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Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$936,000
Fund Source

Water control structures and dikes were designed and constructed on six Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) in the counties of Becker, Clearwater, Itasca, Lincoln, Roseau, and Yellow Medicine. Dike work at Roseau River WMA protects and enhances 3200 acres of wetlands wetlands in Pool 2 of the WMA. Roseau River WMA has 10 large water control structures, seven moist soil cells, and four large pools covering 11,800 acres. Cells for a moist soil unit were constructed at Lac Qui Parle WMA in Lac Qui Parle County.

Becker
Clearwater
Itasca
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Roseau
Todd
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Heart of the Earth, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,706
To unify, appraise, and arrange 1,000 lineal feet of historical records of the American Indian Movement under the direction of a qualified archivist.
Hennepin
Recipient
Clearwater County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
To send one person to the American Association of Museums annual meeting and conference, April 29-May 2, 2012, in Minneapolis.
Clearwater
Recipient
Minnesota African American Museum & Cultural Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$155,250
To design and install climate control that meets museum standards in order to better preserve collections that document African American history in Minnesota.
Hennepin
Recipient
Richfield Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,960
To hire a qualified professional to update the interpretation of the Riley Bartholomew House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Hennepin
Recipient
Wayzata Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To print and publish a biography on a turn of the twentieth-century Lake Minnetonka resident, Royal C. Moore of Moore Boat Works.
Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Museum of American Art
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,356
To fully catalog the museum's inventoried collection that documents the history of art in Minnesota under the direction of a qualified museum registrar.
Ramsey
Recipient
Cedar Lake Park Preservation and Development Association dba Cedar Lake Park Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To publish a history of the Cedar Lake Park Association, a volunteer citizens' group.

Hennepin
Recipient
Historic Saint Paul
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire a qualified historic preservation specialist to assess potential impacts on and reuses for up to five buildings along the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit Line.
Ramsey
Recipient
Friends of Christ Church Lutheran
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,000
To hire a qualified and experienced historian to prepare a Historic Structure Report that will guide future preservation projects
Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Museum of American Art
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,660

To gain physical and intellectual control through a professional inventory of remaining uninventoried museum collections.

Ramsey
Recipient
Ramsey County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,996

To gain physical and intellectual control through a professional inventory of approximately 3,800 objects documenting Ramsey County history.

Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Veterinary Historical Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,105

To create and install an exhibit on the history of veterinary medicine in Minnesota.

Ramsey
Recipient
Eden Prairie Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To install a fire suppression system in the John R. Cummins House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Hennepin
Recipient
The Bakken Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To complete fabrication and installation of the Dakota Medicinal Plant Garden exhibit.

Hennepin
Recipient
Eighth Air Force Historical Society, Inc. - Minnesota Chapter
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,158

To convert 44 VHS tapes to digital format allowing greater public access.

Ramsey
Recipient
1006 Summit Avenue Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,200
To provide better public access to the history of the Governor and Governor's Residence through an interpretive plan and docent manual
Ramsey
Recipient
City of Brooklyn Park
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To create trunks containing hands-on artifacts pertaining to Eidem Homestead and local history to be loaned to schools and other community groups.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Air National Guard Historical Foundation
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,830
To create a traveling exhibit that will explore the roots of Minnesota's aviation industry.
Hennepin
Recipient
Hennepin County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

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Hennepin
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To restore siding on the Charles P. Noyes Cottage (Fillebrown House), which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Ramsey
Recipient
Hennepin History Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To document in 10 interviews the history of Bhutanese refugees in Minnesota.

Ramsey
Recipient
Germanic-American Institute
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
To hire a historical architect to conduct a conditions assessment of the George Gardner House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and currently in use by the Germanic-American Institute.
Ramsey
Recipient
City of Maplewood
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,800
To conduct an archaeological survey of the Gladstone Railroad Shops site using ground-penetrating radar preparatory to a masterplan
Ramsey
Recipient
1006 Summit Avenue Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To prepare a comprehensive interpretive plan for the Governor's Residence to identify how best to reach their audience.

Ramsey
Recipient
Hamline University Law Library
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,190
To conduct and transcribe oral history interviews of several Hamline University School of Law faculty members, to commemmorate the 40th anniversary of the school's founding.
Hennepin
Recipient
Hennepin Medical History Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000

To develop a new website that enables better public access to Hennepin Medical Center history.

Hennepin
Recipient
Seward Neighborhood Group
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,850

To produce a book-length manuscript on the history of the Seward Neighborhood, Minneapolis.

Hennepin
Recipient
Twin Cities Daily Planet
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,625

To compile source materials about theater history throughout the state of Minnesota from 1959 to 1981.

Ramsey
Recipient
Friends of the Immigration History Research Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

This project requests funding to conduct and transcribe twelve oral history interviews focusing on the religious experience and interactions among immigrant groups in nine Twin Cities neighborhoods in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

Ramsey
Recipient
Friends of the Immigration History Research Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,794
To research immigrant strategies for community creation in the Twin Cities prior to World War II in eleven distinct neighborhoods.
Hennepin
Recipient
Firefighter's Hall and Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,950

To assemble historic resources necessary to complement a traveling exhibit about emergency response.

Hennepin
Recipient
Firefighter's Hall and Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To fabricate and install an exhibit about the Interstate 35W Bridge Collapse for the fifth anniversary in 2012
Hennepin
Recipient
District 7 Planning Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,500
To document in 10 interviews the history of the immigrant gardening in Saint Paul
Ramsey
Recipient
Twin City Model Railroad Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To prepare a comprehensive interpretive plan for better public access to the history of model railroading.

Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Air National Guard Historical Foundation
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,925
To hire qualified archivists to make publicly accessible the Gen. Ray Miller Papers documenting the beginning of the Minnesota Air National Guard.
Hennepin
Recipient
James J. Hill Reference Library
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,300
To restore and abate water infiltration of the marble entrance stairs on the James J. Hill Reference Library, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
Sholom Community Alliance
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To document in 6 intergenerational interviews the history of how Jewish migration to Minnesota is transmitted to succeeding generations.

Ramsey
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,997

To survey archaeological resources in six sections of Lake Minnetonka.

Hennepin
Recipient
Council on Black Minnesotans
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

The Council on Black Minnesotans in collaboration with the Minnesota Humanities Center will conduct approximately six statewide community forums.

Benton
Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns