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Their mission was to collect and safeguard historical artifacts, documents, and stories of Olmsted County. The fledgling organization initially operated out of the Rochester Public Library basement, opening its first museum space in 1940. [2] In 1959, the HCOC acquired the Bethel English Lutheran Church building, offering a dedicated museum space.
In its final career it was used for many years in winter as sales office for the University of Minnesota forestry students' Christmas tree sales project. The schoolhouse now on the museum site was built near Milan, Minnesota, around the same as the original schoolhouse, and represents the typical pioneer one-room schoolhouse. It was bought in ...
Rochester: Tudor Revival estate built 1917–1924 for pivotal Mayo Clinic doctor and architect Henry Stanley Plummer (1874–1936). [21] Also a contributing property to the Pill Hill Residential Historic District. [19] Now a city park and event center. [22] 18: Rochester Armory: Rochester Armory: December 2, 1980 : 121 North Broadway
This list of museums in Minnesota encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Pill Hill is a National Register of Historic Places district in Rochester, Minnesota. The residential neighborhood encompasses almost 150 houses built on a limestone bluff, predominantly for staff of the nearby Mayo Clinic, which led to the name. Its period of significance is between 1885-1937, with the vast majority of the homes being ...
Rochester has a shuttle service connecting to the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport by Rochester Shuttle Service and Groome Transportation (formerly Go Rochester Direct). Rochester's last passenger rail service, to Chicago to the southeast and Rapid City, South Dakota to the west, ended when the Chicago and North Western Railway 's ...
Reservation name Tribe Counties Map Population [Note 1] Notes Bois Forte Indian Reservation: Ojibwe: Itasca, Koochiching, and St. Louis: 984 Fond du Lac Indian Reservation: Ojibwe ...
G Company of the 9th Minnesota Infantry Regiment [4] had a large component of bi-racial White Earth Chippewa. [5] Their military service was the result of underhand tactics, Chippewa historians Julia Spears and William Warren report: A group of white citizens of Crow Wing enrolled bi-racial Chippewa as substitutes to fight in their place, as allowed by the Enrollment Act, thus avoiding being ...