HENNEPIN COUNTY: MINNETONKA:

An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Government Records

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Minnetonka (Minn.).
	Title:	Records.
	Dates:	1932-1988.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Records of the city of Minnetonka and of its predecessors, the township and village of Minnetonka.
	Quantity:	15.0 cubic feet (15 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

HISTORICAL NOTE

Minnetonka township was incorporated in 1858, and in 1956 it reincorporated as the Village of Minnetonka.

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Included are clerk's subject files (containing correspondence and miscellaneous papers); code of ordinances (1972); building permits (1963-1964, 1973-1974); and city engineer's street files and correspondence files (circa 1948-1970).

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ARRANGEMENT

These documents are organized into the following sections:



		Minnetonka Township

		Minnetonka City and Village

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnetonka (Minn.). Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 79-332 ; 979-88; 980-16; 987-148; 2016-63

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 001706303

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

MINNETONKA TOWNSHIP

Location

116.F.6.10F

Old age pension applications, 1932-1936.

Suburban Hennepin County Relief Board, 1937-1940.

Correspondence and petitions, 1933-1942. 2 folders.

Clerk's correspondence:

A-B, 1942-1943.

A-Z, 1945-1947. 6 folders.

A-Z, 1948-1949. 4 folders.

Tresurer's annual statement, 1932.

Location

116.F.6.11B

Township Clerk's subject files:

Agreements, 1951-1953.

Anniversary of township, 1949-1954.

Appraisal, 1951.

Assessor, 1948-1956. 2 folders.

Attorney General Opinions, 1949-1955.

Bank correspondence, 1949-1955.

Beer permits, 1951-1956.

Board of review, 1950-1954.

Booklet sent with homestead applications, 1950-1955.

Building in township, 1950-1955.

Civilian defense, 1952-1956.

Committees in township, 1950-1955.

County Fair, 1949-1953.

County Surveyor, 1949-1955.

Dogs and kennels, 1949-1957.

Drainage, 1952-1955.

Drainage-LaSalle avenue, 1953.

Dumps and dumping, 1950-1954.

Eden Prairie petition, 1952.

Elections, 1950-1956. 2 folders.

Fact Finding Committee: Township v. Village, 1949-1956.

Fire protection, 1948-1955.

Fire truck, 1953-1954.

Forgy v. Township of Minnetonka, 1952-1957.

Gas company correspondence, 1952-1955.

Grand jury investigation of assessor, 1951. 2 folders.

Gravel pit, 1954.

Gustavson, Nels, 1952-1957.

Health, 1949-1955.

Highway Department (county), 1949-1956. 2 folders.

Holdridge petition, 1955.

Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and School, 1952.

Insurance, 1949-1956.

Interlachen Park, 1952.

Location

116.F.6.12F

Legislation, 1953-1955.

Madsen, Carl, 1955.

Minnesota Valley Natural Gas Company, 1951.

Minnetonka Mills land use proposal, 1953-1954.

Minnetonka Taxpayers' Association, 1951-1952.

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1953-1956.

Mosquito abatement, 1949-1952.

Order of town board, 1950, 1954.

Parks and recreation, 1949-1957. 2 folders.

Petitions, 1950-1954.

Plats, 1952-1956.

Relief cases, 1952-1953.

Relief contracts, 1950-1956.

Road correspondence, petitions, and vacations, 1950-1957. 15 folders.

Rural Hennepin County Nursing District, 1949-1956. 2 folders.

St. Louis Park annexation, 1956-1957.

State Department of Taxation, 1949-1952.

State Highway Department, 1949-1955.

State Representation, 1950-1953.

Street lighting, 1949-1953.

Town-owned land, 1949-1955.

Town meetings, 1952-1956.

Weed inspection, 1951-1955.

Whitson v. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Company and Minnetonka Township, 1956-1957.

Woodland village, 1949.

Zoning petitions, 1949-1955.

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MINNETONKA CITY AND VILLAGE

Location

116.F.5.12F

Clerk's Subject Files:

Anderson v. Village of Minnetonka, 1957.

Building Code Violations, 1957.

Elections, 1956-1957. 3 folders.

Financial Statements, 1956-1957.

Minnetonka Village v. City of St. Louis Park, 1956.

Planning, 1957.

Robinwood 2nd Association, 1957.

Rural Hennepin County Nursing, 1957.

Zoning, 1957.

Council Agendas and Supporting Papers, November 1961-1962. 6 folders.

City Clerk's Outgoing Correspondence, 1970-1971. 10 folders.

Alphabetical.

Location

116.F.5.13B

Clerk's Subject Files:

Includes correspondence and miscellaneous records.

Administrator, 1961-1963. 3 folders.

Agreements, 1962-1963.

Annexations and Detachments, 1963.

Annual Budget, 1988.

Annual Reports, Municipal, 1969-1972.

Assessment Policy, 1970.

Assessor, 1961-1963, 1965-1970. 8 folders.

Attorney, 1964, 1966-1967.

Attorney General, 1960-1962. 3 folders.

Auditor, 1969-1970. 2 folders.

Auditor-Auditing, 1968.

Auditing-Auditors, 1965-1967. 3 folders.

Automatic Reduction-Complaints.

Automatic Reduction System, 1969-1971. 3 folders.

Auto Service Stations, 1962-1970. 9 folders.

Banks-Banking, 1970-1971.

Ban the Can.

Beer Licenses, 1961-1970. 10 folders.

Location

116.F.5.14F

Board of Review, 1961-1971. 9 folders.

Bowling Alleys-Theatres-Pool Halls-Cart Track, 1960-1970. 8 folders.

Budget Reports, 1964.

Budget, 1963-1964.

1963 Proposed Budget.

Budget, 1960-1962. 3 folders.

Building Inspector (or Inspection), 1960-1971. 12 folders.

Bureau of Outdoor Recreation.

Capital Improvement Program, 1971-1975.

Census, 1963, 1965, 1970, 1971. 4 folders.

Chamber of Commerce, 1969.

Charter, [1969].

Charter with index, [1982].

Charter commission, 1966-1971. 4 folders.

Churches: Minnetonka.

Churches, 1963-1970. 5 folders.

Location

116.F.6.1B

Cigarette License Applications, 1961-1970. 9 folders.

Citizen. Complaints, 1969-1970. 2 folders.

Citizens League, 1971.

Citizens League Reports (Mpls. and Hennepin County), 1965.

City Manager, 1970-1971. 2 folders.

City Manager Applications.

City Manager-Memos to Council, 1970-1971. 2 folders.

City Hall Parking Lot.

Civic Center, 1966-1967. 2 folders.

Clippings, News, 1960, 1961, 1963. 3 folders.

Coin Operated Amusement Devices, 1966-1969. 4 folders.

Miscellaneous Complaints, 1962-1966. 4 folders.

Council, 1960-1971. 12 folders.

County Auditor, County Surveyor, 1963-1964. 2 folders.

County Auditor, 1960-1962. 3 folders.

Court Services (Work Squad Program), 1965.

Location

116.F.6.2F

Division of Lots, Sections 21-36, 1962-1963. 2 folders.

Detachments, 1964.

Dogs, 1967.

Electrical Power Rate Study, 1966.

EOSE Civil Defense.

Federal Food Stamp Program, 1965-1966.

Financial Consultants, 1966-1968. 3 folders.

Fire Correspondence, Data, 1971.

Fire Departments, 1965.

Flood, 1965.

Gehrman Animal Hospital, 1965-1968. 4 folders.

Relating to impoundment of dogs.

General Hospital, 1965.

Greenhouses and Nurseries.

Government Day, 1971.

Health Department (Village), 1965-1969. 5 folders.

Health Department (State), 1965.

Health Ordinance.

Hedberg Property.

Hennepin County Civic Center.

Hennepin County Commissioners.

Hennepin County General Hospital, 1966-1971. 6 folders.

Location

116.F.6.3B

Hennepin County League of Municipalities, 1965-1971. 7 folders.

Hennepin County Library.

Hennepin County Reporter.

Hennepin County-Treasurer, 1971.

Hennepin County Water Patrol, 1965.

Hennepin County Work House, 1965.

Housing and Home Finance Agency, 1965-1968. 2 folders.

Housing and Redevelopment Authority, 1970-1971.

H.U.D. Grant.

Human Rights Commission, 1968-1971. 4 folders.

Incinerators, 1970.

Lake Minnetonka Conservation District, 1967-1971. 5 folders.

Lake Minnetonka Matters, 1966-1967.

Land Development Commission, 1970-1971. 2 folders.

Land Notices, 1963.

Land Purchases, 1965-1971. 6 folders.

Location

116.F.6.4F

League of Women Voters, 1965-1971. 5 folders.

Legal & Litigation, 1965-1971. 7 folders.

Libb's Lake.

Liquor Licenses Approved, 1969-1970. 2 folders.

Liquor License Applications, 1968-1969. 2 folders.

Liquor License Applications Recieved, 1969.

Liquor Matters, 1967, 1970. 2 folders.

Liquor, 1963.

Little League, 1968-1969. 2 folders.

Mayor Stan Koch. 2 folders.

MEPCORR, 1966 [Minnetonka-Eden Prairie-Deephaven Council on Religion and Race].

Metropolitan Sewer Rate Study, 1971.

Miscellaneous, 1971. 2 folders.

Minnesota Peace Training Board, 1970.

Minnetonka Community Church.

Memos: Mayor and Council, 1970-1971.

Metropolitan Mosquito Control, 1966-1967. 2 folders.

Minnetonka Game Refuge.

Minnetonka Youth Hockey Association, 1967-1968. 2 folders.

Miscellaneous, 1965-1969. 5 folders.

Location

116.F.6.5B

Northern States Power Company, 1965-1969. 5 folders.

Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, 1965.

Nursery and Day Care Rules and Regulations, 1965.

Permits-Shooting, 1966-1969. 4 folders.

Permits-Various, 1965-1967. 3 folders.

Petition for Liquor, 1968.

Police Department, 1970.

Police Pension Plan, 1969-1970.

Recreation, 1965-1966, 1970. 3 folders.

Richfield Bus Co.

Schools, 1965-1969. 5 folders.

Set-Up Licenses and Forms, 1965-1969. 4 folders.

Shady Oak Beach, 1965-1966. 2 folders.

Signs (No Parking), 1970.

Signs and Billboards, 1965-1970. 6 folders.

Snowmobiles, 1969-1970. 2 folders.

Sewage Treatment Plant - Minnesota River.

Southwest Sanitary Sewer District, 1969-1971. 3 folders.

Special Use Permits.

Suburban Hennepin County Nursing, 1965-1970. 6 folders.

Suburban Hennepin County Relief, 1965-1970. 6 folder.

Suburban Rate Authority, 1965-1970. 6 folders.

Sun Newspapers.

Location

116.F.6.6F

Swimming Pools, 1968.

Swimming Pool - Minnetonka, 1966-1967. 2 folders.

Taxicabs, 1966-1970. 5 folders.

Trailers and Trailer Parks, 1966-1970. 4 folders.

Watershed – Basset’s Creek (and Basset’s Creek Flood

Commission), 1965-1969. 5 folders.

Water Pollution Control Commission , 1965-1967. 3 folders.

Water Testing, 1960.

West Suburban Chamber of Commerce.

YMCA, 1968-1969. 4 folders.

Zoning Matters, 1963.

Zoning Adjustments, 1966-1968. 10 folders.

Abstracts of votes (total and by precinct), city election, November 6, 1976.

Found with Secretary of State election records.

Location

116.F.6.7B

Code of Ordinances, 1972. 2 folders.

Building Permits, May 1963-August 1964. 22 volumes.

Incomplete.

Building Permits, October 1973-November 1975. 14 volumes.

Incomplete.

Location

116.F.6.8F

City Engineer: Street Files, A-O, circa 1948-1970.

Alphabetical by street name.

Location

116.F.6.9B

City Engineer: Street Files, P-Z, circa 1948-1970.

City Engineer: Correspondence Files, A-Z, 1970. 5 folders.

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RELATED MATERIAL

Minute books of Minnetonka Township for 1945 to 1956 are held by the Hennepin County Historical Society (They may be copies).

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CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: Building permits -- Minnesota -- Minnetonka.; Municipal engineering -- Minnesota.; Municipal engineers -- Minnesota.; Ordinances, Municipal -- Minnesota -- Minnetonka.; Streets -- Minnesota -- Minnetonka.

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