Rourke Art Gallery
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Rourke Art Gallery is a museum in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 276 m. The nearest named place is Sticksgarden, a park 0.1 miles away. Highway 75- King of Trails Scenic Byway runs past it.
The story
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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Dates from 1960.
Wikidata Q1453357, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sticksgarden: 0.1 mi
- Daily Park: 0.2 mi
- W.H. Davy Park: 0.2 mi
- Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
- Woodlawn Park: 0.3 mi
- Cassel Woods: 4.9 mi
- Briarwood Prairie: 6.0 mi
- Downer Prairie WPA: 13.8 mi
- Bluestem Prairie SNA: 14.3 mi
- Spieker WPA: 15.3 mi
- Veteran's Memorial Bridge: 0.3 mi
- Fargo Flood Control Project: 0.5 mi
- Ivar Aasen Monument: 0.5 mi
- Hans Nielsen Hauge Monument: 0.6 mi
- Rollo the Viking Statue: 1.1 mi
- Comstock House: 0.4 mi
- Hjemkomst Center: 0.4 mi
- Hopperstad Stave Church: 0.5 mi
- Plains Art Museum: 1.0 mi
- Katherine Kilbourne Burgum Center For Creativity: 1.0 mi
- Tochi Products: 1.2 mi
- Tractor: 1.8 mi
- Minuteman II ICBM: 2.7 mi
- F-102A Delta Dagger: 2.9 mi
- F-101 Voodoo: 2.9 mi
- Ole & Lena: 0.6 mi
- Sown: 0.6 mi
- Sodbuster: 0.7 mi
- Dragon Statue: 0.7 mi
- Angel of Hope: 0.8 mi
- Heritage Garden and Amphitheater: 0.4 mi
- Prairie Wildflower and Wild Grasses Garden: 2.5 mi
- Muskoda: 17.2 mi
- Winnipeg Junction: 24.8 mi
- Moorhead Travel Information Center and Rest Area: 2.4 mi
- 40th Avenue Open Shelter: 7.6 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:00 | 19:40 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:39 | 21:26 |
| September equinox | 07:15 | 18:47 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 08:10 | 15:50 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 8 | 13 | 27 | 43 | 57 | 67 | 71 | 70 | 60 | 45 | 29 | 15 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Moorhead, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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- Fargo · 1 mi
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