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City of Faribault
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
To preserve the smokestack on the Faribault Woolen Mill, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as a significant cultural heritage landmark that is otherwise obsolete to business operations
Rice
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First Congregational Church of Minnesota - United Church of Christ
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,500
To hire a qualified consultant to develop planning documents that will help preserve the First Congregational Church of Minnesota, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Hennepin
Recipient
City of New Ulm
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire qualified professionals to write a structural assessment of the Frederick W. Kiesling House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Brown
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Germanic-American Institute
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$83,200
To repair and restore the gutter system and cornice assembly of the George W. Gardner House, a contributing feature of the Historic Hill District 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
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To facilitate publication of a booklet on the history and use of the Governor's Residence.
Ramsey
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Grant County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire a qualified and experienced historian to prepare a Cultural Landscape Report that will guide future preservation projects on the grounds of the Grant County Courthouse, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Grant
Recipient
Brown County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate the current system preparatory to better control of the Brown County Historical Society museum environment.
Brown
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Menahga Area Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate current system preparatory to better control of the Menahga Area Museum environment.
Wadena
Recipient
Rice County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,800
To research and compile resources documenting the 14 years that influential philanthropist Evangeline Marrs Whipple spent in Minnesota.
Rice
Statewide
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City of Afton
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,850
To hire a consultant to review the City of Afton's existing design guideline ordinance for the historic Old Village area and develop an updated, illustrated set of design guidelines for Old Village historic properties.
Washington
Recipient
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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Alliance Francaise of the Twin Cities
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire a consultant to develop the first phase of a Historic Structures Report for the Alliance Francaise building, part of the Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Hennepin
Recipient
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
Recipient
Ramsey County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,889
To document in 20 oral history interviews the history of HIV/AIDS healthcare providers in Minnesota.
Statewide
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Waseca County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
To hire a qualified historian to evaluate the Hoffmann Honey Farm (Janesville Township) for possible inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places
Waseca
Recipient
The Bakken Museum
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,900
To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate the current system preparatory to better control of the Bakken Museum environment.
Hennepin
Recipient
Itasca County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$63,130
To implement recommendations from an HVAC evaluation that will ensure better climate control for the preservation of historic resources documenting Itasca County history.
Itasca
Recipient
Proctor Area Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire a qualified museum consultant to develop an interpretive plan for a railroad history gallery.
Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Transportation Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To complete an interpretive plan for the museum in order to make more effective use of limited resources to better serve the public.
Statewide
Ramsey
Recipient
Saint Louis County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,585
To document in 10 interviews the history of "B" Company, 4th Marine Battalion, in the Korean War
St. Louis
Recipient
Itasca County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,887
To prepare new artifact storage space in the museums collections area by installing appropriate lighting.
Itasca
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Greater Litchfield Opera House Association, Inc.
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,893
To create restrooms that meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements in the Litchfield Opera House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Meeker
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City of Luverne
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,600
To acquire professional services that will comprehensively evaluate Luverne's commercial district for possible inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places
Rock
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Scott County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,650

This grant application is being submitted for funding for the implementation portion of the Scott County Historical Society’s upcoming exhibit “Marking Time:  The Rituals of Life & Death”.  Virtually every society in the world practice rituals marking the significant transitions between birth and death.

Scott
Recipient
Martin County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,022
To hire a qualified professional to develop a comprehensive disaster plan.
Martin
Recipient
American Craft Council
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,575
To document in eight oral history interviews the history of the St. Croix Valley Potters.
Chisago
Washington
Recipient
Truman Historical Association
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,885
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.
Martin
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Marshall-Lyon County Library
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,872
To add 76 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Lyon
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,159
To microfilm two years of Scott County newspapers to broaden public accessibility.
Scott
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Minnesota Council on Foundations
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,797
To document in eight oral history interviews the history of philanthropy in Minnesota.
Statewide
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The Performance Lab
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To document in 3 interviews the history of modern dance educators in the 1960s.
Statewide
Recipient
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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Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,230
To research and analyze the few existing dugout canoes in the State of Minnesota.
Aitkin
Carver
Chippewa
Dodge
Hennepin
McLeod
Meeker
Ramsey
Wright
Recipient
Preserve Minneapolis
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To set up the Preserve Minneapolis website with update technology to support the Old Highland Neighborhood Association walking tours.
Hennepin
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,949
To develop a portable exhibit for campus buildings and the school museum.
Statewide
Rice
Recipient
Minnesota's Historic Northwest
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
To add 39 standard Minnesota museum studies titles to increase capacity for preserving and interpreting history
Pennington
Recipient
Friends of B'nai Abraham Synagogue
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,760
To mitigate moisture damage to the rear egress of the B'nai Abraham Synagogue, listed in the National Register of Historic Places
St. Louis
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Winona State University
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,400
To hire a qualified historian to complete the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for Phelps and Somsen Halls on the campus of Winona State University.
Winona
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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