All Projects

To hire a qualified architect to develop architectural drawings for the Riley Bartholomew House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

To conduct a basic processing project that will prepare archives collections for public access.

To contract with qualified professionals to prepare construction documents for the preservation of the Carnegie Library, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

To hire qualified consultants to develop and install an exhibit on Minnesota author and artist Peter Rosendahl's comic strip "Han Ola og han Per."

To hire a qualified archaeologist to conduct a survey of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum located at 2151 Lindbergh Drive South, Little Falls, MN .

To hire a qualified consultant to write an exhibit design and development documents to enhance and broaden the George Daniels exhibit.

To hire a qualified historian to research the history of African-Americans in Duluth.

To augment a National Endowment for the Humanities exhibit at the county museum with mobile electronic access to the historic built environment

To hire a qualified consultant to write a feasibility study for the reuse of the 1889 Phelps Mill Store, Underwood, MN.

To hire qualified professionals to repair building elements on the Phelps Mill, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The most imminent threat to Phelps Mill, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is fire. If struck by lightning the wood frame building would be destroyed in minutes. Period photographs indicate that at least three lightning rods were on the mill as early as 1900. When the mill closed in 1939, the rods remained on the roof until 1965 when the county board purchased the site as a county park. Shortly thereafter, the rods were removed when the roof was repaired and shingles replaced.

To provide appropriate storage materials for a photograph collection.

The project will locate, digitize, register (in PastPerfect), preserve and maintain the photo collection at the Dodge County Historical Society

To provide better organization of a photograph collection, allowing for greater public access to this historic resource.

A book on the historical development of the built environment of Montevideo was published by the Clean Up the River Environment group. The full-color, softcovered book of photographs was researched, developed and written by authors: Dr. Odell M. Bjerkness, Wayne R. Ostlie and Dr. Paul E. Ostlie. The book details the pictorial history of Montevideo, and its vicinity, from 1870-1940. 1000 copies were stipulated for this project.

A new interpretive exhibit was installed in the North Gallery of the History Center of Olmsted County. The exhibit examines the interaction between culture, place and the environment. Comparisons between the natural and the man-made help to inform perceptions of home and the familiar. The public is able to explore the relationship of the built environment to the natural environment.