Saturday, June 13, 2015

On this date in Minnesota History: June 13

June 13, 1939. “Crown Prince Olav and Princess Martha of Norway visit Solheim on [Minnesota’s] Bald Eagle Lake’s west side. The mansion [served] as the Consulate for Norway and Sweden.”1

Built in 1897, the Solheim, a Victorian mansion of Norwegian American diplomat Engelbrecht H. Hobe (1860-1940), longtime consul for the United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 19, 1983.2

1http://www.ci.white-bear-township.mn.us/vertical/sites/%7B801D228F-081F-4123-B371-0DC5894FC6D6%7D/uploads/%7BC459BB85-FE9B-48EF-BD64-4A2FA70A3744%7D.PDF

2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Ramsey_County,_Minnesota


http://www.thepeerage.com/p10110.htm#c101097.2

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