Completed in 1917, this building houses the state’s oldest institution. Since 1849, before Minnesota was a state, the society has been collecting, preserving, and interpreting the objects and records which document the story of Minnesota was a state, the society has been collecting, preserving, and interpreting the objects and records which document the story of Minnesota and its people.
-That’s what it says on the back of one of these old postcards
The building became the Minnesota Judicial Center after the historical society moved across the highway in 1992. The old place was dedicated on 16th anniversary of Minnesota’s statehood May 11, 1918, and has been added to National Register of Historic Places.