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Germanic-American Institute
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
To hire a historical architect to conduct a conditions assessment of the George Gardner House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and currently in use by the Germanic-American Institute.
Ramsey
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Olmsted County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,300
To contract with qualified professionals to prepare a Historic Structure Report for the George Stoppel Farmstead, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, now used as an open air museum.
Olmsted
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City of Maplewood
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,800
To conduct an archaeological survey of the Gladstone Railroad Shops site using ground-penetrating radar preparatory to a masterplan
Ramsey
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1006 Summit Avenue Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,600
To research and write a script for an introductory video on the history of the Minnesota Governor's Residence (Horace Irvine House), listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
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1006 Summit Avenue Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,650
To acquire professional services in preparing a Historic Landscape Report preparatory to improving public access the history of the Horace Irvine House/Governor's Residence, listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Ramsey
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1006 Summit Avenue Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To prepare a comprehensive interpretive plan for the Governor's Residence to identify how best to reach their audience.

Ramsey
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1006 Summit Avenue Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To write and design a site guide for improved public access to the Minnesota Governor's Residence, which is the Horace Irvine House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
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1006 Summit Avenue Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To produce a short video introduction about the history, architecture, and use of the Horace Irvine House (Minnesota Governor's Residence), listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
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Ramsey County Law Library
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$33,095
To stabilize and conserve ten historic oil paintings (portraits of Minnesota Supreme Court justices) displayed in the St. Paul City Hall-Ramsey County Courthouse, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
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American Aviation Heritage Foundation
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,990
To document in 10-12 interviews the commercial history of Villaume Box & Lumber Company, St. Paul, which built combat gliders during World War II.
Ramsey
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American Aviation Heritage Foundation
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,909
To organize, catalog, and prepare a finding aid for documents, photographs, and other records relating to glider manufacture at Villaume Box & Lumber Co. in St. Paul during World War II
Ramsey
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MN Administrators of Special Education
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$46,450
To hire a qualified historian to research and prepare materials that will enable the public to more broadly access the story of people 21 years old and younger with disabilities, pre-1840 to 1960
Ramsey
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Jefferson Township
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000

To edit a manuscript on the history of the Winnebago Creek Valley, Jefferson Township, Houston County.

Houston
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Twin Cities Daily Planet
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,625

To compile source materials about theater history throughout the state of Minnesota from 1959 to 1981.

Ramsey
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Hmong Cultural Center
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To assemble historic resources preparatory to fabrication and installation of an exhibit on the history of Hmong immigration in Minnesota
Ramsey
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Friends of the Immigration History Research Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

This project requests funding to conduct and transcribe twelve oral history interviews focusing on the religious experience and interactions among immigrant groups in nine Twin Cities neighborhoods in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

Ramsey
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District 7 Planning Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,500
To document in 10 interviews the history of the immigrant gardening in Saint Paul
Ramsey
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Twin City Model Railroad Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To prepare a comprehensive interpretive plan for better public access to the history of model railroading.

Ramsey
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James J. Hill Reference Library
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,300
To restore and abate water infiltration of the marble entrance stairs on the James J. Hill Reference Library, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
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Sholom Community Alliance
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To document in 6 intergenerational interviews the history of how Jewish migration to Minnesota is transmitted to succeeding generations.

Ramsey
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Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,999
To research 16 prioritized anomalous readings on two previously undocumented maritime wrecks in Lake Minnetonka
Ramsey
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Envision Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
To professionally design web access to historical content of Legacy Letters vignettes
Ramsey
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Council on Black Minnesotans
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

The Council on Black Minnesotans in collaboration with the Minnesota Humanities Center will conduct approximately six statewide community forums.

Benton
Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns
Recipient
Quatrefoil Library
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,432
To digitize and make accessible two Twin Cities-area LGBT newspapers, 1977-2000.
Ramsey
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Jefferson Township
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To publish the book "History of the Winnebago Valley"
Houston
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Maplewood Area Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,745

To conduct research on the comprehensive history of Maplewood from the 1850s to present.

Ramsey
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Clearwater County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$405
To acquire 5 rolls of microfilmed newspapers for the county historical society's research library.
Clearwater
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Maplewood Area Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,565
To design, fabricate, and install an exhibit on post-World War II small dairy operations
Ramsey
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Grassroots Culture
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,645
To conduct 12 oral history interviews with residents of Minneapolis' North Side on the effects of the 2011 tornado.
Ramsey
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Minnesota State Fair Foundation
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,780
To conduct a general preservation assessment survey of the Minnesota State Fair archival materials and artifacts in the public history museum.
Ramsey
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YMCA Youth in Government
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

The Civics Education Coalition will create opportunities for students, enrich teacher capacity to engage students, and build state-wide networks. Work will include an interactive website, online youth summit, youth conference, new lessons for educators, teacher institutes, and expansion of the statewide Civic Education Network and its activities.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Statewide
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
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Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State (Civil War Commemoration Task Force)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To enable public access through a website on the Minnesota Civil War Sesquicentennial.

Ramsey
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Upper MN Valley Regional Development Commission
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire a qualified interpretive specialist to develop an interpretive plan for the history along 287 miles of the Minnesota River Valley National Scenic Byway.
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Redwood
Scott
Sibley
Swift
Traverse
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Clearwater County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,800
To add 49 standard Minnesota museum administration titles to broaden public accessibility.
Clearwater
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Minnesota's Historic Northwest
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To hire a qualified museum consultant to create a detailed exhibit concept for a traveling exhibit about northwestern Minnesota's fur trade history.

Becker
Beltrami
Clearwater
Kittson
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Red Lake
Roseau
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Lake Itasca Region Pioneer Farmers, Inc.
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,375
To re-install the historic steam-powered log carrier to the J.Neil's/Red Lake Indian Sawmill, a historically significant industrial artifact in northern Minnesota
Clearwater
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Ramsey County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,985
To fabricate and install the exhibit "New Land, New Life" that documents the first 100 years of Norwegian immigration to Minnesota
Ramsey
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City of New Prague
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire a qualified historian to conduct a historic context study for the City of New Prague.
Le Sueur
Scott
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Eighth Air Force Historical Society, Inc. - Minnesota Chapter
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,827
To transcribe 12 oral history interviews to provide public access to World War II veterans' experiences.
Ramsey
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Friends for a Non-Violent World
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To document in 10 interviews the history of Minnesota leaders in the peace and justice movement
Ramsey