This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Meeker County, Minnesota.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Meeker 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 10 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another property was once listed but has been removed.
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 | Henry Ames House | August 9, 1984 (#84001623) | 63150 277th Street 45°08′54″N94°29′55″W / 45.148452°N 94.498698°W | Darwin Township | Farmhouse built 1888–89 by prosperous local brickmaker Henry Ames (1846–1928), whose on-site brickyard was Meeker County's leading industry for almost two decades. [4] | |
2 | Bridge No. 90980 | January 9, 1997 (#96001560) | 690th Avenue over the North Fork of the Crow River 45°12′08″N94°22′45″W / 45.202092°N 94.37917°W | Kingston Township | One of Minnesota's earliest steel truss bridges, built in 1899 by the Hewett Bridge Company, an important Minneapolis-based manufacturer at the turn of the 20th century. [5] | |
3 | Brightwood Beach Cottage | May 22, 1978 (#78001551) | South Ripley Drive 45°05′54″N94°32′22″W / 45.098285°N 94.539338°W | Litchfield Township | Octagonal summer cottage built for a lake resort in 1889, Minnesota's only surviving example of the octagon house fad applied to a rental property and the best representative of the short-lived resort's facilities. [6] | |
4 | District No. 48 School | January 25, 1997 (#96001612) | 17757 745th Avenue 45°03′54″N94°15′40″W / 45.064972°N 94.260997°W | Collinwood Township | One-room school active 1870–1961, a remnant of early Euro-American settlement and education in rural Minnesota. [7] | |
5 | Grand Army of the Republic Hall | May 21, 1975 (#75000995) | 370 North Marshall Street 45°07′45″N94°31′35″W / 45.129137°N 94.526322°W | Litchfield | Fortress-like hall built in 1885 by Civil War Union Veterans to house a private reading library and museum; one of the finest buildings associated with influential late 19th-century fraternal society Grand Army of the Republic. [8] Now part of the Meeker County Historical Society Museum. [9] | |
6 | Litchfield Commercial Historic District | March 1, 1996 (#96000192) | North Sibley Avenue between Depot and Third Streets 45°07′39″N94°31′41″W / 45.127404°N 94.528111°W | Litchfield | Unusually intact business district of a small Midwestern agricultural trade center of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with 36 contributing properties mostly built between 1882 and 1940. [10] | |
7 | Litchfield Opera House | October 4, 1984 (#84000019) | 136 North Marshall Avenue 45°07′38″N94°31′35″W / 45.127263°N 94.526311°W | Litchfield | Long-serving community center, built as a theater in 1900 and remodeled in the 1930s to house civic offices and public meeting space. [11] | |
8 | Pipe Lake Fort | June 26, 2003 (#03000576) | Off County Road 1 [12] 44°55′56″N94°35′44″W / 44.932222°N 94.595556°W | Cedar Mills Township | Best preserved example of 12 sod forts built and briefly manned by the U.S. Army across southwest Minnesota in the year after the Dakota War of 1862. [13] | |
9 | Trinity Episcopal Church | June 20, 1975 (#75000996) | 400 North Sibley Avenue 45°07′48″N94°31′40″W / 45.130041°N 94.527775°W | Litchfield | Superlative Carpenter Gothic church built in 1871, believed to have been designed by Richard Upjohn. [14] | |
10 | Universal Laboratories Building | March 1, 1996 (#96000191) | 901 First Street, North 45°05′10″N94°18′28″W / 45.086195°N 94.30779°W | Dassel | Processing facility that became the nation's first and most important domestic supplier of ergot—source of many vital drugs, particularly in wartime—beginning in 1937 just as the impending World War II was cutting off foreign purveyors. [15] Now a museum. [16] |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Description |
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1 | West End Elevator | March 14, 1985 (#85000556) | November 30, 1987 | 4th Street and Atlantic Avenue | Dassel | 1885 grain elevator. [17] Burned down in 1987. [18] [19] |
Additionally, Bridge No. 5388 was originally listed in Meeker County but was relocated to Mower County in 2011. [20]
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