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.
The Armistice Day Blizzard of November 11, 1940, hit New Brighton hard. On the day following the blizzard, Phil Hadock and Sid Weber stand behind a big drift next to Butch Schmalzbauer's Jack Sprat Food Store to talk about the weather. Many New Brightonites took stranded travelers into their homes overnight.
The Armistice Day Blizzard of November 11, 1940, found many residents of New Brighton providing food and shelter for storm victims. Many cars were stranded and travelers rescued by New Brighton residents during the fierce storm.
Group portrait of five basketball players. Back row: Paul Doeltz, Class of 1899; Robert Stoddart, Academy. Front row: P.P. Brush, 1901; Roy W. Smits, 1900; Floyd Brown, Academy.
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.
Brownie Girl Scouts of White Bear Lake on the steps of a school holding United States flag. Older girls are Mary Greengard, acting 2nd Lt. and Ruth Janzen, Lt..
Contributing Institution:
Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys
Chiropractic faculty member Curt Rapp helps a chiropractic student read x-rays on an illuminator on the St. Paul campus. In 1983, to accommodate growth in student population and programs, the college moved to its current location in Bloomington, Minnesota. In 1999, Northwestern College of Chiropractic was renamed Northwestern Health Sciences University to reflect its addition of programs in other alternative medicine fields.
Two chiropractic students comparing a plastic arm bone to skeleton diagrams hanging on the wall in a classroom on the St. Paul campus. In 1983, to accommodate growth in student population and programs, the college moved to its current location in Bloomington, Minnesota. In 1999, Northwestern College of Chiropractic was renamed Northwestern Health Sciences University to reflect its addition of programs in other alternative medicine fields.
A chiropractor is using an electric massager to give a back massage to a patient on the St. Paul campus. In 1983, to accommodate growth in student population and programs, the college moved to its current location in Bloomington, Minnesota. In 1999, Northwestern College of Chiropractic was renamed Northwestern Health Sciences University to reflect its addition of programs in other alternative medicine fields.
View of the facade and marquee of the Dale Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota. Liebenberg and Kaplan, Architects (1919-1969), were noted for designing more than 200 motion picture theatres in the Upper Midwest, many of the early ones featuring an art deco style.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives
View of the entrance lobby of the Dale Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota. Liebenberg and Kaplan, Architects (1919-1969), were noted for designing more than 200 motion picture theatres in the Upper Midwest, many of the early ones featuring an art deco style.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives
The downtown St. Paul skyline can be seen from Dayton's Bluff, documenting the improvements made to the St. Paul harbor and Upper Mississippi river banks in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the mid-1930s.
Dredges operate below the federal barge terminal in St. Paul, Minnesota. This photograph documents dredging and other improvements made to the St. Paul harbor and Upper Mississippi River in and around the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, in the mid-1930s. Work on the project was completed in 1936.
View of the lobby of the Faust Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota. Liebenberg and Kaplan, Architects (1919-1969), were noted for designing more than 200 motion picture theatres in the Upper Midwest, many of the early ones featuring an art deco style.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives
View of the hallway of the Faust Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota. Liebenberg and Kaplan, Architects (1919-1969), were noted for designing more than 200 motion picture theatres in the Upper Midwest, many of the early ones featuring an art deco style.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives
View of the hallway of the Faust Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota. Liebenberg and Kaplan, Architects (1919-1969), were noted for designing more than 200 motion picture theatres in the Upper Midwest, many of the early ones featuring an art deco style.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives
View of the lobby of the Faust Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota. Liebenberg and Kaplan, Architects (1919-1969), were noted for designing more than 200 motion picture theatres in the Upper Midwest, many of the early ones featuring an art deco style.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives
Members of the White Bear Fire Department posed with horses and pumper wagon in front of the original fire station garage at the northwest corner of Second Street and Clark Avenue.
The first church in New Brighton was the First Congregational Church of New Brighton, incorporated on September 5, 1890. This church was built in 1892 at a cost of $1500. It was located on the west side of Fifth Avenue and Sixth Street.
A photograph of the first meeting for the Minnesota Potato Growers held in St. Paul Minnesota on August 10, 1919. The man marked with the red "x" is J. Oscar Serline of Kanabec County.
Thori, Alban & Fisher, Architects (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1909
Description:
An architectural rendering of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Paul, located at Portland Ave. and Victoria St. The cornerstone was laid October 15, 1907. Built in the Classic Greek Style the dedication booklet says, "Facing Holly Avenue in a situation ideal to show its classic and simple architecture, the massive columns of the portico give character and attract attention." The booklet goes on to say, "The main auditorium has eight hundred and fifty sittings." It housed an organ built by the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, Connecticut costing $7600.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Tommy Kowaksi was one of New Brighton's first policeman, but also served as the town street sweeper. This photo was taken on present day Fifth Avenue, facing north, with the Hudoba Building and the Transit House Hotel in the background.
Children of Franklin Searles, New Brighton prominent businessman, are shown: son Coy Searles; daughter Marnie Searles; friend E. Lawrence Haglund; daughter Maude Searles
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.
Girl Scouts in uniform are baking a cake to celebrate the 25th birthday of Girl Scouts. Pictured Mary Rothchild, Harriet Stringer (daughter of Mrs. Philip Stringer, member of St. Paul's first Girl Scout troop 1917) and Jeanette Johnston.
Contributing Institution:
Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys
Twelve girls use the library at the St. Paul Girls' Home (orphanage), 933 Carroll Ave., St. Paul. An unidentified Sister of St. Joseph helps two of the students.
Female studentss standing in front of Old Main, as seen from inside the entryway of Old Main. Wallace Hall can be seen in the background. The caption on the back reads, "Macalester College picnic 1910."
Formal Portrait of Harriet Coxe Fillebrown on her 50th wedding anniversary with Jonas Walter Fillebrown, White Bear, Minnesota. Harriet is wearing her wedding gown.
Long Lake water had a reputation for its clean quality and the ice-making industry flourished for over sixth years. A conveyer carries the ice up from the water to a platform from where it is loaded on sleighs at the Peoples Coal and Ice Company. Commercial ice houses dating back to the early 1890s were located on the north, east, and southwestern shores of the lake. They flourished until the 1950s when modernized refrigeration made them virtually extinct.
Chiropractor gives a spinal adjustment to a little patient on the St. Paul campus. In 1983, to accommodate growth in student population and programs, the college moved to its current location in Bloomington, Minnesota. In 1999, Northwestern College of Chiropractic was renamed Northwestern Health Sciences University to reflect its addition of programs in other alternative medicine fields.
Lucille Bishop holding horse Genevieve at the St. Paul Campus. The horse was part of a brucellosis research project. Behind Bishop is the east side of the University's Dairy Barn building.
Luther Seminary moved to this facility on Hamline Avenue in St. Paul in 1899 and remained there until its 1917 merger with Red Wing Seminary and the United Church Seminary at the latter's campus in the St. Anthony Park neighborhood of St. Paul. This building is on the corner of Hamline Avenue and Capitol Avenue. Back of photograph reads: Rev. O.E. Brandt, Luther Seminary, Capitol & Hamline.
MacGillis & Gibbs Company employees with their horses as they transport telephone poles. The company specialized in the treatment, production and distribution of telephone poles from 1919 and employed many New Brighton men. The firm treated telephone poles and lumber with chemicals to preserve the wood, which ultimately contaminated the soil and made its way into groundwater. In 1984 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared both MacGillis & Gibbs Company site and an adjacent pole company, Bell Lumber and Pole, as a Superfund site. The cleanup continued until 1993.
A large group photograph of the Minnesota County Commissioners and Auditors at the Twin City Babcock Conference of April 8 and April 9, 1920. In the second row beginning at the sixth person is Alfred Sanders, J. Oscar Serline, Ed Peterson and W. Monson.
Demonstration booth at the 1956 Minnesota State Fair (probably in the Creative Activities Building). The booth is staffed by Mrs. Cory and an unidentified Guild member. They are booth weaving on floor looms. Weaving samples are on display in the booth.
Demonstration booth at the 1956 Minnesota State Fair (probably in the Creative Activities Building). A guild member is weaving on a floor loom. Weaving samples and a spinning wheel are on display.
The outlet for the railroad drain is visible in this photograph of rip rap, part of the St. Paul harbor project of the mid-1930s. Improvements to the harbor and Upper Mississippi River included dredging and sewer work. The project was completed in 1936.
The outlet for the railroad drain is visible in this photograph of rip rap, part of the St. Paul harbor project of the mid-1930s. Improvements to the harbor and Upper Mississippi River included dredging and sewer work. The project was completed in 1936.
Peoples Coal and Ice Company had five ice houses on the east side of Long Lake which first served the stockyards industry and later provided a busy commercial ice industry for some 60 years in New Brighton. The ice was stored in well-insulated ice houses and covered with sawdust, which helped to insulate the ice and keep the blocks from sticking together. When needed, the 20 x 32-inch blocks were loaded into railroad cars, which held about 140 blocks per car. Any left-over ice went toward filling many a villager's own icehouse.
Sadie and Franklin M. Searles, prominent New Brighton businessman, in front of their 1923 vehicle with their grandchildren, Helen Searles and Donald D. Searles.
Portraits of ten Minnesota State Officers, incorporated into a six-pointed star: Governor Ramsey; Lt. Gov Donnelly; Secretary Baker; Treasurer Scheffer; Dept of Instruction Neill; Auditor Kraft; Atty General Cole; Statistician Wheelock; Adjt General Acker; and State Printer Van Vorhes.
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1921-1935 (District 39). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=14636
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1931-1936 (District 40). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=12230
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1905-1910 (District 37). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=14591
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1903-1904 (District 36); House 1907-1908 (District 36). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=15130
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1935-1936 (District 37); House 1939-1954 (District 37). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=12989
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1915-1918 (District 38); Senate 1935-1958 (District 38). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=13607
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1937-1956 (District 42); Senate 1959-1962 (District 42); Senate 1963-1966 (District 43). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=10882
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1979-1982 (District 45A); House 1983-1992 (District 54A). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=10679
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1945-1950 (District 39). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=13937
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1941-1946 (District 37); Senate 1947-1950 (District 37). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=14315
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1979-1982 (District 67A); House 1983-1984 (District 65B). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=10569
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1907-1908 (District 37). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=14362
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1939-1950 (District 41). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=13945
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1915-1920 (District 42). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=14989
Served in the Minnesota Legislature: House 1913-1914 (District 36); House 1915-1918 (District 40). For biographical information, see the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library database at: http://www.leg.mn/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=13993