by ichs_contributor | Aug 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
by ichs_contributor | Aug 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Oliver Mining District Office 200 Cole Ave., Coleraine In 1904, U.S. Steel (Parent Corporation to Oliver Mining) began plans to expand its Mesabi operation from the iron-rich eastern and central regions to the west, where the ore was of a lower grade. John...
by ichs_contributor | Aug 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Methodist Episcopal Church 501 Cole Ave., Coleraine When it was built in 1908-09, Coleraine Methodist housed not only a church but a Young Men’s Christian Assn., which included a gymnasium, showers, office, reading room, and parlor. It was meant, in...
by ichs_contributor | Aug 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Central School 4th & Pokegama Ave., Grand Rapids Central School was built in 1895, when Grand Rapids was hitting its peak as a logging town. It was the village’s dominant structure, focal point for the community, and a fine example of Richardsonian...
by ichs_contributor | Aug 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Coleraine Carnegie Library 203 Cole Ave., Coleraine This is the “best preserved” of Minnesota’s Carnegie Libraries, according to a U.S. library historian. It was built in 1910 as part of the Oliver Mining Company’s plan for its “model community” of...
