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Recipient
Polish Cultural Institute
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,980
Winona
Recipient
Historic St. Paul
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,460

Partner Organizations: Historic St. Paul, The St. Paul Heritage Preservation Commission and Ramsey County Historical Society.

Traditionally, the goal of historic properties surveys is to collect information to make determinations of National Register eligibility or local landmark designation. This ACHF project took that objective a step further.

Statewide
Recipient
Preserve Minneapolis
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

A consultant was hired to research and assemble materials to implement plans for the Summer 2011 Walking and Biking Tours to historic resources in the city of Minneapolis. Tour guides were recruited and 29 neighborhood routes were chosen. A brochure was created. A tour page was developed on the Preserve Minneapolis website and advertisements were posted in magazines , newspapers and on various non-profit websites. Preserve Minneapolis collaborated on this project with AIA MN and the Minneapolis HPC.

Hennepin
Recipient
City of Springfield
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,500

The city of Springfield hired a qualifed historian to conduct a historic context study of this brick manufacturing town. The result is a brief history of the city with an emphasis on its historic buildings. Copies were given to the City Council and Planning Commission, the city Library, the Springfield Historical society, The Brown County Historical society, the local state senator and representative, the local school and is available on the city website.

Amount adjusted as a survey is being completed through other sources.

Cottonwood
Recipient
City of Buffalo
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,720

The city hired a preservation consultant to complete a Historic Context Study for the City of Buffalo. The general history of the community, organized by theme, provides useful information about the city's historic resources. Copies of the completed report have been given to the City Council and Planning Commission, the City Library, the Wright County Historical Society, the state Senator and Representative for the area and is available on the City's website.

Wright
Recipient
Kandiyohi County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$58,034

To broaden public access to Kandiyohi County history through a marker system and accompanying guide brochure.

Kandiyohi
Recipient
City of Faribault
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,400
To augment access to the Faribault Commercial Historic District through 14 new podcasts available on the city's website
Rice
Recipient
City of Mankato
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To survey historic properties in the Mankato City Center area broadening access to local history
Blue Earth
Recipient
Heritage Group North, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
To hire a historian to prepare a nomination of the Pine River Depot for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places
Cass
Recipient
Houston County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,796
Houston
Recipient
MLK Tennis Buffs
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$393,619

History Day, an annual program co-sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society and the University of Minnesota, challenges young people to research a historical subject related to an annual theme and present their findings in the form of exhibits, documentaries, performances, web sites and papers, much like a "science fair for history."

Arts and Cultural Heritage funding made it possible for the Society to provide additional services to 118 schools in 39 counties across the state.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$142,873

Partner Organization: University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

This program, sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society and the University of Minnesota, provided 10 undergraduate college students with the opportunity to become History Museum Fellows in 2010.

The program launched with a semester-long course at the University of Minnesota where the students were introduced to issues related to diversity and museums, followed by a paid summer internship at the Society.

Statewide
Recipient
MN Administrators of Special Education
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,998

This project provided documentation of the oral histories of former local directors of Special Education who were involved in implementing changes in policy and services for children with disabilities and their families in Minnesota during the 1950's to the 2000's. Seven interviews and a three-person panel discussion were conducted, recorded and transcribed. The interviews and transcriptions are available at the Minnesota Administrators of Special Education (MASE) office and the Minnesota History Center.

Ramsey
Recipient
University UNITED
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To gather and analyze historic resources preparatory to providing public access through interpretation to a segment of University Avenue history
Ramsey
Recipient
Hmong Cultural Center of Minnesota
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Ramsey
Recipient
City of Hokah
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,400

Hokah city history was put on display with the installation of six historical markers in various locations throughout the city. The markers consist of narrative information and photographs of historically relevant structures. All markers are ADA height, located in high traffic areas and are enhanced, produced and presented under a silicone hardcoat panel. An unveiling ceremony was held in June, 2011.

Houston
Recipient
Ukrainian American Community Center
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,600
Hennepin
Ramsey
Statewide
Recipient
Sacred Heart Area Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$199,150
Renville
Recipient
City of Atwater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$65,485
To provide structural repair and fire protection to the Hotel Atwater, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, for use as a municipal building.
Kandiyohi
Recipient
Friends of the Immigration History Research Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,123
To collect data and conduct oral history interviews on congregations and houses of worship in nine neighborhoods in the Twin Cities near the Mississippi River between 1849-1924.
Hennepin
Recipient
RESPEC
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$96,998
Fund Source

The primary goal of this project is to train the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency staff in Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) model calibration of nutrients, oxygen demand, and algal processes and in MATLAB script development for model output processing and report generation. Additionally, a pilot application process will be developed to link HSPF applications to Water quality Analysis Simulation Program (WASP) to take advantage of the advanced sediment oxygen demand processes.

Statewide
Recipient
RESPEC
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$96,618
Fund Source

This project will support construction of three watershed framework models built using the Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF). These executable models will simulate hydrology at the subbasin scale. An HSPF model will be built for each of three major watersheds: the Crow River/North Fork Crow River, the South Fork Crow River, and the Sauk River.

Carver
Douglas
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Renville
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Wright
Recipient
AQUA TERRA Consultants
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,950
Fund Source

This project will support construction of three watershed framework models built using the Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF). These executable models will simulate hydrology at the subbasin scale. An HSPF model will be built for each of these major watersheds: Crow Wing River, Redeye River, and Long Prairie River.

Becker
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
RESPEC
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$149,677
Fund Source

This project will finalize HSPF watershed model construction and complete the calibration/validation process for the following three watersheds: North Fork Crow River, South Fork Crow River, and Sauk River.

Carver
Douglas
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Renville
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Wright
Recipient
Emmons and Olivier Resources, Inc. (EOR)
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
Fund Source

This project will complete the development of two watershed HSPF models for the Mustinka River and Bois de Sioux River watersheds. These calibrated and validated executable models will simulate hydrology at the 12-digit HUC subbasin scale.

Big Stone
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
Itasca County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,600
Itasca
Recipient
Afton Historical Society and Museum
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,950
Washington
Recipient
City of Hewitt
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,950

A professional heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) engineer was hired to conduct an HVAC evaluation comparing the relative merits and costs of  a conventional HVAC system with a geothermal system.  The result was the geothermal system was more expensive with a fifty-year payback term. Purchasing a conventional system was recommended as the upgrade for meeting climate standards.

Todd
Recipient
Le Sueur County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,500
To hire a qualified HVAC engineer to prepare planning documents for a future project to improve environmental conditions for the Elysian School, listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Le Sueur
Recipient
Rapidan Heritage Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,655

An interpretive exhibit was created with table displays using historically factual text and illustrative photographs and a short play was developed to tell the story of how the dam was built and its affect on the local people and economy. The exhibit counters negative impressions about the dam and provides little known information to the public.

Blue Earth
Recipient
RESPEC
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$174,579
Fund Source

This project will construct, calibrate, and validate two Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed models. The consultant will produce HSPF models that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDLs) at the Big Fork River and Little Fork River watersheds.

Itasca
Koochiching
St. Louis
Recipient
RESPEC
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$214,963
Fund Source

This project will complete spatial and temporal revisions of 6 Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) models, the recalibration and validation of 7 watershed HSPF models, and the revision of the drainage network and point source representation of the Pomme de Terre HSPF model.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Cottonwood
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Hennepin
Jackson
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Martin
McLeod
Murray
Nicollet
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Polk
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Waseca
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
India Association of Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

This project is sixth in a series between the India Association of Minnesota and the Minnesota Historical Society. It was developed to convey the history of the Indian Music Society of Minnesota (IMSOM) in three ways:

1. The collection and transcription of seven interviews telling the oral history of IMSOM.

2. The digitization of thirty years of concert performance recordings by leading musiciains from India as well as local artists.

Ramsey
Recipient
UMD, NRRI
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$507,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Cook
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Shell Rock River Watershed District
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000

This project will develop and implement a model stormwater water quality credit trading framework. The purpose is to provide voluntary, cost effective, pollutant reductions on a watershed scale.

Freeborn
Recipient
Dakota County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Fund Source

Lebanon Regional Park, implement elements of the Visitor Center Interpretive Concept Plan to engage, educate, inform and encourage stewardship and preservation.

Dakota
Recipient
Dakota County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$144,987
Fund Source

County-wide signage improvements at all regional parks and trails.

Dakota
Recipient
U of MN
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000

Winter sport fishing for trout is a vibrant industry, but can be impacted by changing climate. We seek to understand how to conserve trout habitat, especially focusing on winter management.

Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Recipient
Dodge County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,225
Fund Source

Agricultural drainage is very prevalent practice in Dodge County and there is a need to implement practices to that will better manage flow and pollutant loads that are being contributed to nearby surface waters. This project involves the installation of a woodchip bioreactor on a tile-drained agricultural field, which will feature improvements in design, and monitoring scope, as compared to a previous bioreactor constructed in Dodge County in 2007.

Dodge