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home Mission: Education, Research, Sustainability, Civic Engagment Katharine Ordway Richard J. Christman Aerial Photo Maps and Directions History of Ordway Contact Information Richard McCarthy, Resident Naturalist
9550 Inver Grove Trail
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076
651-455-6204
Mike Anderson
Associate Director
Mark Davis
Director
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Katharine
Ordway grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota and attended the University of
Minnesota, where she majored in Biology and Art. She later
pursued medicine and land use planning at Yale and Columbia.
Growing up on the eastern edge of the Great Plains made an impact on
Ordway. Now often referred to as "the lady who saved the
prairies", she provided the Nature Conservancy with much of its early
funding to purchase and preserve tens of thousands of acres of North
American prairies, many of which now bear her name. In the
mid-1960s, the College decided it wanted to establish a field station
for ecological study and identified property in Inver Grove Heights,
bluffland habitat along the Mississippi River, as a suitable site.
In 1967, Macalester accepted a gift of $150,000 from Katharine
Ordway to purchase the property, and, in gratitude, named the field
station after her.
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