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"My 3000 Mile Hike to San Francisco" Research Project

Recipient

North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$7,130

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To research context for a manuscript by then 16-year-old Leon Blehart about a 1915 hike from St. Paul to San Francisco.

City of Pine River, MN Walking Tour – Phase Two

Recipient

Heritage Group North, Inc.

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$7,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To enhance an existing walking tour with 14 kiosks broadening public access to Pine River's history.

Completing the Circle: Documenting the Minneapolis American Indian Community

Recipient

MIGIZI Communications

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$81,490

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To complete research on the impact of the Federal Urban Indian Relocation Program in Minneapolis.

Contributing Member of the Lanesboro Historic District: Survey

Recipient

Lanesboro Arts Center

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$6,075

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To survey the exterior of the building, make historically sensitive recommendations, and create construction-ready documents for needed improvements that will enhance the exterior of the historic building without negatively impacting the historic structure.

Digitize B&W Negative Collection

Recipient

Cass County Historical Society

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$5,516

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To provide better public access to 1,012 black and white negatives documenting Cass County history through a digitization project

Heimbygda Lodge Historical Building Project

Recipient

City of Lanesboro

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$10,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire a contractor to repair the front entry and ADA ramp on the Heimbygda Lodge, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Historic Preservation Training at the 2013 Preserve Minnesota Conference

Recipient

City of Lanesboro

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$6,624

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To provide supplemental training opportunities at the 2013 Preserve Minnesota conference.

John M. Rohr Historic Film Digital Conversion Project

Recipient

Heritage Group North, Inc.

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$7,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To digitize the contents of the John M. Rohr Film Collection, 16mm film shot in Pine River MN from the 1940s through the 1960s.

Lanesboro Arts Center HVAC Assessments

Recipient

Lanesboro Arts Center

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$5,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate current system preparatory to better control of the Lanesboro Art Center.

Lodge Zare Zapadu #44 Historical Marker

Recipient

Freeborn County

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$2,830

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To purchase 81 rolls of microfilmed newspapers from bordering communities that include Freeborn County history.

Microform Reader/Printer Acquisition

Recipient

Fillmore County Historical Society

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$7,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To make accessible primary records through a new microfilm reader/printer.

Milwaukee Elevator: Reconstruction of Additions

Recipient

Preston Historical Society

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$25,103

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To contract with qualified professionals to prepare construction documents for the reconstruction of missing historic features on the Milwaukee Elevator, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and used as a trailhead facility.

National Register Evaluation for the Rushford Public School

Recipient

Rushford-Peterson Schools

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$6,995

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To prepare a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the Rushford Ementary and High School.

Natural History Collections Inventory

Recipient

Headwaters Science Center

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$6,279

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.

Pine River Depot Museum Historic Preservation & Minnesota History Bookshelves

Recipient

Heritage Group North, Inc.

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$1,835

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To add 68 standard Minnesota historic preservation and history titles to broaden public accessibility.

Pine River Depot Museum Minnesota Museum Bookshelf

Recipient

Heritage Group North, Inc.

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$1,799

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To add 49 standard Minnesota museum titles to broaden public accessibility.

Purchase Olmsted County Newspapers on Microfilm

Recipient

Olmsted County Historical Society

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$8,129

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To add 90 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records.

Security System for the Depot Museum

Recipient

Rushford Area Historical Society

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$6,487

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To install a security system for a collection that documents history in the Rushford area.

Southeast Minnesota Preservation Partnership

Recipient

Preservation Alliance of Minnesota

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$80,310

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Partner Organizations: Kasson Alliance for Restoration, Mantorville Restoration Association, Friends of Mayowood, Denmark Township Historical Society, Friends of Saint Rose, Preservation Lake City, County Historical Societies, Red Wing Downtown Main Street, Winona Main Street, Winona Area Chamber of Commerce, Faribault Main Street, and Faribault Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism PAM will work to provide its partners with staff support, administration, supervision, and additional preservation and planning expertise.

Spring Valley Methodist Episcopal Church: Re-Roofing

Recipient

Spring Valley Historical Society

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$58,800

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To replace the roof of the Methodist Episcopal Church, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and currently used as the Spring Valley History Museum.

StEPs: Professionalizing Museum Direction

Recipient

Lanesboro Historical Preservation Association

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$290

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To grow the capacity of the organization to preserve and interpret history through a national training standard.

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