Author: Minnesota Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Welcome to Minnesota's Past
Author: Minnesota Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Traces of Minnesota's Past
Author: Minnesota Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Minnesota History Along the Highways
Author: Publisher: Borealis Book
ISBN: 9780873514569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This handy travel guide presents the locations and texts of 254 historic markers, 60 geological markers, and 29 historic monuments in all corners of the state and is the perfect traveling companion for your next road trip.
Minnesota's Past in Historic Sites
Author: Donn M. CoddingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
A Popular History of Minnesota
Author: Norman K. RisjordPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
Author: Mary Ann NordPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873517458
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A county-by-county guide to Minnesota's more than 1,500 holdings on the National Register of Historic Places, the country's official list of historic properties.
Historic Homes of Minnesota
Author: Roger G. KennedyPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515573
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Great Houses of Minnesota is the engaging story of the evolution of architectural styles in Minnesota from 1830 to 1914--from the influence of the early French traders along the Mississippi and St. Croix to the emergence of the school of Frank Lloyd Wright. Through photographs and colorfully informative text, internationally known historian Roger Kennedy helps readers understand the unique styles of Minnesota's first homes, including the Mower House in Arcola, the first large house on the St. Croix; Alexander Ramsey's "Mansion House" in St. Paul, influenced by Pennsylvania Dutch virtues; the whimsical Charles C. Clement house in Fergus Falls, clearly Norse in spirit; and the Purcell House in Minneapolis, a fine example of the Prairie School design. On a broad plane these architectural eras reflected social customs, politics, commerce, religion, and literature. On a personal level they often revealed the national origin and character of the families that made the house a home. In short, this is in large measure a history of the people. Kennedy has considered their heritage and traditions as carefully as he has examined the architecture they created, and he offers a fresh, wholistic approach to the study of our state's great houses.
Minnesota's Major Historic Sites
Author: June Drenning HolmquistPublisher:
ISBN: 9780873510738
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Creating Minnesota
Author: Annette AtkinsPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873516648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book. Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past. A three-act play about Minnesota's statehood vividly depicts the competing interests of Natives, traders, and politicians who lived in the same territory but moved in different worlds. Oranges are the focal point of a chapter about railroads and transportation: how did a St. Paul family manage to celebrate their 1898 Christmas with fruit that grew no closer than 1,500 miles from their home? A photo essay brings to life three communities of the 1920s, seen through the lenses of local and itinerant photographers. The much-sought state fish helps to explain the new Minnesota, where pan-fried walleye and walleye quesadillas coexist on the same north woods menu. In Creating Minnesota Atkins invites readers to experience the texture of people's lives through the decades, offering a fascinating and unparalleled approach to the history of our state.
Everyone's Country Estate
Author: Roy Willard MeyerPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873512664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
In 1891 Minnesota established its first state park at Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River. In the century that followed, Minnesotans and tourists from other states have enjoyed hiking, picnicking, fishing, camping, canoeing, and skiing at Itasca and Minnesota's 64 other state parks. This helpful guide to the past in the parks will be welcomed by people who regularly visit a favorite Minnesota park, people who have set out to visit every park, and people who are newly discovering the parks' wonders.