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The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum is a fine arts museum in Moorhead, Minnesota, United States, founded by James O'Rourke. The art museum can be found at 521 Main Avenue in a historic Federal Courthouse and Post Office , erected in 1915.
Moorhead: Only remaining example of the false-front buildings once common to downtown Moorhead; a commercial/residential property built circa 1880 for early businessman and land speculator Frank Burnham. [9] 6: Comstock Public School: Comstock Public School: May 7, 1980 : Main St.
U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) is a major divided highway for almost all of its length in the U.S. state of Minnesota.The route runs through the central portion of the state, following generally the alignment of the former Northern Pacific Railway (now BNSF Railway) and connects the cities of Moorhead, Detroit Lakes, Wadena, Little Falls, St. Cloud, Anoka, Saint Paul, and Cottage Grove.
I-94 BL west (34th Street) / CSAH 52 (Main Avenue Southeast) Signed as exits 2A (Main Avenue Southeast) and 2B (34th Street) eastbound: Glyndon Township: 6.075: 9.777: 6: MN 336 / CSAH 11 – Sabin: Sabin only signed eastbound; also access to US 10, Detroit Lakes, Airport, Glyndon, Dilworth: Elkton Township: 15.239: 24.525: 15: CSAH 10 ...
At the east end of downtown Fargo, US 10 intersects 2nd Street at a roundabout before crossing over the Red River of the North and into Moorhead, Minnesota, on the Veterans Memorial Bridge. All of US 10 in North Dakota is part of the National Highway System , [ 3 ] a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy ...
The city was platted in 1871 and named for William Galloway Moorhead, a Northern Pacific Railway official and brother-in-law of financier Jay Cooke. [10] [11]The former Moorhead Armory on 5th Street South was the site of the intended concert destination for musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper before their fatal plane crash a few miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa around 1:00 ...
Clay County was established in 1860 as Breckinridge County, and named for John C. Breckinridge, vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861.After the Civil War began, Breckinridge joined the Confederate Army and in March 1862 the state Legislature replaced the name of Breckinridge with that of Henry Clay (1777–1852), who like Breckinridge was from Lexington, Ky., and was known "The ...
Fargo–Moorhead, also known as the FM area, is a common name given to the metropolitan area comprising Fargo, North Dakota; Moorhead, Minnesota; and the surrounding communities. These two cities lie on the North Dakota–Minnesota border, on opposite banks of the Red River of the North. The region is the cultural, retail, health care ...