About: Collections

Edina Historical Society
4711 W. 70th Street
Edina, MN 55435
612-928-4577
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Office hours:
Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon
or by appointment

We want your history

The Edina Historical Society focuses on one topic: Edina.

We do not collect just any old item. Our artifacts must tell the story of Edina: its homes, people, neighborhoods, schools, city government, environment, organizations and businesses (to name just a few sub-topics.)

We do collect new items as well as old. The 2009 Edina High School yearbook is just as important as the first one issued in 1951. We document the first skyscraper as well as the first farm. And we want your story to add to those of the first Edina settlers.

We cannot order Edina history from a catalog. We depend on the public to donate items. We also actively seek out pieces of Edina history from residents before they are lost forever.

Topics being researched (see blog for more details):
Edina Theater, following 75th anniversary in August 2009
Edina Schools, for 150th anniversary exhibit in 2010
Tingdale Brothers, and other major Edina real estate developers
Queen Anne Kiddieland
Early suburban Edina (post WWII to 1970s) - Edina pool, France Avenue drive-in, development of first rec sports teams, last farms, gravel pits, freeway construction, and other history-making changes in the boom years.

Other items needed:
Edina High School yearbooks - missing 1997, 1998, 2000 to present
Edina phone directories - missing 1957, 1998-99, 2000-01
Morningside phone directories - We need phone books for Morningside addresses during the years Morningside was a separate village from Edina (1920 to 1966).