Northfield Historical Society
Museum and Historic Bank Site
The mission of the Northfield Historical Society is to connect individuals to the history of the Northfield area by collecting, preserving, and sharing its unique stories.
Visit Us
408 Division Street
Northfield, MN 55057
Phone number: 507-645-9268
Fax number: 507-663-6080
Admission
$5 – Adults
$4 – Seniors (65+)
$3 – Students
$2 – Children (6 to 12)
Free – Children under 6
Free – NHS Members
Help NHS end the year strong
with a donation!
You can read our year-end letter here.
Donations mailed in or made via Square
go into our General Fund.
What’s New For 2022
The museum will be closed Monday – Friday in January and February.
The museum will be open on Saturdays 10 – 4.
– Additional Programming –
January 15 Late Night at the Museum
22 Late Night at the Museum
29 Kids Night at the Museum
February 5 Late Night at the Museum
12 NHS Annual Meeting*
19 Late Night at the Museum
26 Kids Night at the Museum
See the Programs & Events page for program details.
* The Annual Meeting will be VIRTUAL this year.
Please sign up via Eventbrite so that you get all the info on the meeting.
See the Programs and Events page for program details.
Our Beloved Archer House: A Community Icon
The Northfield Historical Society will be salvaging bricks from the Archer House in the coming week or
two. We will be making these available to the community as a fundraiser with Rebound Partners’
blessing. At this time we don’t know how many we’ll be able to salvage and we don’t know when we’ll
have the sale (spring/ summer) but we PROMISE to let the community know!
** There is no list to reserve a brick and we haven’t talked yet about shipping bricks.
Please bear with us as we work with Rebound Partners to figure all of this out for you.**
NHS welcomes J Term students Lydia Bermel and Adriana Sanchez to the museum!
New Year, New Plans
NHS will be closed to the public during the week in January and February but open on Saturdays. Why are we closing? NHS staff is undertaking some hefty projects in 2022 and we wanted two, interrupted months to get a jump on our accomplishments. Read on to learn what projects we will be tackling. Also, follow us on Facebook – we will be posting updates regularly on the progress of our projects.
January
NHS has the opportunity to work with two talented students from St. Olaf during January J Term. NHS will be adding a touch screen interactive kiosk to the raid exhibit in 2022. One of the topics to be explored on the kiosk is the indigenous people from this area. One of the J Term students will research the Wahpekute and will develop some of the content for this kiosk. The other student will focus on digital preservation. She will digitize the records of some downtown buildings as a step toward adding them as a digital resource for researchers. NHS staff will be devoting time to overseeing these important projects.
(Image credit: In “Territorial Imperative: How Minnesota Became the 32nd State,” by Rhoda Gilman Making Minnesota Territory 1849-1858; Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1999).
Collections Processing
It’s no secret that NHS has had its share of building maintenance issues in the last couple years. We are now faced with a large backlog of items to process. Some of the collections we haven’t gotten to yet are large collections containing hundreds of items. We need the uninterrupted time to catalog, photograph, and provide storage for all of these new items.
Exhibit Planning
Staff at NHS will be spending a good deal of time planning and preparing for the 2022 exhibit featuring Fran Hall. From writing text to preparing artifacts to adding hands-on activities to scheduling programming, this exhibit is going to require intensive efforts and a lot of coordination. Having a clear calendar to spend time creating the newest NHS experience will be necessary—and worth the wait to see it.
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