The Coe House in Minneapolis is the home of the new African American Museum and Cultural Center. The house was built in 1884. It's a Queen Anne-style Victorian at 1700 3rd Avenue South, and has been renovated in the first stage of the museum's construction.
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The new Minnesota African American Museum and Cultural Center in Minneapolis opens this weekend, in an old Victorian era mansion known as the Coe House. The museum has been created to help share the state's history from a perspective that isn't always heard.
The museum's opening is part of the first Legacy Festival being held at Stevens Park just south of downtown Minneapolis this weekend.
Earlier Friday, as workers were still getting the museum ready for its debut, MPR's Tom Crann talked with the museum's founder Roxanne Givens.
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Toni Stone is part of the "Black and Brown Baseball" exhibit at the Minnesota African American Museum. Stone grew up in St. Paul and graduated from Roosevelt High in Minneapolis. She was one of the first women to play Negro League baseball. She played for the St. Paul Giants, and for the Indianapolis Clowns. She once got a hit off the legendary pitcher Satchel Paige.
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The Coe House in Minneapolis is the home of the new African American Museum and Cultural Center. The house was built in 1884. It's a Queen Anne-style Victorian at 1700 3rd Avenue South, and has been renovated in the first stage of the museum's construction.
MPR Photo/Tom Crann
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Roxanne Givens, founder of the Minnesota African American Museum, stands in front of the Coe Mansion in the Stevens Park neighborhood of Minneapolis on Friday, June 1, 2012. Once the house was for sale, Givens says she knew that it would make a good site for the museum.
MPR Photo/Tom Crann
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