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Excelsior is in Hennepin County, Minnesota, on Lake Minnetonka's south shore. It is approximately 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Minneapolis and bordered by Shorewood and Greenwood . According to the United States Census Bureau , Excelsior has an area of 0.69 square miles (1.79 km 2 ), of which 0.63 square miles (1.63 km 2 ) is land and 0.06 ...
Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle (Belle Plaine, MN), founded in 1993 Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company (Chicago, IL), a U.S. motorcycle manufacturer operating in Chicago from 1907 to 1931 Henderson Motorcycle , a division of the above company from 1919 to 1931
The Minnesota Department of Commerce is the governmental agency in the U.S. State of Minnesota responsible for regulating a number of critical businesses that impact the public health and welfare. These include state-licensed or regulated industries such as insurance, real estate, property appraisals, debt collection agencies, financial ...
The Allemarinda and James Wyer House is a Victorian cottage beside Lake Minnetonka in Excelsior, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1887 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Its nomination form called it the largest and best preserved of Excelsior's Eastlake style summer homes built around 1880. [2]
The Old Log Theatre was the oldest professional theater in the state of Minnesota. [1] It was sometimes cited as the oldest continuously operating professional theater in the United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was located in Excelsior and was funded entirely by ticket sales and income from its restaurant.
Excelsior Public School is a former school building in Excelsior, Minnesota, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The school was built in the Georgian Revival style between 1899 and 1901 to serve Excelsior during a time of growth in the community. [ 2 ]
In 1912, an Excelsior was the first motorcycle to be officially timed at a speed of 100 mph. [3] The Henderson Motorcycle Company became a division of Excelsior when Schwinn purchased Henderson in 1917. [1] [4] By 1928, Excelsior was in third place in the U.S. motorcycle market behind Indian and Harley-Davidson.
The museum was created as a result of the restructuring of the Minnesota Transportation Museum (MTM) during the winter of 2004–2005. The MTM was founded in 1962 to restore a streetcar, Twin City Rapid Transit Company No. 1300, that had been operated by the TCRT until the last streetcar lines were abandoned in favor of buses in 1954.