Once the site of Enger & Olson Furniture, the building, owned by RBI Group LLC in the Lincoln Park Craft District, received an estimated $7 million in restorations.
From 1965-1973, the public could step into a safety cage and remain on the Lift Bridge as it rose. Local children would reach out and drop pennies into freighters' smokestacks.
CHISHOLM- If you think history is boring, pay a visit to the new temporary exhibit at the Minnesota Discovery Center (MDC) which examines a particularly colorful period of Iron Range history. …
"Never Dry" takes a multifaceted look at how northern Minnesota bootlegged its way through the 1920s. An enthusiastic crowd turned out last week to take a first look at the new exhibit.
Backus Bar in Virginia, 1893. Photos courtesy of the Minnesota Discovery Center. CHISHOLM – A new temporary exhibit at the Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm will open on Thursday, December 8. The exhibit, titled "Never Dry: The Rise of Prohibition on the Iron Range,” explores the impacts of the 18th Amendment on Minnesota’s Iron Range.