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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-09-08 PACKET 06.B.Cottage Grove here Pride and Prp5?erity Meet TO: Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation FROM: John M. Burbank, Senior Planner DATE: September 4, 2020 RE: 10524 Kimbro Avenue - Nessel School Introduction During the course of this year the ACHP have been discussing the fate of the Nessel School located at 10524 Kimbro Avenue due to rumors of demolition. In July, the rumors were put to rest. Discussion The new owners of the property stopped into City Hall and were very interested to get information on the school because they confirmed that it was still standing on their property and they wanted to be informed good stewards of the historic structure. The attached information was shared with them. Recommendation Review and discuss possible registration on the City Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks. Local historian finds school from 1800s I SWC Bulletin 16 ? r Comprehignswe Den --M Care ' Acal historian fi By Judy Spooner on Oct 6, 2010 at 7:58 a.m. Dr. Tim Brook and the Smile for Life Team I from Page 1 of 4 CLICK- FjRAN `` APPOINT it :11 115 Several years ago local historian Bev Gross discovered something many people thought no longer existed, and she's been chronicling its history ever since. She found the Nessel School, built in 1869 on Kimbro Avenue in Cottage Grove. Gross was told by Kip Sundgaard, that there was an old school she should investigate. She and her husband, Bud, who shares most of her historical adventures, set out to find it several years ago. The duo photographed their find after trudging through snow and underbrush. http://www. swcbulletin. com/content/Iocal-historian-finds-school-1800s 1/4/2017 Local historian finds school from 1800s I SWC Bulletin Page 2 of 4 BF �/, NAtUo h, s bF.on '"erg: sted in local history as long as she can remember, said she recalls her parents talking about small schools in the area before District 833 consolidation closed them in the 1954. A member of the Cottage Grove Historic Preservation Commission and a charter member of the South Washington Heritage Society, Gross grew up in Old Cottage Grove and attended Cottage Grove School, a two -room school near her home that no longer exists. Cottage Grove Elementary, in District 31, was first located in 1851 in the home of James Norris on Lamar Avenue. He was one of the first Washington County and Cottage Grove residents, according to local history and Gross's research. Senior living facility Norris Square is named after him "Most of the early schools began in people's homes," Gross said in an interview at the Nessel School. In 1950, Gross graduated from eighth grade at Cottage Grove School, which closed the same year, and went to St. Paul Park High School. "My teacher was worried about us going to that school," she said. "I think she thought it would have too much of a 'big -city' influence on us." In Gross's research on the Nessel School, she found that it started in 1855 in the home of William Altenburg. In 1869, the school was built and named for Andrew Nessel, a member of the District 32 School Board who also donated the school's land. "He was a respected pioneer," Gross said. The Nessel School Record of Annual School Meetings chronicles the years from 1870 to 1875. In 1872, the winter session was four months long with 16 boys and 22 girls enrolled. The school was open in the summer for three months with 22 boys and 28 girls enrolled. The salary for the male teacher was $50, according to the record book for Langdon School. http://www. swcbulletin. com/content/Iocal-historian-finds-school-1800s 1/4/2017 Local historian finds school from 1800s I SWC Bulletin Page 3 of 4 In 1.901. Nc�-sel 1ch-al, �ocated on private land and not open to the public, closed and children were transported to Hastings schools in a covered wagon. Langdon School, which still exists in Cottage Grove south of the city's public works facilities, opened in 1923. Nessel School merged with Langdon when it opened and its history is contained in Langdon's records. The records were donated to the heritage society by the estate of Peter Thompson, whose parents attended Nessel School. The records are kept at St. Paul Park City Hall where the society meets on the second Saturday of the month in the DeForth Room. Thompson, who was active in the community and owned substantial land in Cottage Grove, has a park named after him. Peter Thompson Family Park is located in the Highland Hills Addition off of 65th Street. Some of the people who attended Nessel School include: Edie C. Whitbred, Herbert Hazelton, Irving Morey, Mrs. Charles Kemp, Dell Wilkins, Carrie Egan, Mrs. John McLain, Mrs. James McLaughlin, Mrs. Jake Simons, Lucy Morley, Charles Kemp, Laura Allen, Louis Nessel, John Kemp, Holland Morey, Lydia Tucker, Charles Daulton, Mrs. Charles Gilmore, Mrs. Charles Daulton and Charles Gilmore. i, r'.y s a 0 .� r Judy Spooner is the longest -serving staff writer at the South Washington County Bulletin. Spooner, who covers education and features in addition to writing a weekly column, has been with the newspaper for over 30 years. jspooner@swcbulletin.com (651) 459-7600 SPONSORED CONTENT How 2 Boston Grads Are Disrupting The Auto Insurance Industry By Provide -Savings Insurance Quotes http://www. swcbulletin. com/content/Iocal-historian-finds-school-1800s 1/4/2017 Local historian finds school from 1800s I SWC Bulletin Page 4 of 4 This small team of data scientists has made an algorithm that is turning a giant 19 billion dollar industry up -side -down. ADVERTISEMENT http://www. swcbulletin. com/content/Iocal-historian-finds-school-1800s 1/4/2017 STILLWATER, MINN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1899. ,c,c OUR COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SERFS. 94' DISTRICT No. 32 COTTAGE GROVE. r. The school house of district No. I house, situated about forty rods the school site. Kemp, Andrew Nessel, Robert WilkinsAEdw�arGilmare,ItC John 32 is located in the southeastern of Cottage Grbve, about two north oto present The school was carried on at that Morey, The more and William Mackintosh. miles Routheast of Langdon and time partly by contribution. of scholars were 16,of which Former teachers: AnnLavery, about five miles northwest of Hast- I number number 14 were iu the Primer. The J Josiah Thompson, Y , McHattie, Ings. Opinions differ as to the date of following year school was held in where Henry Briggs, Emma Mary J. Daulton, Lizzle Van Slyke, the organization of the district. On the board of county the John Inky house. near Henry Gil or 'Miss residencenow Davis Lydia Van SethFArn Fanny Rog ;. Q. May 3, 1853, commissioners grranted the petition standing, as teach For later Latischa Nackintosh. for tibeorganization of aer and ten her citi- fordistrict tb er. several was held in a carpenters op owneears d Laura B. WrightaBlanc et Staples, Alice J. Pringle and Edith Kemp. zof eas zeas the southeast quarter of by John Bassett, on what. is now Mrs. Burnsides's farm. Mics Kate The school house is of the typical Cottage Grove. The organization was probably effected by the Citi- Califf of Nininger was teacher fol- bySalyMiss Nixon, then order and has been tion.changed but menL sinceupilseCis efifteen. zens subsequent to this action of the as four years later, Vaned . Later s boos about Free books were provided for sev- eommissioners, Oct. 16, 1867, a similar petition was to the couuty hoard with was taught one summer iD the William eD of the freevious to the enact - text book law. The presented the result that the citizebs of the Grove house, now the Derby place. The school building was erected ment bell in the belfry was the first fire southeast quarter,of Cottage authorized to organize a school present, iBne1863ab by sonars, u[ at Paul,�was T globe nand J±;rq shedss bell used s with Pmaps, were district. and met at the first teacher. in<the new bund- y, was purchased nietionar A flag A meeting was called the home of Jacob Mosher. The ing. The -school room was not first The during the past ,year. The teacher, Miss Blanche Clark, following school officers were Jacob Mosher, director; plastered the year. school board at that time was of Stillwater, h s graduate of the Stillwater high school and of the elected: John Rhodes, clerk; James O. Andrew Nessel, Beckman Winaut O. hemp. Among the Winona Normal. Kemp, treasurer. The first school was taught in and James John prominent d a ffic� s Mosher, Mackintosh. Trutees: 7. well, director and clerk;sWillis Burare 1858 by Miss Katie Jones, in what James Patten Rhodes, I Beckman Winaut, James O. Irving T. Morey, treasurer. was then called the Yom\ Community Life,, Promoting the interests of St. Paul Park. Newport, Langdon.. Cottage Grove, Grey Cloud Island, Woodbury, Afton, and Dcmasrk. Volume I. Number 32. NEWPORT, MINNESOTA, JULY 31, 1930. § Our Album § THE NESSEL SCHOOL RE -UNION ON OCT. 5,. 1924 The torrid w e that has visited this ection fors nal weeks has driven many of our peoples ander .. nae gaentiy, to get a individual story afar Our Album has b en nest to impossible. Hawever, thravgh the kindness and e - te.y of Mrs. Louis Neasel, of Lang erepro- of don, able to prc..nt herewith a rep o d tion of photograph taken O.- tabor 5, 1924, that many will r cognize as the ... taken on the event of a re- union of former pupils of old School Dia trict No. 32., better known as the Newel School. ?ages and pages, ney perhaps a vol- ould be written of r center ng around the group pi cured here$ with. They c c to the old ,choolhousc n a hill along Highway No. 3 and about two miles southeast of Langdon, even then abandoned, to again live over old days when they w all c re-freeboys and girls, to have a camp fire and picnic lunch, sad to have their "picture. took.. This old school site, we understand, s donateabout three -score y go by Law aa Neasel, e.pected Washington Countypioneer. , torr a the youth of those days therudiments of education— readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmet r. When the finenew casolid tcd school 6vilding was erected inLangd n a year pr,vi to as this - the Nesa,l School usw ergs' with tit - From .old n paper files a learn that the first school board of the Neasel School J�silted of Jahn Morey, A. Neasel, and O. Kemp. The first schoolma'amw Batina Basmon. Among others who sub- sequently took p eha rain. of school gav- ment in this, historic at,,ct,,, included: Mrs. A. M. Lsvey (later Mrs.W . Lee), Miss M ggi Jack (latter Mrs. H. P. F.1 lowa). Miss Letitia Roger. (later Mrs. John Van Slyck), Miss Fannie Pitts (later prin- cipal of tho Monad. Park School, St. Paul), Mrs. Ch ,. Kemp (then Mrs. Frank Moahar), Miss Emma McHattie (later Mrs. Henry Brig, ), Mia May Daulton (later Mrs. Geo. L,as,man), M!ss Lydia Van Sly,k (later Mrs. Geo. Barbara., J..iah Thompson, john Q. Mackivtosb, Mia. Chas. Gilmore, Miss Edith Kemp (later Mr.. Sever Vesledahl). Could this old Izndmark talk, it could tell u of the many perpla,ing problems that originated on and migrated from scratching slates to re ealing blackboard,, of the gay time. of both the scholars and their parents—for it was more or less of a cal center in those old days of the gay hearts that later w e dipped in ­rrow and earn, of whom now sleep beneath the d, and of the joyous voic singing "Yankee Doodle" till the very rafters echoed the not,,. fa the picture are, left to right: Front —"Eddie" C. Whitbre$ St. Paul Park; H-6- Hazelton, Cottage Grove (Hast- ings); Irving T Morey, deeeed; M. ChKemp, Lo Mo , lina CO.; and "Doll" Wilkins, dc.—.ed. Second r. -- Mr.. Mrs. Peter Thompson, Cottage Grove; Mrs. Carrie Egan, deceased; Mrs. John W. McLein, St. Paul Park; Mrs. James Me - Laughlin, Hastings; Mrs. Jake Simons, de - This picnic e- m,a, it appears, was n the as o of a sit of two forme pupils who e her visit; they w Mrs. Lydia Tucker, P ovidence, R. L, and her brother, A. D. ("Dell") ii;lkias, Laa.- bert. Mont. Those present attended the ate hool in the se e,bes. Others who attended at the same time but who were of present included: Mrs. Thos. Maguire ( ee Gabriel), Highwood; Mrs. James Mattimore (nee Clark), St Paul; Eddie and John Clark, who a out West," Laurence Neasel, SL Paul; and Clarence M_ Kemp, Highwood. Community Life would welcome school 'day stories from any who are still able to impart them;we are sure that they would 6o most interestingaad 6eacficial to the younger o —`h— LOCAL GIRLS RESERVE HONORS AT 4-H ACHIEVEMENT DAY The 4-H Girls dt Washington unty bad their "Achievement Day" at Stillwater n July 14th. Some very splendid r ordsns��rh made, adof the ... went tos the girls of this locality; among them are; Miss Lucille Mahle, 16, of Woodbury acclaimed the champon garment maker, Price: Se a Copy; $1.00 a Year used; Mrs. Lucy Morley, deceased; Charles Kemp, deceased; and Mrs. Laura Allen, deceased. Back row—Legis Na .cl Langdon; John Kemp, St. Paul Park;. Holland Morey, Hastings; Mrs. Lydia Tucker, then of Providence, R. I.; Charles Daulton, deceased; Mrs. Chas. Gilmore, Loa Molina% Cal.; Mrs. Chas. Daulton, Langdon; and Charles Gilmore, Los Molinos, Cal. Miss Alice Blakeley, of Sc Paul Park, carried offcc ad honors .n she bread makingontesc In. the B s g division, Miss Louise Pieper, of "'..'bury, -.a first pleec; aad Miss Rae Marre Roberts, of Cottage Grove, was -..ad. la the A divsiom Mia. Lu- cille Mehle, of Woodbury, ec 'ved first honor and Mi- Lorrayne V,elker, Ha,t- n The 4-H Girinme af onunty a e dcn.on- strating that they are etraining themselves to be useful a wellor ental—com- ent on the modern flapper notwithstaad- mg. —4— FORTY YEARS' SERVICE Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Sperry p ... ed the fortieth milestone of their residence here in St. Paul Park on July I Ith. Mr. Sperry has also been freight agent and former ticket agent for the Burlington Route dur- g the last I.ete.n year, hila located here. They have seen St. Paul Park when an activebusiness town with many m facto ng planta slowly retire to qu et weid... c suburb of the Twin Cities. They They have lived in their home on Summit Avenue for y years. Thcy arc cajoy- ing good health and are quite active. We wish many more happy yens.