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Moose Lake Area Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To document in 5 interviews the history of the Moose Lake State Hospital.
Carlton
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Kandiyohi County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,095
To document in seven oral history interviews the history of downtown Willmar residents and businesses.
Kandiyohi
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Phyllis Wheatley Community Center
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To document in 4 interviews the history of inter-racial urban history from the 1960s-1990s.
Hennepin
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Minnesota Museum of Mining
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To prevent damage occurring to a 1907 steam locomotive, tender, ore cars, and caboose by repairing the railroad track upon which they rest.
St. Louis
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City of Fergus Falls
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To reprint the popular heritage tourism brochure to broaden access to historic resources in Fergus Falls
Otter Tail
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Clean Up The River Environment
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
To document in 15-20 oral history interviews the history of the movement across Minnesota to clean up the Minnesota River.
Big Stone
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Dakota County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,183

To document in 20 interviews the history of the Hastings State Hospital, 1938-1978.

Dakota
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Otter Tail County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To provide basic processing and rehousing of the photographic and negative collections of W.T. Oxley and Lloyd Oxley for public accessibility.
Otter Tail
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Austin Area Commission for the Arts, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To contract with a qualified professional to prepare a conditions assessment, update to the HSR recommendations, and prepare modest pre-design.
Mower
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Cook County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To revise a popular history education program to enable broader accessibility to historic resources.
Cook
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American Indian Family and Children's Services
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$192,000
To stabilize structural elements on the Pattern Shop, a contributing building in the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and now used as a social services facility.
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
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Golden Valley Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,990
To hire a consultant to research potential themes for upcoming permanent exhibits at Golden Valley Historical Society.
Hennepin
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Caponi Art Park
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,560

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

Dakota
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Minnesota Discovery Center
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,240
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
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Crow Wing County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,800
To hire a qualified archaeologist to conduct a Phase II archaeological survey of the Milford Mine Townsite.
Crow Wing
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Goodhue County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,962
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Goodhue
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Becker County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,830
To digitize 14,835 photographs to increase public access.
Becker
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University of Minnesota Foundation (University of Minnesota Press)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To publish a book tracing Minnesota railroading over the last seven decades through carefully selected photographs, maps, and ephemera.
Hennepin
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Dorothy Molter Foundation and Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,594
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic photographs held in public trust.
St. Louis
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Phyllis Wheatley Community Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To document in 8-9 oral history interviews the role the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center played in helping to achieve community stability in North Minneapolis, 1965-1972.
Hennepin
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Three Rivers Park District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,850
To fabricate and install an exhibit for more thorough public access to the story of Pierre Bottineau, an early and influential Minnesota resident
Hennepin
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Heritage Group North, Inc.
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,483
To purchase software that will allow better intellectual control of and public access to historical records and artifacts.
Cass
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Pine River Fire Department
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,390
To publish a history of the Pine River Fire Department, 1911-2011.
Cass
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Heritage Group North, Inc.
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,835
To add 68 standard Minnesota historic preservation and history titles to broaden public accessibility.
Cass
Crow Wing
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Heritage Group North, Inc.
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,799
To add 49 standard Minnesota museum titles to broaden public accessibility.
Cass
Crow Wing
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Pipestone Indian Shrine Association
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,000
To hire a qualified historical architect to prepare drawings preparatory to historic preservation work on the Pipestone Indian Boarding School Superintendent's Residence, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Pipestone
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City of Rochester
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$98,140
To install a professionally-designed environmental system to preserve the Henry S. Plummer House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Olmsted
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Pope County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$152,655
To restore the entrance and landscape of the Pope County Courthouse, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Pope
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Crow Wing County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,800
To conduct a reconnaissance archaeological survey of a purported pre-historic portage trail
Crow Wing
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Fridley Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,114

The Fridley Historical Society is applying for a grant that will enable us to hire an interviewer to conduct 15 oral histories in order to explore the post World War II suburban development of Fridley, and then have the histories transcribed.  Our intention is to cover the years 1945-1970, by which time Fridley was largely developed.

Anoka
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Minnesota Landmarks Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$126,625
To repair and restore historic copper work in the roof of the Old Federal Courts Building, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
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Dakota County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,631
To make accessible music composed by William G. LeDuc in the 1840s
Dakota
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Murray County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
To purchase proper archival storage materials for the historical society's newspaper collection.
Murray
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Koochiching County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,978
To organize, catalogue, and rehouse an extensive collection of maps and documents from the former Minnesota and Ontario Paper Mill, located in International Falls.
Itasca
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Preservation Alliance of Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To increase public access to tools the public needs in order preserve their built environments.
Ramsey
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University of Minnesota Libraries
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$159,205
To digitize and make publicly accessible 1,771 recordings documenting Minnesota theater history.
Hennepin
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Normandale Community College
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To conduct an expanded excavation of a multi-millenia archaelogical site.
Lyon
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City of Lanesboro
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000
To hire a qualified consultant to develop planning documents that will help preserve the Bethlehem Lutheran Church Hall, now Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Fillmore
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Ramsey County (Parks and Recreation Department)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire consultants to develop and install an exhibit on Keller Golf Course in Ramsey County.
Statewide
Ramsey