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Colonial Hall operating as a museum

Colonial Hall operating as a museum, date unknown. Beginning in 1971, Anoka’s Masonic Lodge No. 30 leased Colonial Hall to the Anoka County Historical Society (ACHS). The house served as a museum and held all of the ACHS collections for thirty years. Used with the permission of the Anoka County Historical Society.

Colonial Hall Postcard

Postcard with image of Colonial Hall, residence of Drs. Alanson and Flora Aldrich. Photographer and date unknown; possibly taken shortly after the home was built in 1904. Used with the permission of the Anoka County Historical Society.

Colonial Hall

Colonial Hall (1900 3rd Avenue South, Anoka), date unknown. This was the home of Dr. Alanson Aldrich and Dr. Flora Aldrich. Alanson was an avid hunter and kept several hunting dogs in a kennel behind the house, two of which can be seen on the porch in this photograph. Photographer and date unknown. This photograph was found in the 1960s in the home of Era M. Smith, a friend of Dr. Flora Aldrich. Used with the permission of the Anoka County Historical Society.

Colonial Hall and Masonic Lodge 30

Photograph showing Colonial Hall (right, built in 1904) after Masonic Lodge No. 30 (left, built in 1922) was built beside it. Photographer unknown, ca. 1970s.

Colonial Hall and Masonic Lodge No. 30, Anoka

Designed by noted architect Frederick Marsh, this seventeen-room Georgian Revival-style home, built in Anoka in 1904, received the name “Colonial Hall” courtesy of its original residents, the doctors Alanson and Flora Aldrich.

I-35W wreckage

View of the I-35W bridge wreckage in the Mississippi looking through the arches of the Tenth Avenue bridge in Minneapolis. Photograph by Kevin Rofidal (Edina Police Department), August 4, 2007.

I-35W bridge structure

Underside of the bridge showing the deck truss construction and gusset plates. Photo by Flickr user ibran. BY-NC-ND 2.0

I-35W Bridge Collapse

The I-35W (Interstate 35 West) bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis opened to traffic in 1967. Thousands of vehicles drove across it every day, but no one imagined that a mistake in the bridge’s design, made over forty years prior, would have such disastrous consequences on one summer evening in August of 2007.