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1. Aerial View of the Mounds at the Twin Cities Arsenal, now in present-day Arden Hills, Minnesota

Creator:
New Brighton Bulletin
Date Created:
1945?
Description:
The Mounds' picturesque hills gave Mounds View Township and later the school district, high school and village their names. For many years a play area for youth, hikers, picnickers, and skiers, the Mounds were taken out of the public and private domain by the Army for the Twin Cities Arsenal in 1941 and has since been carved by the mining of its extremely high grade of sand and gravel. Pictured here is the excavation of the Arsenal Sand and Gravel Company which had produced 750,000 tons of sand and gravel per year. The buildings in the upper right perimeter of the photo are ammunition sheds from the Arsenal. Many area residents found employment at the Arsenal or gravel company.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Aerial view taken from south village limits of New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1927
Description:
Aerial view from the south village limits of New Brighton was taken by MacGillis & Gibbs Company, a pole yard company, which is seen in the lower half of the photo. Notable buildings include the First Congregational Church, New Brighton Elementary School, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, and the New Brighton Village Hall.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

3. Animal capacity at the stockyards, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1918
Description:
The stockyard industry was a million dollar operation at the turn of the century. The stockyards, completed in September, 1889, could accommodate 5000 cattle, 10,000 hogs, 20,000 sheep, and 500 horses on its 30 acres. Cattle pens are shown.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

4. Beisswenger and Johnson Grocery Store, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1924
Description:
The Beisswenger and Johnson Grocery was located in the former Transit Hotel building. Lawrence Johnson, left, with his brother-in-law, Adoph Beisswenger, and their wives, Mable Beisswenger, center, and Rose Johnson, right, owned the store. Later the store moved across the street to the Treat Building, where it was in business until the 1960s.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. Beisswenger and Johnson Grocery Store, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1927
Description:
Ed and Fred Beisswenger in the Beisswenger and Johnson Grocery Store in 1927. Later the store moved across the street to the Treat Building, where it was in business until the 1960s.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. Bell Lumber and Pole Company perforator, New Brighton, Minnesota

Creator:
Bureau of Engineering, Minneapolis
Date Created:
1920?
Description:
Bell Lumber and Pole Company was formed in 1919 to treat telephone poles and lumber. This machine is called a perforator which perforates the lumber and telephone poles to allow the preserving chemicals to penetrate.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

7. Bell Lumber and Pole workers, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1919
Description:
Bell Lumber and Pole Company was formed in 1919 to treat telephone poles and lumber. The pole yards were very important to the employment and economy of New Brighton. All of the heavy work was done by horses and pole yard workers in the early years.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. Bell Lumber and Pole Yards, New Brighton, Minnesota

Creator:
Beisell, Hobert
Date Created:
1930
Description:
Bell Lumber and Pole Yards began business in 1919 treating telephone poles and lumber. The company hired many local men and is still in business today. In mid-1980s, after being declared a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bell began the process of cleaning up the hazardous chemicals on its property, spending over $10 million to do so and also to rebuild the plant to treat poles and lumber using environmentally clean processes. This panorama view shows the pole treating plant and the large telephone poles treated in the process.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Panoramas

9. Bell Lumber and Pole Yards, New Brighton, Minnesota

Creator:
Beisell, Hobert
Date Created:
1930
Description:
Bell Lumber and Pole Yards began business in 1919, treating telephone poles and lumber. The company hired many local men and is still in business today. In mid-1980s, after being declared a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bell began the process of cleaning up the hazardous chemicals on its property, spending over $10 million to do so and also to rebuild the plant to treat poles and lumber using environmentally clean processes. This panorama photo shows the pole treating plant and the large telephone poles treated in the process.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Panoramas

10. Bell Lumber and Pole Yards, New Brighton, Minnesota

Creator:
Beisell, Hobert
Date Created:
1930
Description:
Bell Lumber and Pole Yards began business in 1919, treating telephone poles and lumber. The company hired many local men and is still in business today. In mid-1980s, after being declared a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bell began the process of cleaning up the hazardous chemicals on its property, spending over $10 million to do so and also to rebuild the plant to treat poles and lumber using environmentally clean processes. This panorama photo shows the pole treating plant and the large telephone poles treated in the process.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Panoramas

11. Bell Lumber Company fire, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1923
Description:
Bell Lumber and Pole Company was formed in 1919 to treat telephone poles and lumber. The company hired many local men. A fire in 1923 is destroyed the complex, but the company rebuilt and is still in business today.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Belt Line Brick Company and employees, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1918
Description:
The Belt Line Brick Company began about 1910 and operated on a 24 hours-per-day basis employing many New Brighton men. It was located east of present-day Sunnyside School. Its operation slowed up in post-World War II years as the plant became outmoded. It was dismantled in 1962.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. Belt Line Brick Company employees, New Brighton, Minnesota

Creator:
Beisell, Hobert
Date Created:
1918
Description:
The Belt Line Brick Company operated a plant in New Brighton beginning in 1910. They ran the business on a 24 hours-per-day basis. Its operation slowed up in post-World War II years as the plant became outmoded. It was dismantled in 1961. The brick yard employed many New Brighton men.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. Belt Line Brick Company, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1930?
Description:
The Belt Line Brick Company began about 1910 and operated on a 24 hours-per-day schedule. It employed many local men. Its operation slowed down in the post-World War II years as the plant became outmoded. It was razed in 1961. John Zellie and Joe Hillyard, employees, others unidentified.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Burlington Route Black Hawk railroad car with Lorado Taft, sculptor, Governor Theodore Christianson, and F. E. Williamson, President, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1929
Description:
Burlington Route Black Hawk railroad car with Lorado Taft, sculptor, Governor Theodore Christianson, and F. E. Williamson, President, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. Charles Anderson's barber shop, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1891
Description:
The first barbershop in New Brighton was run by Charles Anderson in 1891 to serve the stockyard workers.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Cota Beauty Shop in New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1945
Description:
Alvena Cota's Beauty Shop opened in 1945 and operated into the 1980s. Her shop was located first on the south side of Tenth Street and later moved to Old Highway 8, behind the Skelley Station.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. Devine Hotel, also called the Brighton Hotel and Long Lake House, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1908
Description:
The Devine Hotel, also called Brighton Hotel and Long Lake House, in New Brighton was located along Front Street and Sixth Avenue in New Brighton during the stockyards heyday. It was built by William Devine I. There were five hotels in downtown New Brighton, all catering to the stockyard staff and workers. The hotel also contained a saloon. On the far right is the spire of the old Town Hall located on 5th Avenue.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Exchange Hotel (also known as the Cattlemen's Hotel), New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900
Description:
Mounted cattlemen in front of the opulent Exchange Hotel in 1900. Built to accommodate 159 guests, the hotel, first called the Cattlemen's Hotel, was constructed at a cost of $30,000. This building housed a hotel, dining room, bank, land company, railroad offices, stock commission offices, telegraph office, newspaper presses, barber shop, saloon, and gaming rooms. It eventually became a canning factory and lastly Beisswenger's Hardware. The building was razed in October, 1988.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. F. M. Searles and family, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1923
Description:
Prominent local businessman Franklin M. Searles, owner of F. M. Searles Lumber, a firm that also served as the Post Office, fuel store, and feed store in New Brighton. Pictured, far right, with children Monna, DeWitt, Isola, Coy, and wife Sadie Alice Sackett Searles. Searles also served on the Village Council and as a delegate to various Republican conventions.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. Franklin Searles family, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1923
Description:
Children of Franklin Searles, New Brighton prominent businessman, are shown: son Coy Searles; daughter Marnie Searles; friend E. Lawrence Haglund; daughter Maude Searles
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. Frank Zamor's Ice Cream Parlor, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1925
Description:
Among the retail establishments in New Brighton in the 1920s was Frank Zamor's Ice Cream Parlor with Rosina Boryczka working behind the counter in 1925.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

23. Grain Exchange Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1930?
Description:
Grain Exchange Hotel, interior view, with elevator operator Tom Mulcahy, Sr.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

24. Harris Brothers Forge and Rolling Mill, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1891
Description:
Harris Brothers Forge and Rolling Mill began in the Irondale area in 1891. This mill turned bundles of scrap iron into large balls which were made into various shapes and forms. Seventy-five company homes were built for workers and their families near the mill. Ruinous fires brought the demise of the iron foundry in 1893.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Hudoba Building, New Brighton, Minnesota

Date Created:
1923
Description:
The Hudoba Building, built by Alexander Hudoba, served as a general store, saloon, living quarters, and hotel, with the basement level used for farm animals. Alexander Hudoba, and sons, Walter, Alex, and Leonard Hudoba stand outside the building.
Contributing Institution:
New Brighton Area Historical Society
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs
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