Not always Fair
The Adair School, located at 3915 Adair Avenue North, was built on the site of Gaulke’s truck farm in 1952. It was the second largest elementary school built in the district after the Second World … Read more
Schools
Our Parker School House
On September 16, 1889 a community meeting was held to consider a new schoolhouse. The voters of the district later appropriated the huge sum of $10,000 to build the school. Ground was broken on March … Read more
Robbinsdale’s First High School
In December of 1935, a W. P.A. grant from the Federal Government in the amount of $175,000, made it possible to erect Robbinsdale’s first senior High School. The total cost of the school was $300,000. … Read more
The Parker School Ranks A1
One of the most attractive buildings in Robbinsdale is the Parker School, which was erected some ten years since at a cost of about ten thousand dollars, by the school district. It is built of … Read more
Our Lutheran Seminary
It was located on a street called College Avenue, now Regent Avenue North , near 40th. The Seminary was dedicated September 8, 1889. About 5,000 people came to hear speeches given in German, Swedish, Norwegian … Read more
The First School
The first school house was built on the farm of H. R. Stillman – stood about at 4342 Adair Avenue. Probably built in the 1870’s – a one room building. Here the folks gathered for … Read more
Robbinsdale Schools on Regent
The first school built on Regent, then called College Avenue was the Luther Theological Seminary Seminary. The building was situated on a ten-acre tract donated by early movers and shakers George L. Brimball, Alfred Parker, … Read more
Slow and Steady Robbinsdale
The image at the top of the page features a Parker’s School postcard from Jeff Vick’s collection. This post is the third part of a series based on an A+ history paper Roberta Lee … Read more