Inver Grove Elementary School

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Title

Inver Grove Elementary School

Subject

Inver Grove Elementary

Description

Materials related to Inver Grove Elementary School and its predecessors, Dakota County Common School District #7 and briefly Independent School District #416, before it was dissolved and joined to ISD 199 in 1957. Inver Grove Elementary and its predecessor buildings were located in historic Inver Grove Village, below or along the bluffs of the Mississippi River along what is today Concord Boulevard (using 2024 addresses).

None of the original four buildings are still extant:
  • First county school (1854-1872): at 67th and River Road (formerly Doane)
  • Manning Farm School (1872-1882): at 72nd and River Road
  • District #7 School (1882-1918): at 67th and River Road
  • Inver Grove School, District No. 7 (1918-1964): at 4100 66th St E
The modern Inver Grove Elementary School was built in 1965, remained open until its closure in 2000 due to falling enrollments and budget shortfalls, and was a district property until its 2001 sale to the Muslim Foundation of Minnesota. As of 2024 the building remains in use by two charter schools.

Date

1854-2000

Coverage

Inver Grove Elementary

Collection Items

History of Inver Grove Elementary, 1854-1976
Written in the spirit of the 1976 national bicentennial, this book documents 122 years of schooling in Common School District #7, what would eventually be known as Inver Grove Elementary. It includes selected photographs from the 1880s through 1976,…

Inver Grove Elementary Will Hold Bicen Reunion
A 1976 article detailed an Inver Grove Elementary school reunion held to coincide with national bicentennial celebrations.

Photographs of the former Inver Grove Elementary
Photographs taken on the grounds of the former Inver Grove Elementary School, now Discovery Charter School and STEAM Academy.

800 Attend Reunion at Inver Grove School
A 1976 article detailing a school reunion held at Inver Grove Elementary.

22 rooms, river view: IGH hilltop school on the block
A 2000 article detailing the shuttered Inver Grove Elementary, its history, and some teachers and former administrators affected by its loss. The building had just been put up for sale.

School House Burned
A newspaper clipping relaying the April 1872 fire at the District #7 schoolhouse, located on present-day River Road (then Doane Road) near 76th Street. Losses were estimated at $500, with the building insured for $200.
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