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The St. Anthony Park Branch Library is a branch of the Saint Paul Public Library in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. A Carnegie library built in 1917, it is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1999 a rotunda was built on to the back of the building. This new section houses the branch's children's collection, one of the largest ...
Hennepin County. Father Louis Hennepin was the first European explorer to visit and name Saint Anthony Falls, the tallest waterfall on the Mississippi River, in 1680.While the falls were familiar to the Ojibwe and Sioux Indians who lived in the area, Father Hennepin spread word of the falls when he returned to France in 1683.
A burial mound at Indian Mounds Park. Burial mounds in present-day Indian Mounds Park suggest the area was inhabited by the Hopewell Native Americans about 2,000 years ago. [17] [18] From the early 17th century to 1837, the Mdewakanton Dakota, a band of the Dakota people, lived near the mounds at the village of Kaposia and consider the area encompassing present-day Saint Paul Bdóte, the site ...
The Saint Paul Public Library system traces its beginnings to 1856 when the newly formed YMCA opened a reading room. [4] The following year, both the Saint Paul Library Association and the Mercantile Library Association also were organized. These early efforts all merged in 1863 into the Saint Paul Library Association. [4]
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Minnesota provides detailed information on Carnegie libraries in Minnesota, United States, where 65 public libraries were built from 57 [1] grants (totaling $969,375) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1918.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of sites in Minnesota which are included in the National Register of Historic Places. There are more than 1,700 properties and historic districts listed on the NRHP; each of Minnesota's 87 counties has at least 2 listings. Twenty-two ...
C.S.P.S. Hall (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota) Central Presbyterian Church (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Charles Thompson Memorial Hall; Christ Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill; Church of St. Agnes (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Church of St. Bernard (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Church of St. Casimir (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Church of ...
The East Side Freedom Library is an independent, non-profit library in the East Side neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Founded in 2013 by Beth Cleary and Peter Rachleff , [ 1 ] it has occupied the Arlington Hills Carnegie library building since leasing it from the city of Saint Paul in 2014. [ 2 ]