pocket that leaves a visitor feeling like they've stepped through some sort of portal into a slightly different world — and, in the case of Luella's off-kilter street alignments, sometimes confused as to how to get out.