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Hennepin County, Minnesota
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Hennepin County /ˈhɛnəpɪn kaʊnti/ is a county in the U. S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,152,425 and it is the most populous county in Minnesota and the 34th-most populous county in the United States, more than one in five Minnesotans live in Hennepin County. Its county seat is Minneapolis, the states most populous city, the county is named in honor of the 17th-century explorer Father Louis Hennepin. Hennepin County is included in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area, the center of population of Minnesota is in Hennepin County, in the city of Minneapolis. Hennepin County was created in 1852 by the Minnesota Territorial Legislature, Father Louis Hennepins name was chosen because he originally named St. Anthony Falls and recorded some of the earliest accounts of the area for the Western world. Hennepin Countys early history is linked to the establishment of the cities of Minneapolis. The history of Hennepin County is cataloged at the Hennepin History Museum, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 607 square miles, of which 554 square miles is land and 53 square miles is water. Hennepin is one of 17 Minnesota counties with more savanna soils than prairie or forest soils. The highest waterfall on the Mississippi River, the Saint Anthony Falls is in Hennepin County next to downtown Minneapolis, but in the 19th century, barges and boats now pass through locks to move between the parts of the river above and below the dams. There were 468,824 housing units at a density of 325/km². The racial makeup of the county was 80. 53% White,8. 95% Black or African American,1. 00% Native American,4. 80% Asian,0. 05% Pacific Islander,2. 06% from other races, and 2. 60% from two or more races. 4. 07% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,22. 8% were of German,12. 0% Norwegian,7. 6% Irish and 7. 2% Swedish ancestry. 31. 80% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 3.07. In the county 24. 00% of the population was under the age of 18,9. 70% was between 18 and 24,33. 70% from 25 to 44,21. 70% from 45 to 64, the median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 97.00 males, for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.70 males. Males had an income of $42,466 versus $32,400 for females. The per capita income for the county was $28,789, about 5. 00% of families and 8. 30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10. 50% of those under age 18 and 5. 90% of those age 65 or over. Hennepin County is the wealthiest county in Minnesota and one of the 100 highest-income counties in the United States, besides English, languages with significant numbers of speakers in Hennepin County include Arabic, Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Russian, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese
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Minnesota
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Minnesota is a state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U. S. state on May 11,1858, the state has a large number of lakes, and is known by the slogan Land of 10,000 Lakes. Its official motto is LÉtoile du Nord, Minnesota is the 12th largest in area and the 21st most populous of the U. S. Minnesota is known for its progressive political orientation and its high rate of civic participation and voter turnout. Until European settlement, Minnesota was inhabited by the Dakota and Ojibwe/Anishinaabe, in recent decades, immigration from Asia, the Horn of Africa, and Latin America has broadened its historic demographic and cultural composition. Minnesotas standard of living index is among the highest in the United States, Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers by dropping milk into water and calling it mnisota. Many places in the state have similar names, such as Minnehaha Falls, Minneiska, Minneota, Minnetonka, Minnetrista, and Minneapolis, a combination of mni and polis, Minnesota is the second northernmost U. S. state. Its isolated Northwest Angle in Lake of the Woods county is the part of the 48 contiguous states lying north of the 49th parallel. The state is part of the U. S. region known as the Upper Midwest and it shares a Lake Superior water border with Michigan and a land and water border with Wisconsin to the east. Iowa is to the south, North Dakota and South Dakota are to the west, with 86,943 square miles, or approximately 2.25 percent of the United States, Minnesota is the 12th-largest state. Minnesota has some of the Earths oldest rocks, gneisses that are about 3.6 billion years old. About 2.7 billion years ago, basaltic lava poured out of cracks in the floor of the primordial ocean, the roots of these volcanic mountains and the action of Precambrian seas formed the Iron Range of northern Minnesota. Following a period of volcanism 1, in more recent times, massive ice sheets at least one kilometer thick ravaged the landscape of the state and sculpted its terrain. The Wisconsin glaciation left 12,000 years ago and these glaciers covered all of Minnesota except the far southeast, an area characterized by steep hills and streams that cut into the bedrock. This area is known as the Driftless Zone for its absence of glacial drift, much of the remainder of the state outside the northeast has 50 feet or more of glacial till left behind as the last glaciers retreated. Gigantic Lake Agassiz formed in the northwest 13,000 years ago and its bed created the fertile Red River valley, and its outflow, glacial River Warren, carved the valley of the Minnesota River and the Upper Mississippi downstream from Fort Snelling. Minnesota is geologically quiet today, it experiences earthquakes infrequently, the states high point is Eagle Mountain at 2,301 feet, which is only 13 miles away from the low of 601 feet at the shore of Lake Superior. Notwithstanding dramatic local differences in elevation, much of the state is a rolling peneplain. Two major drainage divides meet in Minnesotas northeast in rural Hibbing, forming a triple watershed, precipitation can follow the Mississippi River south to the Gulf of Mexico, the Saint Lawrence Seaway east to the Atlantic Ocean, or the Hudson Bay watershed to the Arctic Ocean
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Minneapolis Central Library
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Minneapolis Central Library, located at 300 Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, is the largest library of the Hennepin County Library public library system. The 353,000 square foot building with two levels of parking was designed by César Pelli and opened on May 20,2006. The predecessor of Minneapoliss public library was a library called the Minneapolis Athenæum founded in 1859. The Minneapolis Public Library was founded in 1885 and its first task was to build a main library, the first central library of the Minneapolis Public Library was built in 1889 along Tenth Street and Hennepin Avenue about six blocks south of the current building. The library contained an art gallery primarily of work from the collection of library benefactor T. B, after many decades the library was considered overcrowded and out of date and plans began for a new library at a different location. The Minneapolis Public Library and Information Center, opened on January 28,1961 at 4th St. the new four-story glass-and-steel building replaced the old stone castle-like one, which was torn down. The building included a library, as well as a planetarium, auditorium, the new location in the then run-down lower loop district made the library a cornerstone of the 1960 redevelopment of downtown Minneapolis. Thirty years later library and community leaders began to build support for a new. Construction on the third and current library began after Minneapolis voters approved a $140 million in funding to improve services on November 7,2000. The new building was designed by César Pelli, along with the Minneapolis firm Architectural Alliance, at a cost of $250 per square foot, the library features a roof garden and substantial daylight. Its storage area was designed to be available to the public without staff assistance so that all of the collection is accessible to the public. Between the closing of the library and the opening of the new building, most services were provided at the interim Central Library Marquette location. The cost of providing the site while the old library was demolished. The Minneapolis Public Library system joined the 26-library Hennepin County Library system on January 1,2008, the administration for the unified library system remained at Ridgedale Library in Minnetonka. The Minneapolis Planetarium Society was located at the second MPLIC building using a projector machine literally older than the age itself. In 2005, the Minnesota Legislature apportioned funding for the inclusion of a planetarium in the new Central Library building. The 37, 000-square-foot Minnesota Planetarium was originally planned for the roof of the new building but it will now be part of a new Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota
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Public library
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A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is generally funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are civil servants. There are five fundamental characteristics shared by public libraries, Public libraries exist in many countries across the world and are often considered an essential part of having an educated and literate population. Public access to books is not new, romans made scrolls in dry rooms available to patrons of the baths, and tried with some success to establish libraries within the empire. In the middle of the 19th century, the push for public libraries, paid for by taxes. Public libraries were started with a donation, or were bequeathed to parishes, churches. These social and institutional libraries formed the base of many academic and public collections of today. The establishment of circulating libraries in the 18th century, by booksellers and publishers provided a means of gaining profit, the circulating libraries not only provided a place to sell books, but also a place to lend books for a price. These circulating libraries provided a variety of including the increasingly popular novels. Circulating libraries were not exclusively lending institutions and often provided a place for other forms of commercial activity and this was necessary because the circulating libraries did not generate enough funds through subscription fees collected from its borrowers. As a commerce venture, it was important to consider the factors such as other goods or services available to the subscribers. The Malatestiana Library, also known as the Malatesta Novello Library, is a public library dating from 1452 in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna and it was the first European civic library, i. e. belonging to the Commune and open to everybody. It was commissioned by the Lord of Cesena, Malatesta Novello, the works were directed by Matteo Nuti of Fano and lasted from 1447 to 1452. In the early years of the 17th century, many famous collegiate, norwich City library was established in 1608 and Chethams Library in Manchester, which claims to be the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, opened in 1653. Claude Sallier, the French philologist and churchman, operated an early form of library in the town of Saulieu from 1737 to 1750. He wished to make culture and learning accessible to all people, the Załuski Library was built in Warsaw 1747–1795 by Józef Andrzej Załuski and his brother, Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, both Roman Catholic bishops. The library was open to the public and indeed was the first Polish public library, at the start of the 18th century, libraries were becoming increasingly public and were more frequently lending libraries. The 18th century saw the switch from closed parochial libraries to lending libraries, before this time, public libraries were parochial in nature and libraries frequently chained their books to desks
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Minneapolis Public Library
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The Minneapolis Public Library was a library system that served the residents of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. It was founded in 1885 with the establishment of the Minneapolis Library Board by an amendment to the Minneapolis City Charter, lumber baron and philanthropist T. B. Walker and other city leaders such as Thomas Lowry were members of the first library board. In 2008, after financial difficulties, the library was merged into the Hennepin County Library system. At the time of its merger, the library included Central Library in downtown Minneapolis and its collection numbered about 3.1 million items with about 2.2 million of these housed in the central library. The predecessor of Minneapoliss public library was a library called the Minneapolis Athenæum. It was organized by Minneapolis businessmen in 1859 as a subscription library, after T. B. Walker moved to Minneapolis he bought shares in the Athenæum and gave away memberships to it, promoting the idea of a free public library for the city. Other stock holders raised objections, but the technique worked and soon the city financed a free library for the public with a one mill property tax. When the Minneapolis Public Library was established in 1885 the Athenæum became a partner of it, three central libraries have been built in Minneapolis, each replacing the last with a bigger and more up-to-date building. The first opened in 1889, the second in 1961 and the third, on November 7,2000, Minneapolis voters approved a $140 million package to improve library services, including funding a new Central Library building. The building was designed by Cesar Pelli, along with the Minneapolis firm Architectural Alliance, at a cost of $250 per square foot, the library features a host of energy-efficient measures, including a roof garden and substantial daylight. While the building was construction, most services were provided at the interim Central Library Marquette location. Cost of providing a site while the old library was demolished. Until the 2002 closure and demolition of the old central library, in 2005, the Minnesota Legislature apportioned funding for a new planetarium, then planned to be on the roof of the new Central Library building. Instead, the planetarium is now planned to be part of a new Bell Museum of Natural History building, the first two branches of the Minneapolis Public Library opened in 1890, one each on the north and south sides of Minneapolis. A branch in the basement of North High School opened on February 27,1890, by 2002 there were fourteen branches or community libraries. Each library had a member who was assigned to local schools to discuss the services available at the library. The 2002 referendum also included funds to renovate community libraries, supplementing an existing program, in some cases, the libraries have been demolished and moved to new, more modern buildings. East Lake Community Library, original building at 2916 East Lake Street, the building now houses a liberal political products store
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Minnetonka, Minnesota
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Minnetonka /ˌmɪnᵻˈtɒŋkə/ MIN-i-TONG-kə is a suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, eight miles west of Minneapolis. The population was 49,734 at the 2010 census, the name comes from the Dakota Indian mni tanka, meaning great water. The city is the home of Cargill, the countrys largest privately owned company, and United Healthcare, the states largest publicly owned company. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 28.22 square miles. Part of the city includes the tip of Lake Minnetonka. The outlet of Lake Minnetonka is Minnehaha Creek, which winds through south Minneapolis and flows over Minnehaha Falls, Minnetonka is located 8 miles west of Minneapolis, in Hennepin County. The headquarters of Carlson Companies are in Minnetonka, the headquarters of Cargill are located in Minnetonka and are in the Wayzata Post Office area. Founded in 1865, it is now the largest privately held corporation in the U. S. in terms of revenue, other companies based in Minnetonka include the uniform companies AmeriPride Services and G&K Services. The Dakota and Ojibwe Indians were the first people to settle in the area and they believed the land around Lake Minnetonka was the legendary home of an extinct race. The first recorded exploration of the area by European settlers was in 1822, in 1851, the Dakota sold the area including Minnetonka to the United States with the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux. The first census, the Territorial Census of 1857, lists 41 households, twenty-nine of the heads of households are listed as farmers. The occupations of the twelve are associated with the operations of Minnetonka Mill. In 1852, a claim was staked on Minnehaha Creek near McGinty Road, the sawmill that was constructed in the thick woods of maple, oak, elm, red cedar and basswood was the first privately operated mill in Minnesota west of the Mississippi River. Oak timbers from this mill were used to build the first suspension bridge across the Mississippi River at Saint Anthony Falls in 1853, the settlement of Minnetonka Mills that grew up around the mill was the first permanent European–American settlement west of Minneapolis in Hennepin County. In 1855, a sawmill was constructed with a furniture factory on the second floor. A building for varnishing furniture was built on the side of the creek. Production consisted mainly of chairs and bedsteads, the Minnetonka Republican at St. Anthony published a short article describing the area. The February 12,1857, issue said, In 1860, after only 8 years of operation, in 1869, a flour and grist mill were constructed and operated until the late 1880s
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Bookmobile
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A bookmobile or mobile library is a vehicle designed for use as a library. It is designed to hold books on shelves in such a way that when the vehicle is parked they can be accessed by readers. Mobile libraries are used to provide library services to villages. They can also service groups or individuals who have difficulty accessing libraries, for example, as well as regular books, a bookmobile might also carry large print books, audiobooks, other media, IT equipment, and Internet access. The British Workman reported in 1857 about a library operating in a circle of eight villages. A Victorian merchant and philanthropist, George Moore, had created the project to diffuse good literature among the rural population, the Warrington Perambulating Library, set up in 1858, was another early British mobile library. This horse-drawn van was operated by the Warrington Mechanics Institute, which aimed to increase the lending of its books to enthusiastic local patrons, fairfax County, Virginia had a bookmobile operating in the northwestern part of the county in 1890. County-wide bookmobile service was begun in 1940, in a truck loaned by the Works Progress Administration, the WPA support of the bookmobile ended in 1942, but the service did not. Another early American bookmobile was developed by Mary Lemist Titcomb, as a librarian at the Washington County, Maryland Free Library, Titcomb was concerned that the library was not reaching all the people it could. The annual report for 1902 lists 23 branches, i. e. collections of 50 books in a case placed in stores, the Hennepin County Public Library started operating a bookmobile in 1923. Sometimes they relied on a contact to help them distribute the materials. The Library in Action was a late-1960s Bronx, NY, program aiming to bring books to teenagers of color in under-served neighborhoods, bookmobiles reached their height of popularity in the mid-twentieth century. Bookmobiles are still in use, operated by libraries, schools, activists, the Internet Archive runs its own bookmobile to print out-of-copyright books on demand. The project has spun off similar efforts elsewhere in the developing world, in the U. S. the American Library Association sponsors an annual National Bookmobile Day annually, on the Wednesday of National Library Week, in April. Bookmobiles and similar services are used in countries, in some locations without a vehicle. Some examples include, A Camel Library Service in Kenya is funded by the Kenyan government and as a charity in Garissa and Wajir, near the border with Somalia. The service started with three camels in October 1996 and had 12 in 2006, delivering 7000 books, daily, in English, Somali, masha Hamilton used this service as a background for her novel The Camel Bookmobile. A donkey-drawn mobile library in Zimbabwe not only books but access to the Internet and multimedia
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East Lake Library
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Three different buildings have housed the library since 1924. The first East Lake Community Library opened in February 1924, between the Hosmer Community Library and Roosevelt Community Library, which is modeled closely after East Lake, situated on Lake Street, it featured simple architecture and a skylight. Because of its appearance, seemingly like a storefront, the library was called a Reading Factory, East Lake was one of the last libraries built in a library building boom that Minneapolis experienced starting in 1905 and ending in 1937. The first East Lake remained until the mid-1970s when the need for a new, by 1974 East Lake was circulating 121,459 items and fielding tens of thousands of reference questions. In 1976 the library closed and was reopened as a Montessori day care, in 1987 Northern Sun Merchandising purchased the building and runs it there to this day. In 2000 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places, in 2004–5,80 solar panels were installed on the roof. The original library shelves still circle the walls of the building, the second East Lake was built two blocks west of the original library. It had 15,116 square feet of space and 30,000 volumes and it also had a 2,390 square feet meeting room. The building was built by the Minnehaha Mall which included a Target and SuperValu store and it served patrons of the Longfellow and Phillips neighborhoods well, although by around the start of the 20th century, the building was beginning to show wear. In 1999, a plan called Outlook Twenty Ten outlined some options for the renewal of the library, Option A called for a 6,000 square feet expansion to the building, Option B outlined a 7,000 square feet expansion and the acquisition of neighboring properties. This was to allow greater flexibility in the designation of a new library building. It was to cost almost $3 million, Option C simply had the library repaired and slightly renovated. None of Outlook Twenty Tens original suggestions were followed, and on 30 Apr,2005, the second East Lake was closed to make way for the third building. The newest East Lake was modeled after Minneapoliss Central Library which at the time was also under construction and it featured a glass and metal exterior and was designed by KKE Architects. It was the first green library in the MPL system. The library opened on March 10,2007 and it includes a teen area, a small business/entrepreneurial knoll and fully automated checkout systems. It is located in the place as the 1976 building,2727 E. Alliances between East Lake Library and the community include Learning Dreams, programs include computer classes for seniors, provided through a partnership with Minnesota Board on Aging and Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging and job search assistance
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Franklin Library (Minneapolis)
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Franklin Library is a public library on Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The library was one of thirteen branch libraries established under the leadership of Gratia Countryman, the library housed the largest collection of Scandinavian books, newspapers, and magazines within the system, which reflected the population living in the area. The library was funded by the Carnegie Corporation and designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton, on April 23,1890, the 2nd branch of the Minneapolis Public Library, the South Side branch opened. It was located in two rooms at a store at 17th Ave. and Franklin Ave, South Minneapolis was the core of the Scandinavian community and by 1904 all of the Scandinavian language materials were shelved at the South Side branch. The South Side branch was succeeded by the first Carnegie branch to open in Minneapolis, Franklin Library, andrew Carnegie donated money for library buildings as long as the community furnished the land to build the library upon. The McKnight family donated the land valued at $13,000, the land was donated by Harriet McKnight Crosby, Caroline McKnight Christian and Sumner T. McKnight. The two story brick building became one of the busiest branches in the 1920s. The Scandinavian books and magazines drew users from throughout the library, as it is central with the Somali community today, Franklin Library has always been an immigrant library. The Phillips neighborhood near Franklin has historically been the home of immigrants, the library has an American Indian collection and in the 1960s it started outreach to its neighbors, connecting them with social workers and resources. The library is home to the Franklin Learning Center, which was established in 1988. Franklin Learning Center serves adults who are studying English, math, science, social studies, technology and life skills, learners work one-to-one or in small groups with instructors and volunteer tutors. The library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, in 2005, it was renovated to adapt to modern technology while maintaining its historic integrity. Franklin and 14 other libraries of Minneapolis Public Library were merged into the combined urban/suburban Hennepin County Library in 2008, Public art at the Franklin branch includes Robert DesJarlait’s Red Lake, a large mosaic above the east fireplace. DesJarlait, a member of the Anishinabe Ojibwe nation, uses pictographs to tell a story within his work, additionally, it honors the March 2005 death of ten people on the Red Lake Reservation in northwestern Minnesota. A mosaic by Minneapolis native Marilyn Lindstrom sits above the west fireplace, titled World Language, the piece celebrates the globe’s seven continents by including petroglyphs, pictographs and ancient symbols from each. Lindstrom collaborated with DesJarlait in the creation of his work, Red Lake, Franklin librarian Cassie Warholm-Wohlenhaus’s article published on November 13,2014, provides a concise and thorough history of the Franklin library’s first 100 years. Today, the collection reflects the languages spoken in the homes of the community it serves, including Arabic, Ojibwe, Oromo, Somali, and Spanish. During the 2005 renovations to the 91-year-old building, the oldest of the three remaining Carnegie libraries in Minneapolis, the City of Minneapolis Library invested $4 million to update Franklin
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Hosmer Library
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It was built in 1916 during a period of immigration into Minneapolis. At the time it was built, the library was in a sparsely developed Scandinavian neighborhood, the library was built under the leadership of librarian Gratia Countryman and financed with support from the Carnegie Corporation. The building is in the Collegiate Gothic style, with towers on either side of the main entrance, a crenellated parapet. Hosmer Library was Minneapolis’ fourth and final Carnegie branch, following Gratia Countryman’s research-based application to secure the funds from the Carnegie Corporation, construction of 90’ by 54’ building began in May 1914. Total costs ran to $27,700 for the plans designed by Henry D. Whitefield, the tenth library built in Minneapolis, the Thirty-sixth Street Branch Library opened on March 8,1916. Honoring James Kendall Hosmer, Minneapolis’ second city librarian, the branch was renamed for him in 1926, the two granite lion-dogs outside the entrance were donated by family of Mrs. Lewis Gillette. Branch libraries were located near streetcars and Hosmer was no exception. It is one of nine Minneapolis libraries still in existence which is attributed to the important contributions of Gratia Countryman in building the library infrastructure for the city. When built, Hosmer was situated in a neighborhood without many residents, in 1969, reflecting the changing composition of the neighborhood, an African American reading room was dedicated in Hosmer to serve patrons. Today, it is one of eight Minneapolis public libraries which are listed as historic landmarks with the National Register of Historic Places, for many years, Hosmer Head Librarian Roy Woodstrom was at the vanguard of innovation in delivering services to patrons. Following significant budget cuts in 2004, the City of Minneapolis elected to reduce libraries’ hours of service, at Hosmer, open days dropped to four days a week. On behalf of Hosmer, Woodstrom explored becoming a 5013 corporation and he successfully petitioned the Kingfield Neighborhood Association in October 2004 for a Social Services Grant in the amount of $5,000 towards for cultural and community programs. Woodstrom launched the Hosmer World Music Concert Series in 2002 with weekly live music on Saturday afternoons, previously, Woodstrom developed the Hosmer Library Talent Show, a cherished annual event for the neighborhood’s performers, which made its debut in 1998. His legacy also includes the World Film Series, hosted at the Library, in 1951, an enclosure was added to the east side stairway for $900. Recognizing the limited access of the building, a level entry. By 1996 it was determined that the building required an overhaul to meet patrons’ needs. They were successful, circulation rates were triple what they were before the remodeling, in keeping with the long-standing tradition of providing relevant services to its community, Hosmer has a Tech Center on the lower level, which provides computers and classes for patrons
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Linden Hills Library
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Linden Hills Library is a public library in the Linden Hills neighborhood of southwest Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The branch library opened in 1911 on the first floor of the Lake Harriet Commercial Club building. In 1931, under the leadership of Minneapolis Public Librarys chief librarian Gratia Countryman, area resident Joseph Victor Vanderbilt designed the library in the Tudor Revival style. Head librarian Edith Frost served for thirty years. The library has hosted community groups such as childrens clubs, neighborhood groups. The library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, the building has leaded glass windows, including a panel above the entrance that pays tribute to past generations and their legacy for the future. It also has outdoor terraces and two historic fireplaces and these features make it a favorite among neighborhood residents. In 1911 the Linden Hills Community Library opened on the floor of the Lake Harriet Commercial Club Building at 2720 43rd Street West. Previously, there had been a deposit collection housed in a neighborhood store since 1905. A three year lease was signed at $1,000 a year, in 1923 the Commercial Club raised the lease to $1,200 a year and the Library Board considered either renting or purchasing the old telephone building nearby but finally decided to stay. In March 1928 the Library Board was notified after its lease expired in the fall, circulation was brisk until 1928 when the library lost its lease on the ground floor and moved upstairs. Elderly patrons had trouble getting upstairs to the new location, “A very touching story was told of seeing an old lady looking into the old room, ” wrote one of the branch’s librarians. “She was shown the removal sign, for she was deaf, shook her head, the library board asked the Board of Estimate and Taxation for $50,000 for a new branch building. Linden Hills residents appeared at a city meeting, but the request was turned down, not until April 1930, after a $50,000 bond issue was passed, did Linden Hills get its own branch building. The original site chosen in 1928 at Lake Harriet Boulevard and 43rd Street was no longer available so a new location was purchased for $6,000 in June 1930. The city purchased three lots on what used to be an old Indian trail to Minnetonka owned by the Townsend family, located at 2900 West 43rd Street, the colonial-style brick edifice opened on February 5,1931. It had a stock of 10,000 books, Linden Hills resident Joseph V. Vanderbilt’s firm of Bard and Vanderbilt designed the building. Pike and Cook was the contractor on the project, the basement included the children’s library, staff room and kitchen
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Nokomis Library
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Nokomis Library, formerly Nokomis Community Library, is a branch library serving the Nokomis East area of Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of 41 libraries in the Hennepin County Library System, Nokomis was designed by Buetow and Associates, Inc and opened in 1968 as a replacement for the nearby Longfellow Community Library. The building reopened in 2011 and includes a restored Wind and Water Chime, a stabile that was part of the original library, the library contains over 35 computers, a public meeting room, and a Spanish-language collection of materials. Nokomis was the newest branch added to the Minneapolis Public Library system in 1967, the one was the Linden Hills Community Library. It was built to replace the former Longfellow Community Library that had served the Nokomis East area for many years. In 1967, the City of Minneapolis had Buetow and Associates, Inc design the new library building, additionally, the library was named for Nokomis in said poem, making the branch the only library in the system to be named after a fictional character. The library featured a reading loft, basement meeting room, and 13,426 square feet, construction on it began in 1967 and concluded the next year. The library opened in September 1968 and immediately doubled the circulation of the old Longfellow branch, a decreased budget led to Nokomis losing its Saturday operating hours in 2004. A merger with the Hennepin County Libraries was approved by both systems boards along with the Minneapolis City Council and Nokomis reopened at 10 am on January 2,2008 and it remained the only building in the newly expanded 41-library system to be named for a fictional character. In 1999, the Minneapolis Library Board issued a report entitled Outlook Twenty Ten identifying the needs of each of the systems libraries. Deeming Nokomis crowded and outdated, the proposed three options. Option A proposed combining Nokomis with the nearby Roosevelt Community Library in a 25, 000-square-foot space and this would have allowed the library to operate out of a state-of-the-art building at an undecided location. Option B recommended moving Nokomis to a different site without moving Roosevelt, the new library there would have been 18,000 square feet. Option C included capital improvements to Nokomis, such as replacing carpeting, signs, a 2003 update to the report identified a project start date of 2007, with full closure in 2008 and a reopening in 2009. In 2007, the Minneapolis City Council appropriated a portion of its $1.35 billion 2008 budget for improvements to Nokomis and Northeast Community Library. $5.2 million of the $7 million project came from the city, Hennepin County put forward $1.8 million for additions to the library. The new building was designed by KKE Architects with significant input from an advisory committee. Ebert, Inc. was hired as the general contractor, during the construction, patrons were encouraged to make use of nearby libraries including East Lake, Roosevelt, Washburn, and Southdale
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North Regional Library
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North Regional Library is a public library in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Hennepin County Library system, since opening in 1971, North Regional Library at 1315 Lowry Ave. N. in Minneapolis serves a diverse metropolitan community, Near North, Minneapolis. The first stand alone library branch built by Minneapolis Public Library was Minneapolis Public Library and it served the community from 1893-1977. Along with Minneapolis Public Library, North Branch, other neighborhood libraries housed in schools such as Jordan, were closed after North Regional Library opened. After selecting the block on Lowry Avenue between Fremont and Girard Avenues, Minneapolis architectural firm Miller Dunwiddie was engaged to draw up the plans. In anticipation of the opening on October 24,1971,25,000 leaflets were sent out to the residents in the neighborhood. Minneapolis Public Library director Ernest Gaines envisioned a system of regional libraries like North Regional. North Regional Library also featured the Emerson Room, the Emerson Room housed the New England literature collection given by Harold Kittleson. It was decorated like the interior of a New England home of the 19th century, the 19th Century Collection is now at Minneapolis Central, Special Collections. By size, it was the second largest public library in the city, with a pressing need to make the building fully accessible and more welcoming, update technology access and make it more economical to manage, the city put out bids for much-needed updates. Considerations included the height of the shelving and the interior lighting, additional dollars were provided by the State of Minnesota Department of Education and from the surrounding Cleveland, Jordan and McKinley neighborhoods, which contributed $32,500. The remodeled space focuses on the importance of nature and discovery, for teens, Homework Helper tutors are available after school, and the Discovery Room gives younger patrons a designated space for creative play. Children and teens are the largest users of the library, hmong-speaking staffers are available at the library three days a week, supporting users’ information needs, and teaching patrons how to navigate the library’s resources. HIRED and CPED are resident in the library regularly, helping job seekers, Public meeting rooms are located upstairs, including the Emerson Room. A photography installation by Wing Young Huie encourages children to look at their neighbors, pitz’s sculptures are meant to be sat on, slid down, and leaned against. The leaves are seven feet long, and carved from walnut, cherry, and maple
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Northeast Library
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Northeast Library is a public library in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Hennepin County Library system, since opening in 1973, Northeast Library at 2200 Central Avenue Northeast in Minneapolis serves a vibrant metropolitan community, Northeast, Minneapolis. At 15,275 square feet, the space held about 30,000 books, the 1973 building was itself a replacement for a Carnegie library which was on the site from 1915 until 1972. The Carnegie building served newly arrived immigrants of German, Polish, and Scandinavian descent, hosted programming for adults, the branch held weekly storytimes for children and Americanization classes. Initially, all services were held on the main floor of the library and the basement held a meeting room and an auditorium. The Central Avenue branch was the only Carnegie library in Minneapolis to be torn down. The building was in poor condition at several points in its existence. In 1970, Minneapolis Public Library Director Ervin Gaines announced that the cost of renovating the Central Avenue branch was higher than the cost of a new building, the Central Avenue branch was razed in 1972, and in 1973 Northeast Library was dedicated on the same site. Having served its original design for 34 years, Northeast was in need of several updates, in anticipation of the funding, in 2007 the City of Minneapolis chose the Cunningham Group Architecture firm to design the renovation. Completed in the spring of 2011 at a cost of $5.2 million, the goal was to make use of ample daylight with the greater use and strategic placement of windows. In addition to the repairs and updates, environmentally sound zinc panels are used on a portion of the outside of the building, complementing the original brick facade. Funding for the remodeling came from the City of Minneapolis Library Referendum vote in 2000, accessibility was improved and better use of the space supported the needs of the updated collection and the state-of-the-art technology resources. Wood from the library’s beloved oak tree which was felled to make way for the expansion was recycled into tables made by a neighborhood artist for the updated library, the Friends of the Northeast Library launched in September 2010. The Friends of the Northeast Library sponsors library programs and holds book sales including sales at the Northeast Farmer’s Market, Library programming is offered for community members of all ages, throughout the year. Baby and Family story times are held once a week for young children, the library collaborates with local schools to provide field trip opportunities and promote library services to children and their families. Art in the Library includes a frieze representing the talents of the neighborhood, measuring 40 feet by 4 feet, it is a collection of images of art by residents of Northeast Minneapolis who are artists. In fact, the Northeast branch is a member of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association, andy Sturdevant has recently been a writer in residence at Northeast Library. Among the unique resources he found at the Northeast branch are a collection of Edison High School’s yearbooks dating from 1927, and The Northeaster neighborhood newspaper
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Pierre Bottineau Library
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Pierre Bottineau Library is a branch library located in northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota, US. It was named for Pierre Bottineau, a prominent Minnesota frontiersman and is one of 41 libraries in the Hennepin County Library System, the library moved to its current location at the historic Grain Belt campus in 2003. The 12, 355-square-foot facility combines two historic buildings, the 1893 Wagon Shed and the 1913 Millwright Shop, with a designed by RSP Architects. The Northeast Minneapolis area had been served by the Minneapolis Public Library since 1913, the first library in the neighborhood was housed at Sheridan Junior High School, later, the library moved to the field house at Logan Park where it went by the name Logan Park Library. Pierre Bottineaus next incarnation was housed in a 2, 044-square-foot rented space at 1224 Northeast 2nd Street where it resided beginning in 1957. As of 2000, not only was it the systems only rented space, as Pierre Bottineaus capacity was legally set at only 40 occupants, a sign on the door would inform potential patrons that The library is now full. The Grain Belt location is six times the size of Pierre Bottineaus previous home and was proposed in 2000 by the Minneapolis Library Board, the total project cost was estimated at $2.5 million of which the Library Board was to pay half. Work on the new facility began in 2002 and the project ended up totaling $3.1 million, emphasis in the library was placed on meeting the needs of children as the old Pierre Bottineau received heavy use from school-age youths. Budget woes caused the Minneapolis Public Library to temporarily close three different branches in part due to a loss of government aid in early 2007. Media related to Pierre Bottineau Library at Wikimedia Commons
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Roosevelt Library
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Roosevelt Library was originally built inside and named for Roosevelt High School in Minneapoliss Standish neighborhood in 1922. In this way, it not only served the school students. In the 1920s, Standish experienced a 50% population boom consisting mainly of Swedish immigrants and they hired Klarquist, S. M. and Son to design the new library building. The architectural firm did so, designing a brick and wood building in the Tudor Revival style, the building was modeled after the original East Lake Community Library, also a Minneapolis library, although Roosevelt had a small amount of front yard space where East Lake did not. On February 15,1927, Roosevelt opened to the community at 4026 28th Avenue South. Upon opening the library’s hours were 10 a. m. –9 p. m. Monday–Friday and 10 a. m. –1 p. m on Saturdays. ”It went on to state, “We hope we may justify this statement in this new neighborhood, and that the people will use our equipment freely for their enjoyment and education. ”The opening day staff were, Ada N. Whiting, Librarian, Eleanor Heimark, First Assistant, Volborg Sobba, Assistant, Lessley Chilson, Assistant, Wallace Petri, Page, Mina Jacobsen, Janitress. Roosevelt was open five or six days a week for most of the 20th century, depending on library funding, it was sometimes open on Saturday and other times closed then. Fluctuations in neighborhood population and the demographics of the community also contributed to library usage. During World War II, librarians at Roosevelt held special story times for the children of the area, many of whom had mothers in the workforce and this helped the children take their minds off the war, and also helped curb rising juvenile delinquency rates in the Standish neighborhood. Throughout the rest of the 20th century, Roosevelt’s hours and users remained steady, the library in 1962 decided to experiment with purchasing paperback books for teens. Roosevelt was selected as the location for the paperback project because of its proximity to a high school. In 1973 the building gained a lot and air conditioning. Roosevelt was small by 1999, as many of the other Minneapolis Public Libraries were 10,000 sq ft. or greater and it also lacked a public meeting room and failed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Voters chose to support the 2000 referendum which gave money to libraries for capital improvements, in a plan drafted July,1999 called Outlook 2010, there were four options for Roosevelt. Option A had Roosevelt combining with the nearby Nokomis Community Library at an undecided location, the new building would have been 25,000 sq ft. and both Roosevelt and Nokomis would close. This plan was no longer feasible when Nokomis underwent capital improvements of its own, option B included Roosevelt moving to a larger building by itself while keeping Nokomis at its current location or moving it separately. Option D proposed expanding Roosevelt by 5,000 sq ft. along with complying it to the Americans with Disabilities Act, none of the Outlook 2010 plans were undertaken although what eventually was done by Hennepin County Library is sort of a combination of Options C and D. In 2002 a new mixed used library at 38th Street and 23rd Avenue was endorsed by the advisory team
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Southeast Library
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Southeast Library is a public library in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Its primary service area is the University, Minneapolis community, the library was one of thirteen branch libraries established under the leadership of Gratia Countryman, the chief librarian of the Minneapolis Public Library from 1904 to 1936. The third branch of the Minneapolis Public library opened on November 1,1891 in the old Winthrop School building at 22 University Avenue Southeast and it was replaced by the Pillsbury Library in 1904. John Sargent Pillsbury, Minnesotas eighth governor, offered to build a library at the corner of University. The location was few blocks from the iconic Pillsbury A Mill, although Pillsbury died before the library opened in April,1904, the family carried out the gift. One of the most beautiful library branches in Minneapolis, the library was built out of marble, in 1960 a new Central Library opened right across the river from the Pillsbury Library so a location closer to the University Communitys core was sought. The Southeast Library replaced the Pillsbury Library in 1967, located at 100 University Avenue Southeast, after many years as the Dolly Fiterman gallery, the Pillsbury Library now houses the Phillips Foundation. A successful delivery station was replaced in 1906 by the Seven Corners Branch in a space at 231 Cedar Avenue. The Seven Corners area was teeming with new immigrants and the library was quite busy, a permanent Seven Corners branch was built at 300 15th Ave. By 1964 the librarys circulation numbers paled in comparison to its first decades of existence, the building was sold to the Minnesota Department of Transportation and was razed for highway construction. Southeast Librarys building was designed by master architect Ralph Rapson and originally functioned as a union for university. It opened as a library in 1967, the State Capital Credit Union building at 1222 Fourth Street Southeast was purchased to be converted into a library on December 29,1966. It opened as the new Southeast Library on December 26,1967, Southeast Library and 14 other libraries of Minneapolis Public Library were merged into the combined urban/suburban Hennepin County Library in 2008. A remodeled or new library for the University, Minneapolis community is being discussed with community members and a building project page has been created by Hennepin County Library
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Sumner Library
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Sumner Library is a neighborhood library located in the Near-north neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Originally part of the Minneapolis Public Library, it part of the merged Hennepin County Library in 2008. The Carnegie Library was a haven for Jewish immigrants to the city in the early 20th century, the Tudor Revival building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sumner and the 14 other libraries of Minneapolis Public Library were merged into the combined urban/suburban Hennepin County Library in 2008, the library celebrated its 100th anniversary on Oct.10,2015. Sumner Library opened on June 5,1912 in a store room at 901 6th Ave. Young people flocked to the library for reading materials, and many used the library’s collection of juvenile materials to learn English. Approximately 90% of the patrons were Jewish immigrants. From the outset, reading materials in Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew were in demand. Gratia Countryman, Head Librarian of the Minneapolis Public Library, had worked tirelessly to secure the grant, Sumner Library was the third of four branch libraries in Minneapolis to be constructed with funds from Carnegie. Minneapolis architect Cecil Bayless Chapman designed the library in the Tudor Revival style, the brick L-shaped library featured arched ceilings and a central tower where the main entrance and librarian’s office were. Sumner Library’s new building opened on December 16,1915 at 6th Ave. After being open just one month, the new building was too small. Staff reported that one-third of the children who came to the library could not find a place to sit, throughout the entirety of its existence, Sumner Library has been a mainstay among services helping immigrants adapt to life in the United States. Almost as soon as the opened, Sumner Library hosted English. Since many adults in the neighborhood did not speak English, library staff would ask children, Sumner Library has served a wide variety of ethnic and religious groups since its establishment in North Minneapolis. Initially, the population lived near and used Sumner Library was primarily Jewish. Adelaide Rood, Branch Librarian from 1916-1953, saw the library as a place that could help people of different cultural groups understand one another, in 1931, the library held its first “Jewish Book Week, ” displaying Jewish books and items. In the 1940s, the library decorated for Christmas and Hanukkah, by as early as the 1920s, however, Jewish families began moving farther north and west, out of the vicinity of the library
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Walker Library (Minneapolis)
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Walker Library is public library in the East Isles neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is located on Hennepin Avenue one block north of Lake Street, Walker and the 14 other libraries of Minneapolis Public Library were merged into the combined urban/suburban Hennepin County Library in 2008. The original building was built in 1911, when the Hennepin/Lake area was sparsely populated, Walker, the president of the library board at the time, donated some land for the site of the library. Local architect Jerome Paul Jackson designed the library in a Classical Revival design, the portico, with Ionic columns, shows Beaux-Arts characteristics. Thomas Barlow Walker was involved in aspects of Minneapolis art. He was a member of the Minneapolis Athenaeum, the first lending library in Minneapolis and he led the progressive wing of Athenaeum members in advocating for a Public Library, established in 1885 with the main library opening in 1889. In the 1870s Walker began collecting paintings and other works of art for his house on 8th, in 1879 Walker built a gallery between his residence and his carriage house to display 20 paintings. This was the first public gallery in the Midwest and he collected landscapes, portraits, historical paintings and bronzes, miniatures, classical and Asian art. By 1892 Walker opened three more rooms and also was contributing art to the public librarys art gallery its location at 10th. In 1908 the Lyndale branch of the Minneapolis Public Library, was created, in 1910 Paul Jerome Jackson was selected as the projects architect. The Librarys Building Committee also determined the two lots were not a sufficient of amount of land to build a library and Mr. Walker donated an additional 30 feet along Hennepin Avenue. On June 13,1911, the Walker Branch Library celebrated its grand opening, the first librarian was Lucy C. By 1912 Walkers residence, art gallery and offices took up one-fourth of the block at 8th, Walker later moved his family and his art to the Thomas Lowry Mansion on Lowry Hill in 1916. In 1920 Walkers compound on 8th and Hennepin was torn down to make way for the State Theater, in the meantime the bulk of the collection was housed at the Minneapolis Public Library while Walker offered to donate land and his collection for a new library and art museum. The proposal was first accepted and then rejected by the city. Instead, Walker Art Center was built in the location that Walker, Minneapolis didn’t get a new main library until 35 years later when the new Minneapolis Central Library was opened at 300 Nicollet Mall in 1960. On October 1,1925 Lucy C, dinsmore resigned, she was replaced by Alta I. Hansen who had worked at the Business Branch
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Washburn Library
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Washburn Library, formerly Washburn Community Library, is a public library in the Hennepin County Library system. Opened in September 1970, Washburn Library, located at 5244 Lyndale Avenue South, began with a footprint of 14,451 square feet, designed by Brooks Cavin, an architect who studied under Walter Gropius and Eero Saarinen, Washburn reflected mid-century modernism. Set near Minnehaha Creek, Washburn meets the needs of Southwest Minneapolis in a picturesque neighborhood, patron traffic quickly rose and broke all records, to meet demand, library staff requested other branches to share their materials. Phonograph albums and childrens books were particularly popular, in the first year of service, Washburn circulated 273,000 books, higher than any other Minneapolis Public Library branch at the time. The Washburn-Crosby Milling Company is now known as General Mills, approaching its 20th anniversary in 1989, the Washburn branch needed to be expanded and updated to meet patrons needs. The community it served had expanded, including more children living in the neighborhoods, in fact, it was the busiest of Minneapoliss 14 neighborhood branch libraries. In 1990, Minneapolis Public Library leadership determined that the library was in need of significant remodeling and approved an expanded footprint of 18,965 square feet, a 28% increase. The space needed to meet the needs of the communitys patrons, deferred maintenance needed to be performed on the building. Leonard Parker and Associates were chosen to develop the plans
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Webber Park Library
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Webber Park Library is a public library in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Its primary service area is the Camden, Minneapolis community, the library was one of thirteen branch libraries established under the leadership of Gratia Countryman, the chief librarian of the Minneapolis Public Library from 1904 to 1936. After starting as a station in a drugstore and being housed in two buildings within Webber Park, it is now in temporary quarters until a new building can be built. The minutes of the Minneapolis Library Board from May 6,1895 noted that the residents of Camden Place had petitions for a station in their area. The Camden Place library station was approved by the Minneapolis Library Board at the July 1,1895 meeting, the 1895 Annual Report noted that Delivery Station E, Camden Place opened in September 1895 and was housed in Coffins Drug Store. William A. Coffin was a druggist and the postmaster for Camden Place and his store was located at 4169 Washington Avenue North, between 41st and 42nd Avenues N. From 1897 to 1900, store ownership was taken over by Leslie A. Hanes, after 1900, the store was owned by Nels A. Winslow. Despite a call to temporarily suspend the station in 1905, it remained active until a permanent library was created in 1910, the Webber Park field house was built in 1910 and the newly created Camden Branch of Minneapolis Public Library was housed in the second floor. The park was named Camden Park from when it was first planned in 1908 until 1939 when it was renamed after the Webbers and this library was created in the effort by library director Gratia Countryman to have libraries created throughout the city of Minneapolis. By the 1930s the population of the Camden community had grown to the point that more space was needed, in 1954 the library acquired the rest of the building from the Minneapolis Park Board and renamed it Webber Park Library. In 1979 the field house was razed to make way for a new swimming pool, Webber Park and 14 other libraries of Minneapolis Public Library were merged into the combined urban/suburban Hennepin County Library in 2008. The 1980 structure began to fail in 2013 and was closed and razed, a temporary location opened in December 2013 at Camden Center,4203 Webber Pkwy. A new library building is being planned and the project process of community engagement is underway
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Augsburg Park Library
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Augsburg Park Library is a public library in Richfield, Minnesota. A Richfield branch library of Hennepin County Library has existed in various buildings in since 1951, named after an adjacent park of the same name, Augsburg Park Library at 7100 Nicollet Avenue South opened in February 1975. Following the purchase of 2.8 acres of land by Hennepin County from the City of Richfield for $99,500, InterDesign, Inc. was chosen as the architect, the new library was two and a half times larger than its predecessor. Leading up to the approval of the construction, there was one significant, soil studies indicated that the ground at Nicollet and 72nd Avenue South consisted of alluvial soil, and needed to be removed before the building began, bumping up construction costs by $35,000. The contract to build the new facility was awarded to Henry O. Mikkelson Company and this library was built on a portion of land previously purchased by the Village of Richfield from Augsburg College in 1949 for $60,000. Costs totaled $889,810 including construction, architect’s fees, the land, landscaping and equipment. In creating the 15,000 square foot building, existing oak trees, remnants of the oak savanna, were retained, before there was a library in Richfield, residents’ needs were met with bookmobile service. The first Richfield branch of the Hennepin County Library opened in February 1951 in rented quarters in a church at 6422 Lyndale Avenue South and was known as the Richfield Library. That same year, the Friends of the Richfield Library Association was established, with a plan to fund the purchase of books, furniture, by 1959, Richfield Library was circulating some 100,000 books per year, the largest in Hennepin County. From 1952 to 1959, patrons grew from 1,540 to 16,000, in September 1952, the library moved to 6700 Portland Avenue South. Richfield’s population was growing rapidly and bookmobile stops were added to accommodate patrons, in 1961, the Hennepin County Library-Augsburg opened at 70th and Nicollet. Designed by architect Ralph Shimer, a Richfield resident, construction was funded in part through Richfield’s municipal liquor store profits in the amount of $100,000, additional funding of $20,000 was provided from Community Center Funds. Demand for services continued to grow, and resulted in the move to the new purpose-built library and it is a geographic bookend to complement Hennepin County Central Library’s position at the north end of Nicollet Avenue. Recently, Minneapolis – St. Paul Magazine chose Augsburg Community Library as “Hennepin County’s Best Library to Read In. ”In August 2013, serving a vibrant neighborhood in both Richfield and nearby Minneapolis, Augsburg Park’s collection includes resources for Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese readers. Included in the library is a collection of folktales in Vietnamese cherished by patrons from Vietnam, several days each week during the school year, homework helpers are available to tutor K-12 students. Since 2007, the library has co-hosted a kite festival in June in partnership with Friends of Augsburg Park Library, librarians at Augsburg create award-winning tailored programs for the community. Tran has also delivered cultural training to the Richfield Police, virginia Morris was recognized by the Richfield Human Rights Commission in 2002, receiving the Gene and Mary Jacobsen Outstanding Citizen Award. Additionally, she was recognized with the Sandy Berman Award for Social Responsibility in Library Services
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Brookdale Library
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Brookdale Library opened in its current location,6125 Shingle Creek Parkway, Brooklyn Center in 1981. Initially, the Library’s space was 31,400 square feet, twenty years later, the building was in need of several updates. In fact, the original design planned for expansion to the facility. A $29.6 million renovation started in May 2002, and was part of the 2001-2005 Hennepin County Capital Improvement Plan, the library’s tab for the 18-month long remodeling was $18 million. Upon reopening, the library’s new footprint is 53,155 square feet, the updates included 144 public access computers, a cyber café-styled teen zone, and space for an additional 50,000 books. The library is organized around “information neighborhoods” which marries collection materials with the mix of technology, worktables. Throughout, daylight filters in from large windows, dedicated spaces are available for quiet study, meeting rooms, and a conference room. Preceding the building of its first library, Brooklyn Center had service from a Hennepin County Bookmobile, the first library in the village of Brooklyn Center, at 5601 Osseo Road, opened on December 29,1965. It was the first public library built in the United States which received funds from the 1964 Library Services, the $250,000 price tag was funded in part by the Federal Library Services Act and by bonds sold by the village of Brooklyn Center. Designed by Cerny and Associates, it was 12,718 square feet, books, staff, and furniture were all provided by Hennepin County. By agreement of the city council, in January 1969, Brooklyn Center’s library was sold to Hennepin County for $185,505 and the library’s land was sold for an additional $34,745. By the summer of 1973, plans were published to replace it with a new Hennepin County Library structure, the library relocated to 6125 Shingle Creek Parkway in August 1981. The Girl Scouts purchased the building on Brooklyn Boulevard, and it became the headquarters of the Greater Minneapolis Girl Council, ray King’s Northern Cascade descends from the ceiling of the rotunda, playing with light reflecting from specially treated glass circles arrayed on a three-dimensional spiral-like structure. Depending on the perspective, time of day and quality of light. Topping it all off, children’s puppet programs are offered in the puppet theater. Supporting the cultural plurality of the neighborhood, the holdings include materials in Hmong, Laotian, Russian, Somali, Spanish. Almost 25% of Brooklyn Center’s residents are foreign-born, celebrating the vibrancy of the neighborhood, library programs range from “Día de los niños, ¡Basta. Arte y piñata/ Childrens Day, Basta, art to Piñata” to “Opera Viva
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Brooklyn Park Library
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Brooklyn Park Library, located at 8500 W. Broadway Ave. opened at its new location in June 2016. It previously served patrons at 8600 Zane Avenue North in Brooklyn Park, designed by Setter, Leach and Lindstrom, at a cost of $814,651, the library is 15,100 square feet and was renovated in 1999. Bookmobile service was provided by Hennepin County Library previously, in November 2013, Hennepin County Board approved construction plans for a new library in Brooklyn Park at the northeast intersection of 85th Avenue and West Broadway. The new building, set to open in 2016, will more than double the size of the current space to meet the growing community’s needs. Feedback from the public regarding their vision of the new library was received through a survey, costs are budgeted at $23.5 million. The children’s area has been designed in collaboration with Minnesota Children’s Museum and will invite families to linger, patrons will be able to experience the library as living room for the community, it will include an open floor plan to facilitate interactions among patrons. The new library incorporates the State of Minnesota’s Sustainable Building Guidelines, a reflection of the growing population and cultural plurality of Brooklyn Park and adjacent cities, three themes will anchor the new library, STEAM, world culture, and geography. A look at the home language for residents in Brooklyn Park reflects the growth and change in the city. A total of 42 different languages are spoken in 11 elementary schools in the city, including Spanish, Hmong, Vietnamese, Creolized English, Lao, currently, the library’s holdings include materials in Hmong, Spanish and Vietnamese. Bruce E. Nygren, a Minneapolis-based painter, created the mural in children’s area at the Zane Ave. location and it depicted a reflecting pool made up of familiar objects in playful juxtaposition. Included are an elephant standing atop a stack of books, a riding a car, pears larger than trucks. Installed in 2004, it is 25 feet long and invites patrons reflect on Nygren’s clever use of the horizon line, the Hennepin County Library system commissioned two public art pieces for the Brooklyn Park Librarys new building. One project was a bike rack sculpture created by Greg Mueller of Mueller Studio, the other piece was a lenticular mural titled Sectio Aurea, which was designed by Norman Lee and Shane Allbritton of RE, site Studio, printed by PolyVision, and installed by Metalab. Homework tutors are available several days a week in the afternoons, a meeting room is also available for patrons’ use. Family and Baby Storytimes, Teen Tech Workshops, Adult Homework Help, Learn Together events for K-3 students, friends of the Brooklyn Park Library actively support the library through book sales, volunteering, and fundraising, in addition to being the voice of the library in the community
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Champlin Library
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Champlin Library, at 12154 Ensign Avenue North in Champlin, Minnesota has served patrons at that address since September 1994. Designed by TSP Architects and Engineers, at a cost of $1.2 million, the first public library in Champlin, sponsored by the Champlin Women’s Club, opened in 1913 in a small rented room and was open only on Saturday afternoons and evenings. In 1921, the Women’s Club purchased a cottage and converted it into a library. The new facility, known as the Champlin Reading Center, measured 1,600 square feet when it opened in and held about 8,000 books in addition to materials, music, films. An addition to the building in 1981 provided 600 more square feet to the library, during construction, library service was provided by bookmobile parked out front of the library. The 87% growth of Champlin’s population from 1980 to 1990, friends of the Champlin Library formed in May 1979, and have raised money for the library with semi-annual book sales. Mellissa Sibley, librarian at Champlin from 1986 to 1996, convened a citizens’ art committee to select additions for the new library, the first installation was “The Seasons” by Dawn Purtle, a stained glass work placed over the entryway. Ruth Stephens, a librarian at Champlin, funded part of the purchase of the work. Christopher Tully, a Minnesota artist, has two commissions in Champlin Library, suspended from the atrium is his “Herons in the Library, ” a trio of vibrant-hued birds flying through the air toward the children’s area. Joining the herons on a wall is Tully’s “Mississippi Flight, ” a three-dimensional wall mural, depicting Minnesota’s wildlife. The river is prominent in Champlin’s geography as it marks the eastern and northern boundaries of the city, “Teen Wall Collage” by Christopher Bailey Foote, was installed on September 11,2004, marking the 10th anniversary of the current library. The collage features scenes from Champlin’s history and peers into the future, reflecting the needs of its community, the Champlin Library has holdings in Hmong and Russian
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Eden Prairie Library
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The Eden Prairie Library is located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota and is one of 41 libraries of the Hennepin County Library system. At the time of its opening in 2004, the Eden Prairie Library was the first public building in Minnesota to incorporate a hydrogen fuel cell to produce electricity. The Eden Prairie Library has the highest circulation of all the Hennepin County libraries, Eden Prairie’s first community library was located in the Eden Prairie Consolidated School, which opened in 1924. The school board contracted with Hennepin County Library to use the library space. Eventually the school increased to the point that there was no space for the county collection. The Hennepin County Bookmobile then served the community until the 1970s, in 1986 a new 15,000 square foot building was completed on Prairie Center Drive at a cost of $1.58 million. This new location known as the Eden Prairie Community Library. Eden Prairie experienced rapid growth during the two decades, growing from a population of 16,000 in 1980 to a population of 54,000 in 2000. Hennepin County Library saw the need for a facility in the community. The project suffered a six-month shut down until The Keystone Group was chosen to complete the construction, water damage occurring during the shut down required remediation work, adding $1 million in cost to the county. After a delay of nearly a year the new Eden Prairie Library opened its doors to the public on August 12,2004. A hydrogen fuel cell installed in the Eden Prairie Library facility in 2004 was the first of its kind to be installed in a building in Minnesota. ”Five kilowatts of electricity could be produced by the library’s fuel cell. Hennepin County Library incorporates public artwork into many of its locations, through the One Percent for Art program, one percent of the project costs for building projects of $1 million or more is dedicated to the selection, purchase and installation of public artwork. The Eden Prairie Library installations of public artwork funded by the One Percent for Art program, include, masonry treatment of stone, tile and brick, located on the north-facing exterior wall Untitled by David Culver. Masonry treatment of tile and stone, located on interior pillars Sleeping Man, masonry treatment of stone, tile and brick, located on outdoor planters at front entrance. The planters include the following carved poem, To Make a Prairie by Emily Dickinson To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, the revery alone will do, If bees are few. Pigment painted industrial felt colored forms, 100% New Zealand wool knotted area, ceramic tile mosaic, custom metal hooks, children’s coat rack located in Children’s Area
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Edina Library
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Edina Library is located at 5280 Grandview Square in Edina, Minnesota. The library shares facilities with the Edina Senior Center and it enjoys 18,000 square feet of floor space, and includes a meeting room, great room with fireplace, and a children’s room. Opened in 2002, the co-location of the library with the Senior Center has fostered connections between all ages of the community, the previous library was built in 1967 at 50th and Vernon Avenue at a cost of $439,807. Approximately 25% of construction costs were paid in part by a library grant. In fact, Edina was the first library in Hennepin County to receive federal funds toward construction costs. From the earliest planning meetings, Edina Library was intended to be joined by a regional library elsewhere in Edina, edina’s library roots go back to September 1921, and predate Hennepin County Library system. Four months before Hennepin County Library began its library services. In 1926, the relocated to 50th and Wooddale, and in 1928. This move allowed Edina to have its first free-standing public library, the Morningside library was closed by the Hennepin County Board, effective December 31,1976. In 1954, a second Edina Branch Library opened at 4120 West 50th Street, the former residence of James Bull, it was given to the City by Russell Lund and George Kruse. With room for between 6,000 and 7,000 books, space was limited to children’s and young adult’s books, the space was considered quite small by the standards of the American Library Association. As a result, the League of Women Voters began campaigning in 1962 for a library for Edina. In 1967, following considerable preparation, plans were announced to build on 50th Street, the building, known as the Edina Community Library, opened in September 1968 at 4701 West 50th Street next to the Village Hall. Construction costs totaled $410,000, with 15,500 square feet of floor space, the space was designed by Arthur Dickey, an Edina resident, and included a reading room for adults, a children’s room, a drive-up service window, and a multi-purpose room. Art reproductions, displayed near the vestibule, were available for checkout by patrons. Edina was the first branch library in the Hennepin County Library system to loan art prints, when the current library opened in April 2002, Edina razed the old library to make way for a new city hall and policy department. A Chrysalis Room anchors a dedicated space for children’s and teen events program, patrons can also use the room for help with homework, story time, or learning English as a second language. In fact the library has a collection of Chinese and French materials
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Hopkins Library
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Library service to the Hopkins, Minnesota community was established more than 100 years ago, when the library was housed in City Hall. The library moved to the historic Dow House in 1948 and then temporarily to a vacant restaurant in 1963, the library opened in its current location in 1968 and was renovated in 2002. The library joined Hennepin County Library in 1973, in 1910, the population of the Village of West Minneapolis, as Hopkins was first called, was 3,022. But something was missing from the village, There wasnt a library, three rooms were reserved, and soon the league and Hopkins high alumni stocked books, organized shelves and began childrens story hours. The first librarian of this library was Lillian Wheeler. By 1915, the village had budgeted $700 a year to fund this young library, about 458 were checked out each month and, in just three years,1,050 library cards were issued. Children’s story hours were put on by the League with up to 175 children attending, along with donated and purchased English language books, a collection of 1,200 Czech language books were donated by the Western Bohemian Fraternal Association of Glen Lake. The Czech-language books were a source of pride for the immigrants, in 1931, a lively debate was sparked in Hopkins over whether the city library should merge with the Hennepin County Library system. The county system was formed just after the Hopkins Library opened, according to The Hennepin County Review circa 1931, the Hopkins Village Council spent many hours hearing debate on the issue. The meetings were long and heavily attended, the citizenry was very invested in the outcome and those opposed objected to higher taxes as well as the loss of control, they wanted the autonomy to stock the titles they wanted, notably the Czech books. Those in favor supported the merger for expanded access to books for local schools. The Library Board voted in mid-March to approve the merger by a vote of 8-1, Mayor Hagen commissioned the village council to study the measure—and ultimately, the village council rejected it on a 3-2 vote. At the next meeting, Miss Lindborg, principal at the Harley Hopkins School and its loss, she pointed out, would greatly limit reference reading, because without the support of county funding the city simply couldnt stock as many volumes. Finally, on April 28, the council opted to let the public decide the matter—and set a special election for May 23,1931. The two sides squared off respectively in The Hennepin County Review and The Minneapolis Journal—and the factions were equally passionate in their viewpoints, but perhaps the most compelling arguments came from The Hopkins Taxpayers League, formed specifically to oppose the merger. The league argued in The Hennepin County Review that increased county taxes would be burdensome and they even went so far as to point out that Hennepin County, at that time, had no board—and therefore would have no governance. The argument turned personal when the league questioned Mayor Hagen’s loyalty to the village, finally, they assured readers that the current collection of books in the Czech language would remain at the library. On May 23, the election was held
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Bloomington, Minnesota
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Bloomington is the fourth largest city in the U. S. state of Minnesota. It is located in Hennepin County on the bank of the Minnesota River. Bloomington lies 10 miles south of downtown Minneapolis, the citys population is 86,435, according to the 2015 United States Census estimates. Large-scale commercial development is concentrated along the Interstate 494 corridor, Bloomington has more jobs per capita than either Minneapolis or Saint Paul, due to the United States largest enclosed shopping center, the Mall of America. The headquarters of Ceridian, Donaldson Company, HealthPartners and Toro, the city was named after Bloomington, Illinois. In 1843, Peter and Louisa Quinn, the first European settlers to live in Bloomington, the government had sent them to teach farming methods to the Native Americans. Gideon Hollister Pond, a missionary, who had been following and recording the Dakota language from Cloud Mans band, relocated later that year, establishing Oak Grove Mission, Pond and his family held church services and taught the local Dakota school subjects and farming. Passage across the Minnesota River in Bloomington came in 1849 when William Chambers, the ferry remained operational until 1889, when the Bloomington Ferry Bridge was built. Following the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851, the territory west of the Mississippi River, a group of pioneers settled Bloomington, including the Goodrich, Whalon, and Ames families. They named the area Bloomington after the city they were from, Bloomington, Illinois, most early jobs were in farming, blacksmithing, and flour milling. The Oxborough family, who came from Canada, built a center on Lyndale Avenue. Today, the Clover Shopping Center rests near the old trading center site, in 1855, the first public school for all children was opened in Miss Harrisons house with the first school, Gibson House, built in 1859. On May 11,1858, the day the state of Minnesota was admitted into the union, by 1880, the population had grown to 820. In 1892 the first town hall was built at Penn and Old Shakopee Road, by then, the closest Dakota to Minneapolis lived at the residence of Gideon Pond. After 1900, the population surpassed a thousand and Bloomington began to transform into a city, with rising population came conflict among citizens over social issues. Among the major issues during this period were parents unwillingness to dissolve the individual schools for a larger, consolidated school, by 1900, there were already six rural schools spread throughout the territory with over 200 students enrolled in grades first through eighth. By 1917, the school consolidation issue had been settled and that year voters approved the consolidation of the schools and a year later secondary education and school bus transportation began throughout the city. From 1940 to 1960, the population increased to nine times that of the population at the turn of the century
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Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
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Brooklyn Center is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The city is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River on the northwest border of Minneapolis, the population was 30,104 at the 2010 census. Brooklyn Center is one of the original inner-ring suburbs of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, formed as the center of local trade in the former Brooklyn Township since 1873, the rural area farmed market gardening for the nearby growing population of Minneapolis. The village of Brooklyn Center incorporated in 1911, splitting from Brooklyn Township and it incorporated as a city in 1966. The city became a community and industrial job center following postwar growth. It was the site of the regional mall Brookdale Center, the headquarters of Caribou Coffee moved into the city in 2004. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 8.34 square miles. Interstates 94 and 694 and Minnesota State Highways 100 and 252 are four of the routes in Brooklyn Center. Known as the center of trade in the former Brooklyn Township since 1873. With fears the downtown city would continue annexation, the village of Brooklyn Center was established in 1911, the city of Brooklyn Center was incorporated in 1966. The city contains the site of the historic Earle Brown farm, home to Earle Brown, founder of the Minnesota State Patrol, the farm has been refurbished and now contains a bed and breakfast, event center, and various office spaces. The Global Operations Center of MoneyGram is located in Brooklyn Center, when the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, also known as MECC, existed, its headquarters were in Brooklyn Center. Brooklyn Center is home to regional favorite Surly Brewing Company, Minnesota Martial Arts Academy, now known simply as the Academy, an MMA training center, is also located in Brooklyn Center. It has trained such notable fighters as Sean Sherk and Brock Lesnar, Brooklyn Center is home to the FBIs new Minneapolis field office, which began construction in August 2010. The population density was 3,781.9 inhabitants per square mile, there were 11,640 housing units at an average density of 1,462.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 49. 1% White,25. 9% African American,0. 8% Native American,14. 3% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,5. 4% from other races, and 4. 4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9. 6% of the population,27. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.78 and the family size was 3.43
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Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
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Brooklyn Park is the sixth largest city in the U. S. state of Minnesota. The city is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, Brooklyn Park is a northwest suburb of the Twin Cities Metropolitan area of Minneapolis–Saint Paul. Brooklyn Park is the second largest suburb of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the sixteenth largest metropolitan area in the United States, the population was 79,149 according to 2015 US census estimates. Brooklyn Park is listed as a Tree City USA, and is home to 47 miles of trails, and 67 award-winning parks, including the Rush Creek Regional Trail, and the northern section of the Palmer Lake Park. The city is known for the West Coon Rapids Dam. North Hennepin Community College and a campus of Hennepin Technical College are located in the city, Brooklyn Park is the home of Edinburgh USA Golf Course, one of the top public golf courses in the United States. The city still hosts undeveloped land and farms, including the historic Eidem Homestead, a 1900s working farm that serves as a popular tourist attraction for families and school field trips. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 26.57 square miles. Interstates 94 and 694 are located in the far southern portion of Brooklyn Park, U. S. Highway 169 is located near the western part of the city. State Highway 252, a 4.5 mile north–south highway, is located near the portion of the city. State Highway 610 runs east–west through the portion of Brooklyn Park. County Road 81 also serves as one of the main routes, formerly Brooklyn Township, the township split in 1860, with the southeast village later incorporating into Brooklyn Center and Crystal. Settlers from Michigan formally established the township and named it after their hometown of Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park incorporated as a village in 1954, and incorporated as a city in 1969. Brooklyn Park is served by three districts, Osseo Area School District 279, Anoka-Hennepin School District 11, and Robbinsdale School District 281. The district in which the school resides in is listed in Parentheses, maranatha Christian Academy, a private high school, is also located in Brooklyn Park. Colleges include North Hennepin Community College, Hennepin Technical College and Rasmussen College, the city of Brooklyn Park is known for Edinburgh USA Golf Course, designed and created by Robert Trent Jones II. Edinburgh USA is one of the top golf courses in the country. It has been named to the top 100 places to play in the U. S. by Golf Magazine and its Scottish-style clubhouse offers a full-service restaurant and over 10,000 square feet of flexible meeting and banquet space
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Champlin, Minnesota
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Champlin is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 23,089 at the 2010 census, Champlin is a northern suburb of Minneapolis. U. S. Highway 169 and Hennepin County Road 12 are two of the routes in Champlin. The city of Champlin is located along the Mississippi River, surrounded by the cities of Anoka, Dayton, Brooklyn Park, Maple Grove and Coon Rapids,18 miles northwest of Minneapolis. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 8.73 square miles. The average elevation is 875 feet above sea level, and the Mississippi River is approximately one-eighth of a mile wide throughout Champlin. The Champlin area was first settled when Father Louis Hennepin, a Franciscan priest from whom Hennepin County gets its name, Michael Accult, an Indian trading post was eventually established in the area. Charles Miles created the first permanent settlement in what came to be named Marshall Township, in 1859, it was split into two towns, Champlin and Dayton. The name Champlin came from the name of U. S. Navy Commodore Stephen Champlin. He was active in the war against England and Canada in 1812 and he died in Buffalo, New York, February 20,1870. The Commodores daughter, Eliza Ellen Champlin, was married on August 30,1853, Cook, a partner of Minnesotas Alexander Ramsey. Although Cook was never a resident of Champlin, he was involved in real estate transactions in Champlin, all of the schools are clustered in an educational neighborhood near the intersection of 109th Avenue North and Douglas Avenue North. Oxbow Creek Elementary School is located in Brooklyn Park, Champlin Elementary School was built in 1938 to service the primary educational needs of Champlins school children. It served approximately 350 students in the 1st through 5th grades each year - about 1/3 the size of the newer Oxbow Creek Elementary, Champlin Elementary School received students directly from the Park View Early Childhood Center. Champlin Elementary was closed in the summer of 2010, due to cuts in the district. It combined with Riverview Elementary School to make the Champlin–Brooklyn Academy of Math, students began attending the newly joined school during the 2010–2011 school year. Champlin Park High School is also one of the largest high schools in the state and it is in the Northwest Suburban Conference with large athletic and music programs. Champlin Park High School receives students directly from Jackson Middle School, Jackson Middle School was expanded in 2001 to become one of the largest junior high schools in the state of Minnesota
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Crystal, Minnesota
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Crystal is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 22,151 at the 2010 census, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.88 square miles, of which 5.78 square miles is land and 0.10 square miles is water. Minnesota State Highway 100 and County Road 81 are two of the routes in the city. Other routes include Douglas Drive North, 36th Avenue North, 42nd Avenue North, Crystal Airport, a small general aviation field, is located within the city limits. The city is bordered on the north by the city of Brooklyn Park, on the northeast by Brooklyn Center, on the east by Robbinsdale, on the south by Golden Valley, the City of Crystal has more than 240 acres dedicated to parks and open space. The city maintains 27 parks as well as ball fields, courts, playgrounds, trails. The Crystal Community Center features an aquatic center, skate park. Crystal has been awarded the Minnesota Star City designation for economic development, as of the census of 2010, there were 22,151 people,9,183 households, and 5,640 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,832.4 inhabitants per square mile, there were 9,634 housing units at an average density of 1,666.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 78. 1% White,10. 5% African American,0. 7% Native American,3. 9% Asian,3. 0% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. 5% of the population. 30. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 2.97. The median age in the city was 38.1 years. 21. 6% of residents were under the age of 18,7. 8% were between the ages of 18 and 24,30. 7% were from 25 to 44,26. 5% were from 45 to 64, and 13. 7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49. 2% male and 50. 8% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 22,698 people,9,389 households, and 6,102 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,929.3 people per square mile, there were 9,481 housing units at an average density of 1,641.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 88. 34% White,4. 20% African American,0. 59% Native American,3. 44% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,1. 03% from other races, and 2. 39% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 51% of the population,27. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the family size was 2.92
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Eden Prairie, Minnesota
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Eden Prairie is an edge city 12 miles southwest of downtown Minneapolis in Hennepin County, and the 12th-largest city in the State of Minnesota. It is on the bank of the Minnesota River, upstream from its confluence with the Mississippi River. Eden Prairie and nearby suburbs form the southwest portion of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Eden Prairie had a population of 60,797 at the 2010 census, which made it the 7th-largest suburb in the Twin Cities and the 12th-largest city in Minnesota. Comprising many large lakes and ponds, the city has more than 170 miles of trails,2,250 acres of parks. A bedroom suburb in the 1960s, the city is now home to more than 2,200 businesses, robinson Worldwide, MTS Systems Corporation, and the Minnesota Vikings. Regionally known for Eden Prairie Center, it is also the hub for SouthWest Transit, KMSP and WFTC are also based in Eden Prairie. Eden Prairie has many walking trails around its beautiful lakes, namely Purgatory Creek, Eden Prairie has been named one of Money Magazines Best Places to Live in America since 2006, the city earned first place in the 2010 survey and second place in 2016. For most of its existence, Eden Prairie has been a slow-growing, between 1880 and 1960, Eden Prairie’s population only grew from about 739 to 2,000. Native Americans were the first to live in the area, originally, the land was part of the Great Dakota Nation, but when the Ojibwa arrived from the Great Lakes region, the tribes began to clash over the land. On May 25,1858, a battle was fought between the Dakota and the Ojibwa in the part of Eden Prairie, just north of the Minnesota River. The Ojibwa people wished to avenge the murder of one of their people committed the previous fall by the Dakota, the Ojibwa had 200 warriors, the Dakota somewhere between 60 and 70, but the Dakota proved victorious, wounding the young Chief of the Ojibwa tribe. The tribes continued to fight over territory well into the 1860s, even after the Sioux Uprising of 1862, among the notable Native Americans who lived in the Eden Prairie area was Chief Shoto. He died in 1899 at the age of 99 at his home in Eden Prairie, in 1851, a treaty opened land west of the Mississippi River to settlement allowing pioneers to settle in what is now Eden Prairie. Many early farmhouses are left in the town, and can be found on the National Register of Historic Places, one of these early settlers was John Cummins, an Irish-born immigrant who built what is now referred to as the Cummins-Phipps-Grill House with his wife Mattie in 1880. The Cummins family sold this property to the Phipps family 1908, Eden Prairies town board held its first meeting in a log schoolhouse on May 11,1858, the same day Minnesota became a state. Eden Prairies farming community grew slowly over the years, flying Cloud Airport was the first sign of big development in 1946. The 1960s and 1970s were decades of growth for the citys parks, in the mid-1970s, the community gained a higher profile with the addition of Interstate Highway 494 and the Eden Prairie Shopping Center. Eden Prairie became a village in 1962, and a city in 1974
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Edina, Minnesota
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Edina is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and a suburb situated immediately southwest of Minneapolis. Edina began as a farming and milling community in the 1860s. The population was 47,941 as of 2010, Edina began as part of Richfield Township, Minnesota. By the 1870s,17 families, most of them immigrating as a result of the famine in Ireland, had come to Minnesota. They were followed by settlers from New England and Germany, who claimed land near Minnehaha Creek. The Baird and Grimes neighborhoods, and the Country Club District are located in the northeast part of Edina, the area then known as the Cahill Settlement, at West 70th Street and Cahill Road, was also an early community center and the home of Cahill School. In 1888, the residents of the township held a meeting to consider founding a new village, the idea was favorably accepted by those within the community and a committee was established to oversee the transition. After the decision was made to form a new village, a debate ensued regarding the naming of the new village, several town meetings were held in the Minnehaha Grange Hall, during which the names Hennepin Park, Westfield and Edina were suggested. Minutes taken by Henry F. Brown, a farmer and future owner of the Edina Mill, are summarized as follows, a motion was made and passed to reconsider the vote taken at the previous meeting of the name of the proposed village, Westfield. Another motion was made by Andrew Craik to call the proposed village Edina. Before the motion could be decided, James A. Bull, a member of the five person committee, made another motion to adjourn, during this heated moment the meeting became somewhat boisterous until, after a few minutes order was restored. Seeing that no work could be done at this time. At the next meeting, the name Edina was finally chosen with a vote of 47 for and 42 against, the 1860 census, however, indicates that there were no Scottish people in Edina in 1860, and only a couple were present at the time of Edinas founding. The first suburban development in Edina occurred during the early 1900s in Morningside, as Morningside grew, conflict arose between its residents who wanted more city services, and the residents of the rest of the village who wanted to maintain Edinas rural character. As a result of conflict, Morningside seceded from Edina in 1920. In 1966, however, the Village of Morningside once again part of Edina. According to historian Deborah Morse-Kahn, the Quaker village that existed where Edina would be built included African Americans who became involved in community life—especially as leaders. At the November 1898 general election, J. Frank Wheaton, a Republican African-American, was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives representing District 42, in the early 20th century discriminatory policies led nearly all of the African Americans who had been living in Edina to move away
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Excelsior, Minnesota
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Excelsior is a city on Lake Minnetonka in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The suburb is located 12 miles west of South Minneapolis, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.69 square miles, of which 0.63 square miles is land and 0.06 square miles is water. Minnesota State Highway 7 serves as a main route, Excelsior is located 20 miles west–southwest of downtown Minneapolis. Excelsior was founded in 1853 by George Bertram and the Excelsior Pioneer Association and it was the first community established on Lake Minnetonka. Many of the settlers in Excelsior came from the New England area, particularly upstate New York. Some eastern-like features can be found in the layout of the town, throughout the years, Excelsiors Water Street has been the home to many businesses including hotels, restaurants, and merchants. Excelsior was also home to the Excelsior Amusement Park, which operated from 1925 to 1973, today the site is occupied by a condominium complex and two restaurants. Ray Colihan owned a ballroom called Big Reggies Danceland in Excelsior during the 1950s and 1960s, mr. Jimmy, as he was known, died on October 3,2007. President Gerald Fords golden retriever, Liberty, was purchased in 1974 from Avis Friberg, now operated by the Museum of Lake Minnetonka, it again carries passengers between the communities of Excelsior and Wayzata as it did over a century ago. The Minnesota Streetcar Museum, a transportation museum, also operates two heritage streetcar lines in Minneapolis and Excelsior. Two streetcars are operated on the Excelsior line, Twin City Lines No.1239. As of the census of 2010, there were 2,188 people,1,115 households, the population density was 3,473.0 inhabitants per square mile. There were 1,254 housing units at a density of 1,990.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 90. 4% White,2. 7% African American,0. 6% Native American,1. 5% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,2. 2% from other races, and 2. 5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 9% of the population,48. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 12. 2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.92 and the family size was 2.82. The median age in the city was 42 years. 19. 1% of residents were under the age of 18,8. 1% were between the ages of 18 and 24,27. 4% were from 25 to 44,30. 3% were from 45 to 64, and 15. 4% were 65 years of age or older
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Golden Valley, Minnesota
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Golden Valley is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is a suburb of Minneapolis and is the main corporate headquarters of General Mills. Golden Valley is also the home of NBC affiliate KARE, the Perpich Center for Arts Education, the population was 20,371 at the 2010 census. Tribes of Chippewa and Sioux had encampments on nearby Medicine Lake, the first white settlers arrived in the early 1850s. Golden Valley was incorporated December 17,1886, in the early twentieth century, it was mostly a farming community. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 10.55 square miles. The 45th parallel north runs through Golden Valley, coinciding approximately with Duluth Street, interstate 394, U. S. Highway 169, and Minnesota State Highways 55 and 100 are four of the main routes in the area. Most children who live in Golden Valley attend the Robbinsdale School District or the Hopkins School District, some students attend public schools in other school districts chosen by their families under Minnesotas open enrollment statute. Carl Sandburg Junior High School opened in 1959, in 1988, it became Sandburg Middle School. There is also a private elementary Catholic School named Good Shepherd Catholic School and its name was changed in 2006 from the former Parkvalley Catholic. What is currently the site of the Perpich Center for Arts Education was originally the Golden Valley Lutheran College and this is because of the presence of large employers including General Mills, Honeywell, and Pentair. The population density was 1,997.2 inhabitants per square mile, there were 9,349 housing units at an average density of 916.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 85. 4% White,7. 1% African American,0. 4% Native American,3. 5% Asian,0. 9% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 6% of the population. 30. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 14. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 2.84. The median age in the city was 45.7 years. 19. 9% of residents were under the age of 18,5. 1% were between the ages of 18 and 24,23. 7% were from 25 to 44,30. 9% were from 45 to 64, and 20. 3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48. 6% male and 51. 4% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 20,281 people,8,449 households, and 5,508 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,982.3 people per square mile, there were 8,589 housing units at an average density of 839.5 per square mile
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Hopkins, Minnesota
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Hopkins is a suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, located west of Minneapolis. The city is four miles in size and is surrounded by the larger, west suburban communities of Minnetonka, Saint Louis Park. Hopkins is about 98% developed with little remaining vacant land, the population was 17,591 at the 2010 census. U. S. Highway 169 and Minnesota State Highway 7 are two of the routes in the area. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 4.11 square miles. There are several ponds on the western side of Hopkins. One of these creeks includes Minnehaha Creek, the north branch of Nine Mile Creek has its headwaters in Hopkins at the intersection of 13th Avenue South and Excelsior Boulevard. As of the census of 2010, there were 17,591 people,8,366 households, the population density was 4,311.5 inhabitants per square mile. There were 8,987 housing units at a density of 2,202.7 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 70. 4% White,13. 5% African American,0. 6% Native American,8. 5% Asian,3. 4% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 7. 9% of the population. 43. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.07 and the average family size was 2.93. The median age in the city was 34.4 years. 21. 1% of residents were under the age of 18,8. 4% were between the ages of 18 and 24,34. 3% were from 25 to 44,23. 4% were from 45 to 64, and 12. 6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47. 6% male and 52. 4% female, at the 2000 census, there were 17,145 people,8,224 households and 3,741 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,205.9 per square mile, there were 8,390 housing units at an average density of 2,058.2 pe square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 82. 61% White,5. 19% African American,0. 78% Native American,5. 92% Asian,0. 09% Pacific Islander,2. 58% from other races, and 2. 82% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 54% of the population,23. 9% were of German,12. 4% Norwegian,7. 4% Irish and 7. 1% Swedish ancestry. 42. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 12. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.03 and the average family size was 2.85
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Long Lake, Minnesota
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Long Lake is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,768 at the 2010 census, the first settlers arrived in Long Lake in early spring,1855. The first permanent settlement was established in May 1855 with the arrival of the Flemings and this first settlement was named Cumberland Town and consisted of a saw mill, general store and schoolhouse. The platted area Cumberland Addition can trace its roots to early period. The Knettles house became a stop for travelers between 1855 and 1860 and is the location of the first public religious service in the community. The first post office was established in 1856, which was named Tamarack in recognition of the Tamarack swamps in the part of the country. A significant aspect of the settlement of Long Lake was the relationship between the Dakota, the Chippewa and the settlers. The origin of the Union Cemetery is found in this tripartite relationship, the area where the cemetery is located was called Teepee Hill in these early years. It served as an encampment for the Chippewa in 1859–1860, the Dakota were informed of the location of the Chippewa through two settlers in the area. This information prompted many of the Dakota to be in and around Long Lake, although there was no fighting and the actual intentions of the Dakota are not clear, their presence in the area forced the Chippewa to vacate Teepee Hill. This area was acquired by Bradford Wakefield, most probably through squatters rights, during the middle to late 19th century, Long Lake developed like many other towns. These institutions were all-important elements to early development in the Upper Midwest. The late 1890s – early 1900s became known as the years in Long Lake. The Minnesota Fruit Growers Association was established in Long Lake in 1898 to focus on promoting strawberry and raspberry production and these products became a regional specialty with shipments going as far as Fargo and Grand Forks, North Dakota. The catalyst for the expansion of the city limits was a desire by Long Lakes neighbors to take advantage of the decision to install a sewer system. Those areas that wanted to be connected to city sewer were annexed by the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 0.93 square miles. West Wayzata Boulevard, now Hennepin County Road 112, and U. S. Highway 12 both serve as the routes in the community
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Maple Grove, Minnesota
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Maple Grove is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 61,567 at the 2010 census but has been growing rapidly since then, Maple Grove serves as the retail, cultural and medical center of the northwest region of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. One of the Twin Cities largest shopping centers, The Shoppes at Arbor Lakes, is located in Maple Grove, winnebago were the only inhabitants in the area of Maple Grove until 1851 when Louis Gervais arrived and settled. Four years later, in 1855, city growth included a church, town hall, the city was known for its large stands of maple trees and was, therefore, a significant source for maple syrup. With the completion and major upgrades to Interstates 94 /694,494, Maple Grove has grown into one of the most populous cities in the Twin Cities area, and identified as one of the fastest growing cities in the state. Maple Grove was also named the second best place to live in 2014 by Money magazine. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 35.03 square miles. Maple Grove is home to a regional Boston Scientific research, development and manufacturing facility, other major employers include the Independent School District 279 and the city of Maple Grove. The city is home to a 2, 000-acre gravel mining area owned by Tiller Corporation, active since the 1920s, the GMA is slowly being developed into a residential and commercial downtown. The first phase included Main Street, a collection of one-, the second phase was generally considered to be the Shoppes of Arbor Lakes and the third phase was the Fountains at Arbor Lakes. F. Changs, World Market, and numerous other upscale stores and this lifestyle center was built in 2003 and has been replicated in Woodbury, Minnesota. Maple Groves Shoppes at Arbor Lakes is 412,000 square feet in size and is home to more than 65 stores, the most recent Arbor Lakes development is a hybrid power center development called The Fountains at Arbor Lakes. At 850,000 square feet, this complex includes stores such as Costco, Caribou Coffee, Subway, DSW, Lowes, REI. The Fountains also includes Minnesotas most energy efficient building, Great River Energy Headquarters, Maple Groves most recent development, The Grove, is located at the intersection of Interstate 94 and Maple Grove Parkway. This district is home to the new North Memorial/Fairview hospital complex, SuperTarget, Home Depot, Slumberland, the central portion of the project is designed to be pedestrian-friendly and encourage a small-town atmosphere within the larger scale of the development. Maple Grove is home to more retail than nearly any other city in the state, second only to Bloomington, the home of the Mall of America. Maple Grove itself is likely to have nearly 6 million square feet of development at build out. One prominent retail complex is the Grove Square shopping mall, which has a JCPenney anchor store
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Maple Plain, Minnesota
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Maple Plain is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,768 at the 2010 census, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.12 square miles, of which 1.11 square miles is land and 0.01 square miles is water. Maple Plain is located 20 miles west of Minneapolis on U. S. Highway 12, Pioneer Creek flows through the northwest corner of Maple Plain. Maple Plain is named for the sugar maples in its forests. Early settlement of the began in 1854 and revolved around Lake Independence to its north. In 1868 and 1869, the St. Paul, Pacific, by 1871, Maple Plain had a post office. The city was incorporated as a village in 1912, village water came to the town in 1939, sewer circa 1950, and blacktop in 1961. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,768 people,723 households, the population density was 1,592.8 inhabitants per square mile. There were 775 housing units at a density of 698.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 94. 2% White,2. 0% African American,0. 3% Native American,0. 6% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,1. 4% from other races, and 1. 4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. 8% of the population,29. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the family size was 2.94. The median age in the city was 43.1 years. 22. 1% of residents were under the age of 18,8. 3% were between the ages of 18 and 24,22. 7% were from 25 to 44,33. 4% were from 45 to 64, and 13. 6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 50. 0% male and 50. 0% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 2,088 people,770 households, and 536 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,875.4 people per square mile, there were 786 housing units at an average density of 706.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 97. 65% White,0. 48% African American,0. 24% Native American,0. 62% Asian,0. 38% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 91% of the population. 25. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.15
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Minneapolis
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Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2015, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul anchor the second-largest economic center in the Midwest, after Chicago. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul. It was once the worlds flour milling capital and a hub for timber, the city and surrounding region is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle, with Minneapolis proper containing Americas fifth-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. As an integral link to the economy, Minneapolis is categorized as a global city. Noted for its music and performing arts scenes, Minneapolis is home to both the award-winning Guthrie Theater and the historic First Avenue nightclub. The name Minneapolis is attributed to Charles Hoag, the citys first schoolteacher, who combined mni, a Dakota Sioux word for water, and polis, Dakota Sioux had long been the regions sole residents when French explorers arrived around 1680. For a time relations were based on fur trading, gradually more European-American settlers arrived, competing for game and other resources with the Dakota. In the early 19th century, the United States acquired this territory from France, fort Snelling was built in 1819 by the United States Army, and it attracted traders, settlers and merchants, spurring growth in the area. The United States government pressed the Mdewakanton band of the Dakota to sell their land, the Minnesota Territorial Legislature authorized present-day Minneapolis as a town in 1856 on the Mississippis west bank. Minneapolis incorporated as a city in 1867, the rail service began between Minneapolis and Chicago. It later joined with the city of St. Anthony in 1872. Minneapolis developed around Saint Anthony Falls, the highest waterfall on the Mississippi River, forests in northern Minnesota were a valuable resource for the lumber industry, which operated seventeen sawmills on power from the waterfall. By 1871, the west river bank had twenty-three businesses, including mills, woolen mills, iron works, a railroad machine shop, and mills for cotton, paper, sashes. Due to the hazards of milling, six local sources of artificial limbs were competing in the prosthetics business by the 1890s. The farmers of the Great Plains grew grain that was shipped by rail to the citys thirty-four flour mills, a father of modern milling in America and founder of what became General Mills, Cadwallader C. Some ideas were developed by William Dixon Gray and some acquired through industrial espionage from the Hungarians by William de la Barre, pillsbury Company across the river were barely a step behind, hiring Washburn employees to immediately use the new methods. The hard red spring wheat that grows in Minnesota became valuable, not until later did consumers discover the value in the bran that Minneapolis
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Mound, Minnesota
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Mound is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 9,052 at the 2010 census, Mound is the birthplace of the Tonka truck, named after Lake Minnetonka. The Tonka Toys headquarters was originally in Mound, but moved to facilitate material deliveries, Mound is about twenty miles west of downtown Minneapolis, the county seat. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 4.96 square miles. County Roads 15 and 110 are two of the main routes, lakes in Mound include Black Lake, Dutch Lake, Lake Langdon, Saunders Lake, and Seton Lake. Lake Minnetonka encompasses these and many others in the area, Mound has more than 1,000 docks on its various lakes. The lakes geographically define the areas, such as Three Points, The Island, The Highlands, Grandview Boulevard. Lake Langdon is located immediately west of Mound, between an old Great Northern railroad line and Lake Minnetonka, one of its most notable places is an old ice house and grocery store at the east side of the lake. The store for years in the 1940s and 1950s was owned and operated by Ed and Pete Sollie. According to Melvin Gimmestads Historical Backgrounds of Mound, Minnesota, Mound derived its name from the Indian mounds once found within the present day city limits and they were not built by the Dakota Indians, but were made by prehistoric Indians. Mound celebrated its centennial in 2012, because the Westonka School District encompasses Mound, the city is also connected to Spring Park, Orono, St. St. Bonifacius, and Minnetrista. Mound schools include Grandview Middle School, Hilltop Primary School, Mound–Westonka High School, the school mascot is the Whitehawk, which was changed from the Mohawk in 1997. Some students attend schools in other school districts chosen by their families under Minnesotas open enrollment statute. The Mound City Council has been working for years on a project named Mound Visions. One of the goals is to improve business traffic in the city. Some of its recent accomplishments are the Mound Marketplace, the realignment of County Road 15, the Lost Lake Greenway, as of the census of 2010, there were 9,052 people,3,974 households, and 2,444 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,165.0 inhabitants per square mile, there were 4,379 housing units at an average density of 1,531.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 95. 8% White,0. 9% African American,0. 3% Native American,1. 3% Asian,0. 4% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 8% of the population
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Osseo, Minnesota
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Osseo is a small city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The city resides on 472 acres and it is bordered by the cities of Brooklyn Park and Maple Grove. According to Osseos Community Profile compiled by the Metropolitan Council the population in the year 2015 was 2,656 persons in 1262 households, there are three main transportation routes in the city. Jefferson Highway runs straight north/south through the city and in the stretch is named Central Avenue. U. S. Highway 169 lines the east boundary, Bottineau Boulevard runs north west through the city. Osseo incorporated in 1875 as a village and became a Statutory City in 1972, the City Council is composed of a Mayor and four councilors. City Departments are Economic Development, Planning, Administration, Community Development, Fire, Parks/recreation, Police, the Osseo Library is located in the city hall building and is a branch of the Hennepin County Library System. The city publishes a newsletter, Osseo Outlook, and co-publishes an annual resident guide with the city of Maple Grove. City facilities include a community center, the city is a member of North Hennepin Area Chamber of Commerce. Schools within the city limits are Osseo Junior High School and Osseo Senior High School, Osseo and surrounding communities are served free public education from primary level to secondary level by the Osseo Area School District 279. The school district also provides public education for the following areas, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Maple Grove, Plymouth, Corcoran, Dayton. The Districts superintendent is Kate Maguire, as of the census of 2010, there were 2,430 people,1,128 households, and 575 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,240.0 inhabitants per square mile, there were 1,217 housing units at an average density of 1,622.7 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 90. 3% White,4. 2% African American,0. 5% Native American,1. 4% Asian,1. 7% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 6% of the population. 42. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 18. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.06 and the average family size was 2.82. The median age in the city was 46.1 years. 16. 9% of residents were under the age of 18,7. 9% were between the ages of 18 and 24,23. 8% were from 25 to 44,27. 7% were from 45 to 64, and 23. 7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 46. 0% male and 54. 0% female, there are multiple social clubs and ongoing activites in Osseo
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Plymouth, Minnesota
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Plymouth is the seventh largest city in the U. S. state of Minnesota.52 million residents. The population was 70,576 at the 2010 Census, once named for Medicine Lake, the citys name was chosen by Hennepin County Commissioners during the countys inception. Plymouths history can be traced back to the period around 1400 to 1500 AD. The original inhabitants were the Dakota and their encampment was at the north end of Medicine Lake. The name Medicine Lake is derived from the Dakota word Mdewakanton, the Dakota named the lake after a warrior overturned his canoe and his body was never recovered. Antoine LeCounte, a guide and explorer, was the first settler to this area and he arrived in 1848, but did not settle until 1852. He carried mail from the Red River country to points south, LeCounte built the first cabin at what is now East Medicine Lake Boulevard at 29th Avenue North. Plymouths beginning as a town occurred in 1855 on the northwest shores of what is now known as Parkers Lake, a gristmill and other structures were built in the area. In the spring of 1857, when Parkers Lake flooded, the mill was taken down, as new settlers arrived in the area, they decided to organize. The Hennepin County Board of Commissioners named the new settlement Plymouth, on April 19,1858, a group of townspeople met at the home of Francis Day to open elections for town offices. On May 11,1858, the group voted to change the name to Medicine Lake. This was used once at the meeting, but for reasons. During the Dakota War of 1862 between white settlers and the Dakota at Fort Ridgely, near New Ulm, the settlers of Plymouth formed a militia, when the Civil War started, Plymouth paid its volunteers $25 to enlist. At about this time, Plymouths growth began to take on a new look, Schools and churches were built and a post office was located in Plymouth. By 1863, hotels were being built, more changes occurred after the Civil War. By 1880, Plymouth boasted a population of 1,074, farming became the trade of most settlers. Roads were built across Plymouth, making access to other towns possible, Medicine Lake had become a major tourist attraction and resorts were built around its shores. As the character of the community evolved, so did local government, Plymouth incorporated as a village on May 18,1955
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Richfield, Minnesota
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Richfield is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. Best Buy, the U. S. s largest electronics retailer, has its headquarters in Richfield, the population was 35,228 at the 2010 census. The beginnings of Richfield date back to the 1850s, when it was still a farming community. Close to Minneapolis and Fort Snelling, it was on the edge of a growing and expanding city with business, one of the first settlers was Riley Bartholomew, a former General in the Ohio Militia who became a Richfield Justice of the Peace and a Minnesota State Senator. Bartholomew built a house on the east shore of Wood Lake in 1852, today, the house and site are maintained by the Richfield Historical Society. On May 11,1858, as Congress was admitting Minnesota into the Union and that same year Richfield was named for the fertile farm land it encompassed. By 1879, the communitys first town hall was constructed, early residents were German, Irish and families from the New England area. These residents were joined by immigrants from Sweden, Norway. It was not until 1908 that Richfield became a village, from 1908 until 1950, Richfields local government consisted of a President, three trustees, and a clerk. On November 7,1950, residents voted for a city form of government, meaning the city had a Mayor, four council members. This is still the form of government used today, Richfields first Mayor was Clarence Christian, who began serving in 1951, but served as President under the old format dating back to 1948. By the late 1940s, the population started increasing rapidly as farmland was sold to developers who were building homes for veterans returning from World War II. In 1955, the Richfield Chamber of Commerce was formed and has been involved in the development, as well as the redevelopment. The first half of the 20th century also saw the boundaries of Richfield change, three annexations by Minneapolis brought the village to 62nd Street, its present north boundary. In 1886, St. Louis Park formed a separate community followed by Edina in 1888, in 1905, a section of the east to 34th Avenue was requisitioned by Fort Snelling. In 1941, another section of East Richfield went to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, over the years, populations of all nearby communities increased and after World War II, Richfield flourished with commuters to Twin Cities jobs. Today, Richfield has a population of about 35,000 residents who live within seven miles of neighborhoods, parks. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 7.01 square miles
