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Olmsted County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To make accessible primary records through a new microfilm reader/printer
Olmsted
Recipient
Rice County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To make accessible primary records through a new microfilm reader/printer
Rice
Recipient
Cokato Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To create digital user copies of approximately 1,400 5x7 glassplate negatives from the Gust Akerlund Photography Studio Collection
Wright
Recipient
Olmsted County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,112
To gain intellectual and physical control over a significant historical architectural drawing collection documenting the built environment of Rochester
Olmsted
Recipient
Carleton College
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire qualified professionals to produce a manuscript on the history of Carleton College's Chapel and Chaplaincy.

Statewide
Rice
Recipient
Rice County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,725
To improve to museum standards the storage of approximately 110 textiles documenting Rice County.
Rice
Recipient
Rochester Park and Recreation Dept.
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,800
To document in 4 interviews with Dakota elders the cultural history of Indian Heights Park in Rochester
Olmsted
Recipient
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
Recipient
Judy Garland Children's Museum
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,330

To hire a qualified historian to conduct primary source research on the history of the Gumm and Milne families in Minnesota.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Carlton
Hennepin
Itasca
Ramsey
St. Louis
Recipient
City of Appleton
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$58,200

To strengthen a large partnership, including American Indian partners, as they improve and make available more historic information about the Minnesota River Valley.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Norman
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sibley
Swift
Traverse
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Valley Grove Preservation Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire a qualified and experienced historian to prepare a Historic Structures Report that will guide future preservation projects.
Rice
Recipient
Northfield Public Library
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To draft a full length manuscript on the institutional history of Northfield Public Library
Rice
Recipient
Independent School District #659
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified professional to complete a manuscript on the history of the Northfield public schools.
Dakota
Goodhue
Rice
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
Northfield Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To conduct an item-level conditions assessment of the museum collections.
Rice
Recipient
Mahnomen County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,120

To microfilm Mahnomen County and Tribal newspapers to make primary records more accessible to the public.

Mahnomen
Recipient
Upper MN Valley Regional Development Commission
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire a qualified interpretive specialist to develop an interpretive plan for the history along 287 miles of the Minnesota River Valley National Scenic Byway.
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Redwood
Scott
Sibley
Swift
Traverse
Yellow Medicine
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
Recipient
Mahnomen County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,555
To add 44 standard Minnesota museum administration titles to broaden staff development.
Mahnomen
Recipient
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
Todd County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$564
To rehouse and store according to archival standards four Todd County newspapers.
Todd
Recipient
Mahnomen County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,860
To improve the organization's ability to secure collections held in the public trust
Mahnomen
Recipient
City of Northfield (Northfield Hospital and Clinics)
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified professional to produce a manuscript on the history of the Northfield City Hospital.
Dakota
Goodhue
Rice
Scott
Recipient
Northfield Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$79,320
To provide storage that meets museum standards through improving lighting and purchase of compressible shelving for the NHS artifact collections
Rice
Recipient
Northfield Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To improve collections care and storage of Northfield history at 11 organizations
Rice
Recipient
Northfield Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,868
To hire a qualified museum consultant to write a historic site disaster plan.
Rice
Recipient
Norwegian-American Historical Association
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To scan and make digitally accessible 37,000 biographical records documenting Norwegian-Americans.
Rice
Recipient
Perpich Center for Arts Education
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$795,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000

The Perpich Arts Integration Network of Teachers (PAINT) fosters collaborative arts integration in Minnesota through K-12 teacher professional development and funding to schools. With Perpich Center facilitation, teacher teams develop and implement arts-integrated lessons and units. PAINT program components include:

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Clay
Cook
Dodge
Douglas
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Itasca
Lake
Mower
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Ramsey
St. Louis
Steele
Stevens
Wabasha
Wilkin
Winona
Recipient
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
Recipient
Carleton College
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,800
To research and write a history of Carleton College from a student point of view, 1960-2010.
Rice
Recipient
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500
To research and develop a history of the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf.
Statewide
Rice
Recipient
Northfield Arts Guild
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,600
To assemble historical resources pertaining to 50 years of theater productions, 1959-2012, preparatory to digitization
Rice
Recipient
Carleton College
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To assemble historical resources and draft an essay pertaining to history of residential experience at small liberal arts colleges in the 1960s
Rice
Recipient
Perpich Center for Arts Education
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$800,000

Turnaround Arts: Minnesota supports low performing schools in using the arts as a tool for improvement. Participating schools have demonstrated increased academic achievement, increased student and family engagement, and improved school culture and climate. At the national level Turnaround Arts is a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Turnaround Arts: Minnesota is run by Perpich Center for Arts Education and works with schools pre-K through 8th grade.

Beltrami
Hennepin
Mower
Olmsted
Watonwan
Recipient
City of Rockford
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,579
To prepare for the 2014 centennial of World War I by assembling documentation of Minnesota homefront experiences
Wright