This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Houston County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Houston County, Minnesota, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
There are 16 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. A supplementary list includes two sites that were formerly listed on the National Register.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 18, 2023. [1]
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | City or town | Description |
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1 | Ballard Hotel | November 27, 2017 (#100001841) | 163 West Main Street 43°33′38″N91°38′18″W / 43.560653°N 91.638424°W | Spring Grove | 1893 commercial hotel, a once-common amenity catering to traveling salesmen and itinerant professionals. Now Giants of the Earth Heritage Center. [4] | |
2 | Bridge No. 6679 | July 20, 2011 (#11000468) | Minnesota State Highway 76 over the south fork of the Root River 43°44′19″N91°33′52″W / 43.73854°N 91.564327°W | Houston vicinity | 1949 steel cantilever bridge—at 300 feet (91 m) the longest in Minnesota upon completion—exemplifying a major post-war advancement in bridge design. [5] | |
3 | Bridge No. L4013 | July 5, 1990 (#90000976) | Township Road 126 over Riceford Creek 43°37′21″N91°42′21″W / 43.622534°N 91.705822°W | Spring Grove vicinity | 1915 stone arch bridge, the only documented surviving example of what appears to be a standard design introduced by the state highway commission in the early 20th century. [6] | |
4 | Christian Bunge, Jr. Store | April 6, 1982 (#82002964) | Iowa Avenue at Main Street 43°30′28″N91°27′50″W / 43.507737°N 91.463869°W | Eitzen | Eitzen's most prominent commercial building—built in 1890 for the German immigrant merchant who named the town—and a symbol of the area's ethnic heritage. [7] Now a local history museum. [8] | |
5 | Caledonia Commercial Historic District | August 5, 1994 (#94000830) | 101-205 E. Main St. and 101-108 S. Kingston St. 43°38′05″N91°29′47″W / 43.634604°N 91.496431°W | Caledonia | Downtown strip with 10 contributing properties built 1872–1906, significant for its late-19th/early-20th-century commercial architecture and its key role in serving Houston County farmers. [9] | |
6 | Daniel Cameron House | April 6, 1982 (#82002968) | 429-435 South 7th Street 43°49′19″N91°18′28″W / 43.821934°N 91.307698°W | La Crescent | Prominent 1871 house noted for its Italianate architecture and associations with Daniel Cameron (a prosperous farmer and state senator) and his brother Peter (the first settler in the area). [10] | |
7 | Church of the Holy Comforter-Episcopal | June 2, 1970 (#70000298) | Main Street 43°41′39″N91°16′37″W / 43.694216°N 91.277037°W | Brownsville | Brownsville's oldest public building, built in 1855 and used as a town hall, church, and school. [11] | |
8 | Hokah Municipal Building | October 20, 2014 (#14000868) | 57 Main St. 43°45′34″N91°20′46″W / 43.759306°N 91.346028°W | Hokah | 1938 Art Deco hall with government and recreational facilities, a distinctive example of a small-town partnership with the Works Progress Administration for a multipurpose public building. [12] | |
9 | Houston County Courthouse and Jail | March 18, 1983 (#83000905) | Courthouse Square 43°37′58″N91°29′45″W / 43.632775°N 91.495895°W | Caledonia | 1875 sheriff's residence/jail and 1883 courthouse, noted for their association with Houston County's government and for being its leading examples of Italianate and Romanesque Revival architecture, respectively. [13] | |
10 | Jefferson Grain Warehouse | November 25, 1994 (#94001386) | Off Minnesota Highway 26 43°31′00″N91°16′46″W / 43.516685°N 91.279462°W | Jefferson Township | Riverside grain warehouse built in 1868, a rare surviving reminder of a period when wheat was becoming the most important agricultural crop of the Upper Midwest and steamboats were still the leading form of transportation. [14] | |
11 | Johnson Mill | April 6, 1982 (#82002966) | County Roads 5 and 23 43°32′19″N91°24′45″W / 43.538656°N 91.412521°W | Eitzen vicinity | One of Minnesota's few surviving water-powered gristmills, built in 1877 to serve the area's wheat farmers. [15] | |
12 | Portland Prairie Methodist Episcopal Church | April 6, 1982 (#82002967) | Off Minnesota Highway 76 43°31′33″N91°29′28″W / 43.525783°N 91.491099°W | Eitzen vicinity | Rural church built in 1876, noted for its exemplary Eastlake movement architecture and association with the area's settlers from New England. [16] | |
13 | Schech Mill | January 31, 1978 (#78001548) | Off County Road 10 43°40′02″N91°34′50″W / 43.667299°N 91.580685°W | Caledonia vicinity | Rare surviving watermill built 1875–76, and Minnesota's only gristmill to retain its original millstones and operable 1870s-style machinery. [17] Now a museum. [18] | |
14 | David R. and Ellsworth A. Sprague Houses | April 6, 1982 (#82002962) | 204 and 224 West Main Street 43°38′05″N91°29′55″W / 43.634856°N 91.498706°W | Caledonia | Two adjacent houses built between 1900 and 1905 for brothers David R. and Ellsworth A. Sprague, who carried on the commercial and financial work of their father, influential Houston County figure Ara D. Sprague (d. 1909). [19] | |
15 | Spafford Williams Hotel | April 6, 1982 (#82002963) | 137 East Main Street 43°38′05″N91°29′46″W / 43.634741°N 91.496129°W | Caledonia | Hotel established in the early 1870s before the railroad reached Caledonia, representing the city's early commercial activity and architecture. [20] Also a contributing property to the Caledonia Commercial Historic District. [9] | |
16 | Yucatan Fort Site | November 14, 1996 (#96001308) | Address restricted [21] | Yucatan Township | Blufftop earthworks, a largely intact site that helps illustrate the emergence of agriculture and densifying population along Upper Mississippi tributary valleys during the Oneota period. [22] |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Description |
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1 | Eitzen Stone Barn | April 6, 1982 (#82002965) | November 7, 2016 | South of Eitzen | Eitzen vicinity | Barn built of fieldstone sometime in the 1870s or '80s, an unusual vernacular use of stonemasonry and a representative of the area's German immigrants and agricultural focus. [23] Also called the Schroeder Stone Barn. Razed in 2004. | |
2 | Houston County Poor Farm | April 6, 1982 (#82002961) | May 7, 1990 | Co. Hwy. 12 | Caledonia vicinity | 1893 poor farm. [24] Demolished in 1988. [25] |
This is a list of sites in Minnesota which are included in the National Register of Historic Places. There are more than 1,700 properties and historic districts listed on the NRHP; each of Minnesota's 87 counties has at least 2 listings. Twenty-two sites are also National Historic Landmarks.
Schech's Mill is a historic mill in Houston County, Minnesota, United States. It is one of three watermills in Minnesota still operating solely with water power and the only one to have its original millstones. Built by John Blinn in 1876, it was purchased by a Minneapolis miller, Michael Schech who had emigrated from Bavaria, Germany. The mill produced cornmeal, rye buckwheat, wheat flour, graham flour, and whole wheat cereal, which was sold in Caledonia and Houston, Minnesota. Schech's Mill is unique in the state for retaining intact and operable machinery from the 1870s, after the middlings purifier had been introduced but before millstones were supplanted by roller mills. In 1922, a concrete dam was built to replace the original wooden one.
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