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The Works is an interactive children's museum in Bloomington, Minnesota that focuses on technology and engineering. [1] [2]The museum was conceived by Rebecca Schatz, a software engineer who was inspired by a visit to the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and by the hands-on technical education for children that she observed during a year as a Luce Scholar in Japan in 1984.
This is Minnesota's oldest, deepest, and richest iron mine, and now hosts the Soudan Underground Laboratory. In the late 19th century, prospectors searching for gold in northern Minnesota discovered extremely rich veins of hematite at this site, often containing more than 65% iron. An open pit mine began operation in 1882, and moved to ...
Eight houses mostly built 1884–1899, significant as Southwest Minnesota's best collection of large, late-19th-century residences and for their association with the era's business leaders in New Ulm. [39] 34: St. Michael's School and Convent: St. Michael's School and Convent: December 31, 1979 : 500 N. State St.
Cemetery established in 1856 whose pioneer and Dakota burials and 1890 soldiers' monument reflect Bloomington's transition from frontier settlement to participant in state affairs like military service. [69] 58: Woodbury Fisk House: Woodbury Fisk House: October 6, 1983 : 424 5th St. SE.
Universities and colleges in Bloomington, Minnesota (3 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Bloomington, Minnesota" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Built in 1856 on the bluffs of the Minnesota River, the Gideon H. Pond House is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places.. In 1839, with renewed conflict with the Ojibwa nation, Chief Cloud Man relocated his band of the Mdewakanton Sioux from Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis to an area named Oak Grove in southern Bloomington, close to present-day Portland Avenue. [13]
Ruins of the 1861 house of influential Minnesota settler Joseph R. Brown (1805–1870). Also associated with native–white relations, white settlement and reservation establishment on the upper Minnesota River, and the outbreak of the Dakota War of 1862. [112] Now the Joseph R. Brown State Wayside. [113] 3: Heins Block: Heins Block: August 8, 2001
Oxboro Library is a public library in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States. It serves the residents in the Bloomington and Richfield area. It is the second free standing library built in the city, replacing the former library that stood from 1962-1973. [1] It opened on December 16, 1974, then was renovated in 2003-04 and again in 2018-19.