City of Minneapolis Announces Historic Resources Survey

Brian Schaffer, Senior City Planner for the City of Minneapolis, recently announced the schedule of locations, dates and times for public meetings to introduce the Historic Resources Survey project.

The purpose of the survey is to:

- Identify unknown historic properties.
- Recommend properties for further study.
- Make informed decisions about the significance and protection of historic resources.
- Develop goals and strategies for preservation as well as neighborhood planning.

The city is divided into several Survey Areas, and the Mill District is part of the Central Core Survey.   The meeting for our neighborhood will be held Thursday, February 17, from 6:00pm-7:30pm at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church.

Residents can also tell the City what's historical in their neighborhoods by completing an online survey.

The City was first surveyed for historic resources in the 1970s, and many of todays designated landmarks and historic districts are a result of the original survey.  Since 2001, CPED has conducted a re-survey of historic resources in Minneapolis that has been funded by grants from the Minnesota Historical Society and matched by City dollars. The City has undertaken the re-survey because the aging of properties, changing attitudes about which types of historic resources need to be identified, e.g. historic landscapes, cultural and ethnic group resources. The survey will help achieve the Citys goal of documenting historic resources throughout the entire city over a ten-year period, which is scheduled for completion in 2011.