View of the east side of the Junior High School in Stillwater, Minnesota. The building has since been demolished to make room for the Veteran's Memorial.
Glenwood High School main entrance and auditorium was part of the 1936 expansion of the high school designed by Nairne W. Fisher. This photograph from the late 1970s shows replacement windows.
Initially a one-room school, this became the Lebanon Minnesota (now Apple Valley Minnesota) Township Hall located at the Intersection of County Road 42 and Pilot Knob Road. The building was moved to the Dakota City Heritage Village at the Dakota County Fair Grounds, Farmington Minnesota. Del Stelling worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer, covering Savage, Burnsville, Eagan and other areas of Dakota County, Minnesota from 1959 - 1984.
William Byrne Elementary School, 11608 River Hills Drive, Burnsville Minnesota opened in 1967. Burnsville, which was originally spelled Byrnesville, was named for the Byrne family.
The gas station, which became known as Mr. B's Car Wash, and the Metcalf Junior High School at the corner of Highway 13 and County Road 30 in Burnsville.
This image shows a view of the east and north sides of the new St. Peter High School in 1958. This postcard negative, marked 568, has been converted to a digital positive image.
Portrait of of George Stephenson, long time school custodian, standing in front of the Okabena school. Stephenson worked there for over 40 years starting in 1917.
West Duluth; Denfeld high school Forty-Fourth Avenue west; school was built in 1925; aerial view; football field and bleachers; houses; business district; snow; streets
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
This image shows the east entrance and the north side of the St. Peter High School, which was located on the southwestern corner of the intersection of Fifth and Nassau Streets, facing Fifth. Later used as a Community Center, it was destroyed by the March 1998 tornado. This postcard negative, marked 4119, has been converted to a digital positive image.
Pine River School showing the 1920, $75,000 addition on the front of the 1912 school building located on the north side of Jefferson Avenue between Second and Third streets.
Young female students are standing in front of Mott Hall and the Power Plant building. They are from Pollard Hall, which was a co-educational dormitory. Names written on the back of the photo read: "Hauwiller, Weisenhaus, E. Miers, Skari, Weeks, Hanson Sophie, Rockman, Clark, DeVries, G. Richie, Cook, Kniefel, Simonson, V. Richie, and Magnuson." The student in the front row on the right end is Virginia Richie (later Ricci), and the student in the front row, third from the right, is her sister Gloria Richie.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
The school hospital of the Minnesota School for the Deaf in Faribault, Minnesota, was originally called the Infirmary. It was constructed in 1894, and was the only building on campus designed by the deaf architect, Olof Hanson. The infirmary was previously in the North Wing of Mott Hall, but it was moved to an isolated location for health safety reasons. It provided separate wards for ordinary and contagious patients. It was razed in the summer of 1973.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Central Hillside; Washington Junior High School was built in 1911; 305 Lake Avenue North; brick building; trees; cars; bushes; street lights; houses; fence
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Staff and students are assembled in front of Tate Hall. The male students are in military uniforms. The student sitting on the ground in the first row, fifth from the left, is John Mathews. The student sitting in the second row on the left end is Frank Turk. The man standing in the seventh row on the left end is Don Padden. The man standing in the fifth row, fifteenth from the left, is Norman Oja. The man sitting with his daughter on his lap in the center of the third row is Superintendent Leonard M. Elstad. Sitting to the right of Superintendent Elstad are Mr. Farrar, Mildred Duggan, Lloyd Ambrosen, Clarence Sommer, Carl Smith, unknown woman, Elizabeth Heine, Ms. Kleiner, Lewis Backstrom, Fern Hatfield, Paul Koring, Mr. Klement, Mr. Cook, unknown woman, Ms. Sauser, unknown woman, Ms. Fink, unknown woman, Opal Coffman, and Clara Flom. Sitting to the left of Superintendent Elstad are Josephine Quinn, Edith Elstad, unknown man, Chester Dobson, Hannah Meyer, Elizabeth Sommer, Herbert Sellner, Edwin Johnson, Victor R. Spence, Byron B. Burnes, Wesley Lauritsen, Harriet Harrell, Elizabeth Petteys, unknown woman, Mrs. Carl Smith, Ms. Myklebust, Ms. Oaks, Mary Bowen, Ms. Towler, Martha Peterson, Elizabeth Day, Muriel Young, unknown woman, and Frank Kohlroser.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Exterior view of the Lincoln School in St. Peter that was built to replace an earlier school of the same name on the same site. Both schools faced south along Chestnut Street, between Third and Fourth Streets.
Exterior view of the John Ireland School in St. Peter, which was located between Myrtle and Walnut Streets, facing Fifth Street, until it was demolished as a result of the March 1998 tornado. The school served children who attended the Church of St. Peter.
Harold H. Crawford designed this building for Folwell School in Rochester, Minnesota. The architectural drawing shows the elevations and details of the school building.
Staff and students are assembled in front of Tate Hall. The male students are in military uniforms. The man in a dark suit and tie sitting in the third row on the right end is Louis C. Tuck. The man sitting in the third row, fourth from the left end, is Louis Albert Roth. Sitting to the right of Louis Albert Roth are one unknown man, Victor R. Spence, Wesley Lauritsen, Peter N. Peterson, three unknown people, Thilda P. Smith, Dr. James L. Smith, Edith Stevenson, and Superintendent Elwood A. Stevenson.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
West Duluth; Denfeld High school; Ely elementary school; Ely Central Avenue and Sixth street; Denfeld school was built in 1925-26 and named for Robert E. Denfeld Duluth's superintendent of schools for 33 years;In fall of 1918 Seventh and Eighth grade boys of Irving, Ely, Fairmont and Longfellow schools were permitted to enter Denfeld because grade schools were becoming crowded; brick buildings; trees; flag pole; spring
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The school hospital was originally called the Infirmary. It was constructed in 1894, and was the only building on campus designed by the deaf architect, Olof Hanson. The infirmary was previously in the North Wing of Mott Hall, but it was moved to an isolated location for health safety reasons. It provided separate wards for ordinary and contagious patients. It was razed in the summer of 1973.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
The school hospital of the Minnesota School for the Deaf in Faribault, Minnesota, was originally called the Infirmary. It was constructed in 1894, and was the only building on campus designed by the deaf architect, Olof Hanson. The infirmary was previously in the North Wing of Mott Hall, but it was moved to an isolated location for health safety reasons. It provided separate wards for ordinary and contagious patients. It was razed in the summer of 1973.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Harold H. Crawford designed this building for Central School in Rochester, Minnesota. The architectural drawing was a presentation drawing for a bond referendum.
Attendees are gathered in Minnehaha Park. The label on the photo reads: "De Le' Pee Picnic Minnehaha Falls Sept. 2, 1923." In the early 1920's, Catholic deaf people in the Twin Cities organized the De L'Epee Society. This organization was named after Abbe Charles de L'Epee, who was a pioneer in deaf education in France. The man holding a hat and standing third from the left end, is Wesley Lauritsen. The man standing on the right end is Anton Schroeder. The black man standing in back, to the left of center, is Clarence Monroe. The man sitting in the center of the second row, to the left of a woman with a hat in her lap, is Jay Cooke Howard. The second person sitting to the right of Jay Cooke Howard is Dr. James L. Smith. The man sitting on the ground in the first row, with a dog in front of him, is Victor R. Spence.
Staff and students are assembled in front of the north wing of Tate Hall. The male students are in military uniforms. The man with a hat and a white beard sitting in the center of the second row is Superintendent James N. Tate. The man standing in the second row, to the left of Superintendent Tate, is Dr. James L. Smith. The woman seated in front of Dr. James L. Smith is Thilda P. Smith. Standing behind Dr. James L. Smith is Louis Albert Roth. Standing behind Louis Albert Roth is Peter N. Peterson. The man standing in the third row, to the right of Superintendent Tate, is John Schwirtz. The seventh person sitting to the right of Superintendent Tate (in the same row) is Wesley Lauritsen. The man with a white beard standing behind and just to the left of Wesley Lauristen is Louis C. Tuck. The man standing in the back row on the left end is Edward Frechette.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Harold H. Crawford designed this building for the Eyota School. The architectural rendering shows exterior details, elevation of the cupola, and other details.
The first school in New Brighton was located on Fifth Avenue west of Cleveland Avenue. Originally called District #18, It opened in 1890 and closed in 1939, when a new New Brighton School opened. Students and staff pose outside the school building on a winter day.
An early view of the Pine River School showing 1920, $75,000 addition on the front of the 1912 school building located on the north side of Jefferson Avenue between Second and Third streets.
Hunter's Park; Washburn School at 201 West St. Andrews Street was built in 1905 with additions in 1926 and 1957; Hunter's Park was named for John Hunter and Ronald Hunter; Glen Avon is named for the glens of Scotland and the river Avon of England by a Scottish man Angus Roderick Macfarlane who married Catharine Hunter; Flemish architecture; cupola; flagpole; brick building
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Central Hillside; Emerson School 1028 West Third Street; this 12 room brick building by architect A. F. Rudolph was built in 1891; stone foundation; adults; children; power lines; telephone poles; trees; sidewalk; houses
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections