Rourke Art Museum
Also recorded as Rourke Art Museum and Gallery · Federal Courthouse and Post Office
Rourke Art Museum
National Park Service · Federal Courthouse nomination, Clay County, Minnesota, #80002015. National Register of Historic Places archives, National Park Service, Department of Interior. 1980. available at · Public domain
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- The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum
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- 1960
- Headquarters
- United States
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• Name — The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum • Established — June 1960 • Location — 521 Main Avenue Moorhead, Minnesota • Type — Art museum • Website — www.therourke.org
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• Name — Federal Courthouse and Post Office • Location — 521 Main Ave., Moorhead, Minnesota • Built — 1915 • Architect — Wenderoth, Oscar • Architecture — Classical Revival • Added — May 7, 1980 • Area — less than one acre • Ref Num — 80002015 The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum is a fine arts museum in Moorhead, Minnesota, United States, founded by James O'Rourke. The art museum can be found at 521 Main Avenue in a historic Federal Courthouse and Post Office, erected in 1915. The building was included in a study of historic properties in Clay County, which said the building "shows the influence of Federal government function in most towns." It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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Rourke Art Museum is associated with United States. Recorded from 1960.
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The Rourke Art Museum (formerly a Federal Courthouse Post Office), 521 Main Ave, Moorhead, Minnesota, USA. Viewed from the north. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 80002015 (Wikidata).
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1960
Rourke Art Museum established.
1960
Rourke Art Museum is recorded from 1960.
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The museum's permanent collections contain more than four-thousand works from an array of cultural and artistic traditions including West African, Islamic, Chinese, Japanese, Pre-Columbian, Contemporary and Colonial Mexican, American Indian, contemporary American, Regionalist, and Pop Art. Artists whose work is represented include Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Allan D'Arcangelo, Robert Rauschenberg, David Gilhooly, Leonard Baskin, Fritz Scholder, Luis Jiménez, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Sir William Nicholson, and Adolf Dehn.
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- 1.NRISref 2009a
- 2.Thomas Harvey. Clay County MRA. National Park Service. 9. December 1979.
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