The neighborhood west of Montrose Boulevard was once a peaceful place, with little more to distinguish it than the stodgy Lee mansion at the corner of West Alabama, saluting the world as it passed faster and faster each year. The Lee mansion became the University of St. Thomas, and then it became a foil for the modernistic fortress of a campus that sprouted behind it. Long black bones of skeletal arcades and severely edged pink brick boxes, built with their backs to the streets, mock the finicky angularity of the old house. Around the school the sidewalks still have a quiet, small-town feeling to them. But tucked into the center of the neighborhood is a circle of little cottages all painted the same distinctive deep…
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