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Otsego Sign Project October Update 3601 Thurston Avenue Anoka, MN 55303 763.231.5840 TPC@PlanningCo.com MEMORANDUM TO: Heritage Preservation Commission FROM: Scott Richards / Kim Welter DATE: October 5, 2017 RE: Otsego – Heritage Preservation Commission - History Sign Project TPC FILE: 101.01 – 13.04 B ACKGROUND Please find as attached layouts for six park signs that have been discussed by the Heritage Preservation Commission members. Kim Welter of designkW, LLC has been incorporating the text and pictures into the layouts as presented here. TPC has been working with Gopher Sign company on quotes for the image panel and frame. Please find the layouts and quotes for completion of the signs as follows. The Heritage Preservation Commission should discuss the image panels and frames at its October meeting. Attachments: Prairie Park Layout  Lily Pond Park Layout  Beaudry Meadows Park Layout  Kittredge Crossings Park Layout  Frankfort Park Layout  School Knoll Park Layout  Upright Sign Image  Cantilever Sign Image  Quote for Upright Signs  Quote for Cantilever Signs  A NALYSIS L: Ms. Welter is assembling a handout for discussion at your meeting that will outline AYOUTS the signage designs and will include a list of items to be added and questions she has related to the final images. 1 :The Heritage Preservation Commission, at their September meeting was favorable to FRAMES an image size of 24 inches by 36 inches with an upright frame style. Gopher Signs, a company that has done signage for the Minnesota Historical Society and cities throughout Minnesota, has provided quotes for both the upright sign frame and the cantilever. There is no difference in the cost. The sign faces would be fabricated on a metal base with a fade resistant image which is found to be durable and is difficult to vandalize. Additionally, the signs can be printed on both sides of the panel and flipped over if the image is compromised. The quotes indicate that the approximate cost for each sign with shipping is about $635.00. There will be an additional cost for City staff to install the signs. Once the artwork is approved, the signs will take four to six weeks to fabricate. Although the Heritage Preservation Commission has indicated a preference for the upright frame design, a quote was provided for both to determine if there was a difference in cost. The Heritage Preservation Commission should confirm their final decision on the frame style at the October meeting. Please see the pictures provided. C ONCLUSION The Heritage Preservation Commission should discuss the layouts and make a final decision on the frame style options at their October meeting. Dan Licht will be at the meeting to answer any questions. c. Tami Loff, City Clerk Kim Welter, kW Design, LLC 2 When the first permanent settlers arrived at Otsego in 1852, Minnesota had not yet attained statehood; this occurred May 11, 1858. In Wright County, Pleasant Grove Precinct was established April 9, 1855 under the territorial government. The name Pleasant Grove is used in several history books, but the name appears as Pheasant Grove on the 1855 Census and in some County records. The Township was established April 5, 1858 and renamed Otsego. The Otsego townsite of about 400 acres was surveyed and platted in 1857 [at the current intersection of Nashua Avenue and 95th Street (CSAH 39)]. There was a school, town hall, post office, store, ferry, sawmill, blacksmith shop, church, parsonage, tabernacle, camp grounds, and hotel as well as a number of homes. A few original structures still stand. Many of Otsego’s early settlers came from Maine and other New England states. They made their living in the fur trade, lumbering and agriculture. Most forests in New England had been cut down, destroying the habitat for fur-bearing animals. The thin, rocky soil made farming difficult and unprofitable. News of cheap, affordable land in the west attracted many to this area. Settling in the “Big Woods” presented a real challenge. The thick growth of large hardwood trees and undergrowth of bushes and grasses had to be cleared for crop land. The settlers chopped and felled trees, using oxen to haul the logs. Old fallen and rotting timber and undergrowth was burned. To prepare the land for planting crops, a man walked beside the oxen pulling the plow, using a stick or whip to guide them while another man steered the plow through the hard soil, grasses and roots. The trees that were cut down provided shelter and household furnishings. Log cabins were usually 12 by 20 feet. Floors were dirt, bark or wood. The cabinets, shelves, beds, tables and chairs were sometimes home-made. Mattresses were often filled with grass or corn husks and supported by rope. Source: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission, 1996. Otsego - In the Beginning 1852 to 1880. Otsego General Store Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Otsego townsite in Otsego township surveyed and platted in 1857 Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Otsego Blacksmith Shop Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission PRAIRIE PARK 13355 90th Street NE Otsego, MN est.1858 TOWNSHIP OF OTSEGO WEBwww.ci.otsego.mn.us Myrtle (Williams) Davis, Claude Davis, Emmeline (Spencer) Davis, Grace & Joe Davis, Arthur Davis Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Prairie Park & City Campus LILY POND PARK 10135 Kadler Avenue NE Otsego, MN WEBwww.ci.otsego.mn.us est.1858 TOWNSHIP OF OTSEGOAll of Otsego falls within an area of the state known as The Big Woods, a huge densely wooded eco-region originally 100 miles long and forty miles long running diagonally from Minnesota to Wisconsin. Settlers cleared much of it for farming in the early settlements during the 1850’s and 1860’s. Lily Pond was a transient hunting area for Native Americans. This area or townsite, Lily Pond (also called “Bedford”) was considered a close neighbor, but separate from Otsego townsite in the early days of settlers from Canada, New England and Europe in the 1850s. Both were in Otsego township, however. Settlers mostly farmed and worked at the Ingersoll brick factory or the lumber industry seasonally. Some worked on the river as “River Pigs,” where lumberjacks steered the logs from as far away as Aitken downriver by jumping from log to log and using tools designed to manage the flow. It was a very dangerous undertaking! Prominent features of the area were the Lily Pond School (at the northwestern corner of Highway 39 and Kadler Avenue NE), the Lily Pond Methodist Episcopal church (directly across from the school) and the Baker Ferry crossing the Mississippi at the end of Kadler, but slightly east of the current Kadler Avenue. Source: TBD Caleb T. Baker Farm, Otsego Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School Class; Easter 1906 Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation CommissionGoing to the Ladies Aid in Otsego; 1916 Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Methodist Episcopal Church District 10; 1910 Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission BEAUDRYMEADOWS PARK 11375 77th Street NE Otsego, MN WEBwww.ci.otsego.mn.us First inhabitants of this area were Native Americans who did not build permanent dwellings, but moved seasonally. The Beaudry family who homesteaded in this area were French-Canadian and are first listed in the 1880 census. They were and are hard-working dairy farmers who milk 70 or more cows a day and seldom get a day off. The Otsego Creek runs through this area on its way to the Mississippi River. In the past, carp from the Mississippi would swim into Otsego creek and children would spear them with pitchforks and bring them home to clean and cook. Source: TBD est.1858 TOWNSHIP OF OTSEGO “Pride of Otsego” barn built by Alvin Frank and Alfred Beaudry. The blocks used for the building were made on the farm site. Dairy farming was conducted in this barn until 1998. It is still standing; can you find it? Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Children by Otsego creek near old City Hall – taking a break from the Methodist/Baptist church Sunday school; ~1900 Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Greeniger School District 30 – located on McAlister and 67th Street in the area known as the “Crossroads” – the building no longer exists. Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission KITTREDGECROSSINGS PARK 7150 Kittredge Parkway NE Otsego, MN WEBwww.ci.otsego.mn.us Original dwellers of this land were Native Americans who hunted here seasonally. A couple of significant battles took place on the Mississippi River between the Dakota and Chippewa 1772-1773. Early permanent settlers came from New England, Canada and Europe in the early 1850s. A grasshopper infestation plus a national recession in 1856-7 caused farms to fail and some people to abandon their land claims. Others survived by harvesting ginseng which grew naturally in the woods. Ginseng was bought by traders from Virginia who sold it to those who used the ginseng as medicine. In 1858 the Federal Homestead Act was passed and signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The Act allowed settlers to get 160 acres of cheap land ($1.25 per acre) if they built a house where they lived and worked the land for a specific length of time, often five years. Farmers supplemented their income by working seasonally as loggers on the Mississippi. Later, land was divided so that farms became much smaller, an average of 80 acres, mostly dairy farms with subsistence stock and varied crops. Some still remember when Interstate 94 came through the area in the 1960s and split some properties again. Otsego was not incorporated as a city until 1990! Source: TBD est.1858 TOWNSHIP OF OTSEGO Painting of the Lorenzo Smith Family barn; 1900? Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Leonard Smith on a working farm horse; 1900? Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission American Ginseng Credit: Shutterstock.com ROYALTY-FREE PHOTO KIM TO PURCHASE IF OKAY Lahn home built with local Vasseur brick; 1912 Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Vasseur home built with local Vasseur brick; 1920 Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Ingersoll home built with Mississippi mud brick; 1875 Credit: Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission FRANKFORT PARK 5500 Randolph Avenue NE Otsego, MN WEBwww.ci.otsego.mn.us est.1858 TOWNSHIP OF OTSEGOThis area used to be part of Frankfort Township which was settled in the summer of 1854. Many of the pioneer settlers came from Germany and chose this name of an ancient city in Prussia. There is also evidence that Native American burial mounds are in this area but history is unclear about which tribes created them. In Otsego there were a couple of well-known brick producers who made bricks from local mud along the Mississippi or near the Crow River on the Vasseur farm. Good examples of the yellow/cream brick produced in the Frankfort area are the Lahn and Vasseur houses and the old St. Michael Catholic church (1866.) Another brick production area was on the Mississippi River at the Ingersoll Farm (later Davis house) which was built much earlier, in the late 1800s. The original Ingersoll house is still standing on Highway 39 East about 2 miles east of the intersection of Highways 39 & 19. According to Will Holt, a farmer who lived close to the Ingersoll farm and kept a diary from 1877 to 1890, many farmers worked at the brickyard for extra cash. Source: TBD 37 COUNTY 37 COUNTY 39 COUNTY 42 COUNTY 39 COUNTY 19 COUNTY 36 COUNTY 42 COUNTY 37 COUNTY 18 COUNTY 101 101 94 KA D L E R A V E N U E MISSISSIPPI RIVER District 11 > Lily Pond District 10 > Otsego A collection of Otsego youth in the year 1926 Photo: Courtesy of the Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Photo: Courtesy of the Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Opened in 1995. Photo: Courtesy of Otsego Elementary 1906. Mrs. Hitsman Photo: Courtesy of the Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission 1937. Front row: Gordon DeMars, Rinehard Barthel, Alroy Barthel, Kenny Valerius Back row: Cletus Vetch, LeRoy Valerius, Wilfred Beaudry, Sylvester Barthel Photo: Courtesy of the Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Closed in 1941. Photo: Courtesy of the Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Closed in 1954. Photo: Courtesy of the Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Photo: Courtesy of the Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Moved to Otsego in 2008; Approx. enrollment is 520. Photo: Courtesy of the Kaleidoscope Charter School Photo: Courtesy of the Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission District 112 > Richter District 30 > Greeninger (Greninger)Former Schools KEY Current Schools District 12 > Otsego Heuring District 9 > Carron Kaleidoscope Charter School Otsego Elementary SCHOOL KNOLL PARK 15501 83rd Street NE Otsego, MN WEBwww.ci.otsego.mn.us est.1858 TOWNSHIP OF OTSEGO In the 1940s, eight rural schools provided an education for the children of Otsego. The schools were established through Wright County. Districts were formed as needed when residents petitioned the County Board. The district boundary lines were constantly changing with the population and a numbering system revision in the 1950s renamed several of them. The last rural school to close was District 11, Lily Pond School, which consolidated with Monticello and Elk River in 1955. It was a two-room stucco schoolhouse built in 1914. Otsego City Clerk Jerome Perrault attended the Lily Pond School. The building is located on CSAH 39 at Kadler Avenue. It has been remodeled into a private home. The Otsego School, District 10, was located in the Village of Otsego. Perrault believes the existing building was erected in the mid-1920s after the first building burned. Perrault recalls as a boy seeing the rectangular indent in the ground where the previous building had stood. “Report on Rural School House,” by A. A. Zech, school superintendent, provides an inventory card of the Otsego School before the fire. It is dated June 26, 1916. The 1916 Otsego School was a frame building in good condition on one half acre. It was built in about 1885. The school house had one room in fair condition 28.26 feet by 25.33 feet, a hall and a basement. There was a Storm King No. 240 furnace in the basement. The Otsego School had 125 square feet of slate blackboard, 51 single desks, and an ordinary teacher’s desk in poor condition ($4 value.) Pupils could get a drink with individual cups at the water cooler. A basin and towels were provided for washing hands. Two outhouses in good condition were lighted and had toilet paper. Otsego Heuring School, District 12 (later 2633) closed in 1954. This building is now a private home located on CSAH 37 at O’Dean Avenue. The St. Michael Village School building (District 20) was located outside the city limits of present day Otsego although Otsego children attended. It was a brick building constructed in 1908. Joint District 39 (later 285) was shared between Wright and Hennepin counties, serving children from Otsego and Frankfort. The Richter School, District 112, the Greeninger School, District 30, and the Carron School, District 9, all closed in the 1940s. The Richter School was located near McIver Avenue and 80th Street. The Greeninger School was at McAlister Avenue and 67th Street in the area known as “The Crossroads.” The Carron School was located on River Road (now vacated) across from the Lefebvre farm. This area is now the Country Ridge development. Source: Elaine Norin, Otsego historian & former OHPC Commissioner. This article was published in the Otsego View in about 1990. NEED TO ADD PRAIRIE VIEW Gopher Sign Company 1310 Randolph Avenue Saint Paul Minnesota USA 55105 Quote 12920 09/27/2017 60 Days BILL TO: City of Otsego 13400 90th Street NE Otsego Minnesota 55330 SHIP TO: City of Otsego Ross Demant PH: 13400 90th Street NE Otsego Minnesota,55330 Account Name:City of Otsego Quote Stage:Draft Contact Name: Email: Adam Flaherty Phone:763-441-4414 Project: Parks Signs with Upright Exhibit Stands Product Details Qty List Price Total 1.Imageloc Sign-Framed (ILOCF) ImageLOC sign panels for double-post upright signs - 36" w x 24" h x .125" in thickness, printed on both sides with the same image on each side; 1/8" radius corners and small 1/8" processing holes on the top left and right corners of the panels which will be hidden by the frame; no additional holes in the panels 7 $141.00 $987.00 2.Exhibit Base/Mounting Hardware Mounting Upright Mounting base system for Image-Loc Signs - 36" w x 24" h x .125" in thickness consisting of two 87" long 3" x 3" aluminum posts with a welded top cap; rivet nuts inserted into the posts to simplify installation; full /125" thick aluminum extruded frame wiht back plate surrounds the entire sign panel to provide added strength and appearance; the frame attaches to the upright posts with the rivet nuts; (all hardware included); the entire exhibit base is powder coated a textured dark brown for added weather resistance and improved aesthetic appearance 7 $426.00 $2,982.00 3.Digital File Setup Art Includes preflighting the graphic files, pdf proofs, uploading the graphic files to the RIP, Ripping the files, uploading the ripped files to the printers and checking the router cut outline files for the sign panels 7 $28.57 $199.99 4.Estimated Shipping Estimated shipping charges to destination on common carrier from zip code 57226 to zip code 55330 on an oversized skid to protect the shipment from damage; actual shipping charges will be invoiced at time of shipment. 1 $152.24 $152.24 5.Proof -10x8 Hard (Single Side) Hard Proof 10" x 8" x .125" aluminum Imageloc-tm proofing sample. Price includes ground shipping to destination. Specify ship-to address if different from that shown above. 1 $35.00 $35.00 Sub Total $4,356.23 Tax $0.00 Adjustment $87.12 Grand Total $4,443.35 All artwork submittals for this project must reference above Quote # When appropriate please further identify line item and/or panel size to aid in file identification Terms and Conditions ImageLOC® signs are warranted for 10 years against UV fading, cracking, peeling, blistering or delaminating as noted in the Limited Warranty. All Prices are FOB Clear Lake, SD, 57226 unless otherwise noted. Price does not include sales tax. Payment is due prior to shipping or net 30 day terms are available with credit approval. A 2% fee has been added to the total to cover the processing fee charged by your credit card company. Normal production leadtime on proofs is 1 - 2 weeks; typical on signs and exhibit stands is 4 weeks after approval of the PDF proofs + transit time. * P5 f. z ;� ., � ,s Y Y } � �n f ` q'Si k � � n - rte^ a � i '4 ,.� ;. 1 i � # a: ` t. _ � �� ��: Gopher Sign Company 1310 Randolph Avenue Saint Paul Minnesota USA 55105 Quote 12921 09/27/2017 60 Days BILL TO: City of Otsego 13400 90th Street NE Otsego Minnesota 55330 SHIP TO: City of Otsego Ross Demant PH: 13400 90th Street NE Otsego Minnesota,55330 Account Name:City of Otsego Quote Stage:Draft Contact Name: Email: Adam Flaherty Phone:763-441-4414 Project: Parks Signs - Cantilever Exhibit Stands Product Details Qty List Price Total 1.Imageloc Sign-Framed (ILOCF) ImageLOC sign panels for double-post upright signs - 36" w x 24" h x .125" in thickness, printed on both sides with the same image on each side; 1/8" radius corners and small 1/8" processing holes on the top left and right corners of the panels which will be hidden by the frame; no additional holes in the panels 7 $141.00 $987.00 2.Exhibit Base/Mounting Hardware Mounting Cantilever Exhibit base system for Image-Loc Signs - 36" w x 24" h x .125" in thickness consisting of two 92" long 3" x 3" aluminum posts with a welded top cap; rivet nuts inserted into the posts to simplify installation; full /125" thick aluminum extruded frame with back plate surrounds the entire sign panel to provide added strength and appearance; the frame attaches to the upright posts with the rivet nuts; (all hardware included); the entire exhibit base is powder coated a textured dark brown for added weather resistance and improved aesthetic appearance 7 $426.00 $2,982.00 3.Digital File Setup Art Includes preflighting the graphic files, pdf proofs, uploading the graphic files to the RIP, Ripping the files, uploading the ripped files to the printers and checking the router cut outline files for the sign panels 7 $28.57 $199.99 4.Estimated Shipping Estimated shipping charges to destination on common carrier from zip code 57226 to zip code 55330 on an oversized skid to protect the shipment from damage; actual shipping charges will be invoiced at time of shipment. 1 $152.24 $152.24 5.Proof -10x8 Hard (Single Side) Hard Proof 10" x 8" x .125" aluminum Imageloc-tm proofing sample. Price includes ground shipping to destination. Specify ship-to address if different from that shown above. 1 $35.00 $35.00 Sub Total $4,356.23 Tax $0.00 Adjustment $87.12 Grand Total $4,443.35 All artwork submittals for this project must reference above Quote # When appropriate please further identify line item and/or panel size to aid in file identification Terms and Conditions ImageLOC® signs are warranted for 10 years against UV fading, cracking, peeling, blistering or delaminating as noted in the Limited Warranty. All Prices are FOB Clear Lake, SD, 57226 unless otherwise noted. Price does not include sales tax. Payment is due prior to shipping or net 30 day terms are available with credit approval. A 2% fee has been added to the total to cover the processing fee charged by your credit card company. Normal production leadtime on proofs is 1 - 2 weeks; typical on signs and exhibit stands is 4 weeks after approval of the PDF proofs + transit time.