The not-so tiny town of Chanhassen, Minnesota is home to one of the longest running dinner theater's in the country. It began when Herbert and Carolyn Bloomberg, both lovers of Broadway shows, asked themselves, " Wouldn't it be nice to have a little bit of Broadway in Chanhassen?" Now, four decades and over ten million visitors later, the rest is history. Allison Herrera tells us about the Chanhassen Dinner Theater.

Photograph of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Meire Grove, 1887.

Photograph of a window in the Arnold Nietfield house in Meire Grove. From the Fred W. Peterson archival collection, Stearns History Museum, St. Cloud.

Photograph of a brick house built by Henry Imdieke in Meire Grove in 1883. From the Fred W. Peterson archival collection, Stearns History Museum, St. Cloud.

Photograph of a brick manufactured at the Imdieke brick yard between 1883 and 1915 in Meire Grove.

Photograph of the brickyard run by Herman and Joseph Imdieke, c.1890. From the Fred W. Peterson archival collection, Stearns History Museum, St. Cloud.

Photograph of Clemens Meyer's general store on Oak Grove Street in Meire Grove, c.1900. From the Fred W. Peterson archival collection, Stearns History Museum, St. Cloud.

1896 plat map of Grove Township in Stearns County.

Photograph of a brick house under construction in Meire Grove, c.1890. From the Fred W. Peterson archival collection, Stearns History Museum, St. Cloud.