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Fort Snelling, Pike Island, and Sibley Historic Site, ca. 1840

The intersection of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers (Bdote), including Fort Snelling and Pike Island (Wita Tanka). The Sibley Historic Site is in the center foreground. Oil-on-canvas painting by Edward Kirkbride Thomas, ca. 1840.

Sibley Historic Site

Sibley Historic Site (1357 Sibley Memorial Highway, Mendota), ca, 2010s.

416-430 First Avenue North, Minneapolis

The intersection of Fifth Street North and First Avenue North in the Warehouse District of Minneapolis. Photograph by Jet Lowe, April 14, 1990. David Madson moved into an apartment a few blocks away from this intersection in about 1988.

David Madson's design for an AIDS memorial

David Madson's design for an AIDS memorial, ca. 1997. The design was the centerpiece of his master's thesis in architecture for the University of Minnesota Duluth. Used with the permission of a friend of David Madson.

David Madson presenting his design for an AIDS memorial

David Madson (left) presenting his design for an AIDS memorial, ca. 1997. The design was the centerpiece of his master's thesis in architecture for the University of Minnesota. Duluth. Used with the permission of a friend of David Madson.

David Madson

David Madson, undated.

Madson, David Jon (1963–1997)

David Madson was a Minneapolis-based architect who worked for a retail marketing firm while attending the University of Minnesota to complete his master’s degree in architecture. He designed an AIDS memorial in the mid-1990s, when few memorials for the disease existed and the epidemic was at its height. He was involved in the local queer and leather communities, frequented gay bars, and attended HIV/AIDS fundraisers. Madson is widely known as the second victim of spree killer Andrew Cunanan, who murdered him in Chisago County, Minnesota, in 1997.