Hennepin History Museum is excited to announce we are partnering with Preserve Minneapolis as part of the museum’s new Program Partners initiative. This lecture is part of Preserve Minneapolis’s Minneapolis History Lecture Series and is about Minneapolis’ first housing project, Sumner Field Homes. Two more lectures will be held at the museum over the next several months with speakers provided by Preserve Minneapolis.  Click here for information about future topics.

The Sumner Field public housing project, completed in 1938, was the first federally-funded housing project in Minneapolis.  Its white, Jewish and black residents generally interacted peacefully, supported and looked after families all under the common housing project.  Historian and retired UM Associate Professor, Architecture, with a Ph.D, in History of Art, Stanford University, Kate Solomonson, will discuss the development and importance of the Sumner Field project through the years of its existence.

Doors open at 6:15pm.

Free parking is available in the museum’s lot and on 3rd Ave S.

This program will also be presented virtually on Zoom. Email info@hennepinhistory.org to receive the link and passcode.

Hennepin History Museum is partnering with Preserve Minneapolis to present this program.

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