All Projects

To hire a qualified historical architect and engineer to prepare an assessment of the foundation of Terrace Mill, listed in the National Register of Historic Places

Prospect House National Register Nomination

Recipient

Prospect House Museum

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$7,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To prepare a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the Prospect House, currently used as a Civil War museum.

Public Access and Digitization, Phase II

Recipient

Hibbing Historical Society

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$5,400

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To digitize 496 photographs documenting the history of Hibbing and make them accessible via a website.

Publication: History of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota

Recipient

Weavers Guild of Minnesota

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$10,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire qualified professionals to publish a book on the history of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota.

Purchase Data Loggers for Monitoring Galleries, Storage, and Library

Recipient

Wright County Historical Society

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$2,119

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To monitor the temperature and relative humidity in the Wright County Heritage Center in order to better preserve evidence documenting Wright County history.

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.

Reaching and gathering historical evidence of Alexander Faribault

Recipient

Rice County Historical Society

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$7,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To assemble historical resources pertaining to Alexander Faribault.

Reads Landing Schoolhouse: Fire Safety and Mitigation Equipment

Recipient

Wabasha County Historical Society

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$4,920

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To mitigate the risk of fire in the Reads Landing School, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Reads Landing School: Rehabilitation Project Construction Documents

Recipient

Wabasha County Historical Society

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$18,290

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To contract with qualified professionals to prepare construction documents for the restoration and preservation of the Reads Landing School, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and used as the Wabasha County History Museum.

Reads Landing Museum Interpretive Plan

Recipient

Wabasha County Historical Society

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$10,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire a qualified consultant to create an interpretive plan for exhibits at the historical society's Reads Landing Schoolhouse museum building.

Reads Landing School Exterior Rehabilitation: Construction

Recipient

Wabasha County Historical Society

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$303,410

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To preserve and restore windows, cornice, and brick on the Reads Landing School, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and currently used as the applicant's museum.

Recent Romanian Immigration to the Twin Cities Oral History

Recipient

Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans in Minnesota

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$14,940

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To document in 15 interviews the history of Romanian immigration to Minnesota after World War II.

Reconnaissance Survey of Princeton's Downtown

Recipient

City of Princeton

2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$6,630

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire a consultant to complete a reconnaissance survey of Princeton's downtown, approximately 50 commercial buildings.

Red Wing Historic Tours - Podcasts

Recipient

City of Red Wing

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$6,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To create and make available 28 podcasts for greater public access to Red Wing's historic resources.

Red Lake Negatives Digitization, Rehousing, and Cataloging Project

Recipient

Beltrami County Historical Society

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$4,325

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To provide better storage conditions and broaden public accessibility to photographic images in the collection.

Red Wing Fire Department Ahrens-Fox Fire Apparatus Preservation

Recipient

City of Red Wing

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$9,498

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire qualified conservators to restore a significant historical fire engine.

Rediscovering John Berryman Documentary

Recipient

The Film Society of Minneapolis-St. Paul

2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$7,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To assemble historical resources pertaining to John Berryman preparatory to a documentary film.

Redwood County Historical Society Website Redesign

Recipient

Redwood County Historical Society

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$3,600

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire a qualified web designer to increase public access through a website to Redwood County history.

Rehabilitation of North Star Blankets Historic Signs

Recipient

Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$247,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire qualified professionals to repair the North Star Blankets sign on the North Star Woolen Mill, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Rehabilitation of Historic City Hall/Community Center: Predevelopment

Recipient

City of Howard Lake

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$34,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire a qualified consultant to prepare planning documents that will help preserve the Howard Lake City Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Rehousing the HCS Oversize Collection

Recipient

Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$6,244

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To improve collections care and management through proper storage.

Repair and Conservation of Drawings of the Battle of Acton and the Hutchinson Stockade

Recipient

Brooklyn Historical Society

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$5,146

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To repair and conserve two pencil drawings of the 1862 Battle of Acton and Hutchinson Stockade.

Research for History of the Student Experience at Minnesota Liberal Arts Colleges

Recipient

Carleton College

2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$6,800

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To research and write a history of Carleton College from a student point of view, 1960-2010.

Researching 1960 - 2000 MN Special Education History

Recipient

Minnesota Special Education Leaders Foundation (MNSELF)

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$48,800

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire a qualified historian to conduct primary source research on the history of special education in Minnesota, 1960-2000.

Research and Scriptwriting for Travelling Exhibits

Recipient

Minnesota's Historic Northwest

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$9,664

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire a qualified historian to research and develop materials for traveling exhibits.

Restoration of the Soo Line Depot Museum Windows

Recipient

Cuyuna Iron Range Heritage Network

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$4,250

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To restore and repair windows on the Soo Line Depot, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and current home of the Cuyuna Iron Range Heritage Museum.

Restoration of Gethsemane Church Wing

Recipient

Preserve Appleton's Heritage Inc.

2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$4,758

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To complete interior restoration of the Gethsemane Episcopal Church, listed in the National Register of Historic Places

Restoration of Ramsey County Historic Judicial Portraits, Phase II

Recipient

Ramsey County Law Library

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$63,207

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire a qualified conservator to restore significant collections pieces.

Revitalization of Duluth Immigration Exhibit

Recipient

Historic Union Depot Corporation

2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$5,700

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To revitalize the immigration exhibit in the Duluth Union Depot, listed in the National Register of Historic Places

Riley-Jacques Farmstead Interpretive Plan

Recipient

City of Eden Prairie

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$10,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To hire a qualified consultant to write an interpretive plan for the Riley-Jacques Farmstead.

Rogers and Hassan Township Business Development Oral History

Recipient

Hassan Area Historical Society

2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$5,355

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To document in 12 interviews the commercial history of Rogers and Hassan Township.

We Rolled Up Our Sleeves MNopedia Entries

Recipient

Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$6,660

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To research and write 15 MNopedia entries about Minnesota's Jewish Community Institutions.

Romanian Immigration & Traditions Oral History Project

Recipient

Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans in Minnesota

2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$7,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To document in 10 interviews the history of Romanian immigration to the Twin Cities

Romanian Immigration to the Twin Cities Documentary Video

Recipient

Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans in Minnesota

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$10,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To create a documentary about the experiences of Romanian immigrants in Minnesota.

St. Rose Church National Register Nomination

Recipient

Friends of St. Rose, Inc.

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$4,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To produce the documents necessary to nominate and register the historic St. Rose of Lima Church to the National Register of Historic Places.

Sacred Heart Cathedral: Roof and Tower Restoration

Recipient

City of Duluth

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$168,525

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To stabilize structural elements and repair the roof of the Sacred Heart Cathedral, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and used as a music center.