- July 23, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
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Literally.
Janousek, the first female ambrotypist to use the 170-year-old collodion method in the state, moved her studio from the old Mapleton, N.D., school to the old Dakota Business College building, 11 8th St. S., last week.
“My space is unbelievable,” Janousek says. “I’m the entire top floor. It’s a classroom, so there’s hardwood floors and the original tin ceilings and these huge windows all around. It’s like a dream. I can’t believe I have this space.”
When negotiating with landlord Frank Leland “Lee” Watkins on rent, Watkins learned that Janousek had once studied opera. He requested she sing an Italian opera song for him, which she did.
It sealed the deal: She got the…
