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Park Elementary School
Minnesota has long prided itself on its education system and Moorhead was no exception. Park Elementary School, built in 1900, was the fifth in a series of six schools the school district of Moorhead, founded in 1873, built between 1874 and 1920 and is the only one that survives. The school is also the last remaining elementary school built prior to WWII before it was popular to build schools in a modern design tha
Read MoreOld Main- Concordia Campus
Old Main was built to house the growing size of Concordia’s student body that over grew the walls of Bishop Whipple and Academy Hall. It was used as a place for classrooms, a library, gymnasium, auditorium, and offices. The president at the time was Bogstad, and he saw the creation of the originally termed New Main. Bogstad recommended the building should cost $50,000 and be built to meet educational and recreational
Read MoreBergquist Cabin-Moorhead’s First Home
Bergquist Cabin in Moorhead, Minnesota is a small, 14’ x 20’ log cabin made with hand-hewn oak logs, the largest of which reaches one foot in height. Its original brick chimney and shingle roof is still intact, although the placement of its windows and doors has changed over the years as the needs of the cabin changed. It is located on a bend of the Red River, today on the edge of a park. What makes this cab
Read MorePeter Meehan and G.A. Saumweber
Four men were arrested in Moorhead by the federal prohibition agents Wednesday March, 15. The establishments that raided were, Peter Meehan, the soft drink parlor on 23 Fourth Street South, The Oxford club, 224 First Avenue South, Martin Redman Cigar Store, 11 Fourth Street North, and G. A. Saumweber barber shop, 15 Fourth Street South. No liquor was found at the Oxford club or the Redman establishment. The liquor wa
Read MoreJake Schumaker
Jake Schumaker will be given a preliminary hearing in charge of selling liquor to a youth who had told police in court that he had given the beverage to two Fargo minors a few days prior. Schumaker was arrested by police and then taken before Judge E.U. Wade. The youth was 16 years old would also be arraigned in police court. Fargo Police found one of the minors who was 15 years old around the back of a Broadway hote
Read MorePutnam Hall
Between 1886 and 1919 industrialist Andrew Carnegie donated more than $40 million dollars towards the construction of libraries in various communities all across America. This was the way many Americans were first able to gather information and be introduced to the creativity of reading. It is Carnegie who we have to thank for Putnam Hall. The idea to build Putnam Hall was proposed in 1903 with a simple letter. B. F.
Read MoreThe Empire Tavern
Greek immigrant Andrew Ginakes opened the Empire Café at 424 Broadway around 1932 to 1935. In 1936, the café became one of the first establishments in Fargo to apply for a liquor license. It became known as the Empire Liquor Store in 1946. Ginakes sold the Empire in 1947 to brothers Wilmet and Delvin Swanick. In 1964, the name was changed to the Empire Tavern. The tavern is still owned by the Swanick family today an
Read MoreLadd Hall
The first Chemistry classes on campus were held in the basement of College Hall, but with the continuing growth of the Chemistry department, it was clear a new space would be needed. In 1905 that need was fulfilled when the state legislature appropriated $50,000 for the construction of a new Chemistry building. The new building was built between Old Main and South Engineering and was open for use in 1906. After three
Read MoreO.E. Flaten
The Flaten family is from Norway. O.E. Flaten was born November 6, 1854 in Vanders Norway. He came to America at the age of seventeen. at the urging of his uncle, Ole Boe, who sent him $45 for his passage over the Atlantic. After five long weeks at sea, Flaten arrived in Quebec, Canada. From Quebec he traveled by water and stagecoach, to Northfield, Minnesota. Flaten stayed there for six years, working for the photog
Read MoreCarnegie Library and Urban Renewal
Of the many historic buildings torn down during the urban renewal process, one that stands out is the Carnegie Moorhead Public Library. The library was a one story Classical revival style building that was built in part to the Women’s Club of Moorhead, who persuaded the City Council in 1904 to establish a library fund and obtained a $12,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie for construction of the library.[1] Carn
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