National Register of Historic Places listings in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lac qui Parle 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. A supplementary list includes three additional sites that were formerly on the National Register.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 8, 2024.[1]
Current listings
[edit]| [2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed[3] | Location | City or town | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Camp Release State Monument |  |
March 14, 1973 (#73000981) |
About 2 miles southwest of Montevideo off U.S. Route 212 44°55′58″N 95°44′54″W / 44.932861°N 95.748333°W | Montevideo vicinity | Surrender site where prisoners taken by the Dakota people were released at the conclusion of the Dakota War of 1862 and the first military trials were held.[4] Marked with an 1894 monument. |
| 2 | Commercial Bank Building |  |
January 28, 1982 (#82002978) |
6th St. 44°55′46″N 96°03′16″W / 44.929564°N 96.054458°W | Dawson | Well-preserved example of a 19th-century Richardsonian Romanesque bank, built in 1892 for Christopher M. Anderson, an influential early pioneer and civic leader in Lac qui Parle County, and founder of Dawson.[5] The building is currently being used as a museum of the city of Dawson. |
| 3 | Dawson Armory and Community Building |  |
May 18, 1995 (#95000615) |
676 Pine St. 44°55′45″N 96°03′20″W / 44.929175°N 96.055653°W | Dawson | Multipurpose 1923 facility representative of the Minnesota National Guard armories of the 1920s, and the long-serving center of Dawson's civic life, housing the city's offices and principal meeting spaces.[6] The building is currently being used as a public library and apartment building. |
| 4 | Dawson Carnegie Library |  |
August 15, 1985 (#85001770) |
677 Pine St. 44°55′43″N 96°03′20″W / 44.928705°N 96.055688°W | Dawson | Neoclassical Carnegie library built 1917–8, representing the philanthropy of the Carnegie Foundation, the work of regional architect A. H. Foss, and the civic importance of the Dawson Public Library, founded in the 1890s.[7] The building is currently being used as a law office. |
| 5 | Lac qui Parle County Courthouse |  |
August 15, 1985 (#85001759) |
600 6th St. 45°00′54″N 96°11′35″W / 45.015082°N 96.193188°W | Madison | Monumental 1899 courthouse designed by Buechner & Jacobson, and a symbol of Madison's triumph in a protracted 17-year battle for county seat status.[8] |
| 6 | Lac qui Parle Mission Archeological Historic District |  |
March 14, 1973 (#73000971) |
Address restricted 45°01′28″N 95°52′04″W / 45.024365°N 95.86789°W | Montevideo vicinity | Sites of the 1826 Fort Renville trading post and an 1841 mission church (reconstructed in the 1940s), plus associated Euro-American and Dakota habitations. Extends into Chippewa County.[9] |
| 7 | Lac qui Parle State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District |  |
August 19, 1991 (#91001055) |
Off County Highway 33 at the southeastern end of Lac qui Parle 45°01′17″N 95°53′11″W / 45.021389°N 95.886389°W | Montevideo vicinity | Three park facilities built 1938–41, significant as examples of Depression-era federal work relief, the extensive New Deal projects conducted around Lac qui Parle, and National Park Service rustic architecture.[10] |
| 8 | Louisburg School |  |
June 20, 1986 (#86001348) |
1st St. at 3rd Ave. 45°10′06″N 96°10′17″W / 45.168374°N 96.171273°W | Louisburg | One of west-central Minnesota's best examples of a Victorian public school—built in 1911—and an emblem of the efforts in the state's small communities to provide local school facilities.[11] |
| 9 | Madison Carnegie Library |  |
August 23, 1985 (#85001823) |
401 6th Ave. 45°00′45″N 96°11′37″W / 45.012472°N 96.193498°W | Madison | One of west-central Minnesota's earliest and most stylistically unusual Carnegie libraries, built 1905–6, and one of three monumental public buildings forming Madison's distinctive civic campus.[12] |
| 10 | Madison City Hall |  |
August 23, 1985 (#85001820) |
404 6th Ave. 45°00′45″N 96°11′34″W / 45.012553°N 96.192817°W | Madison | Neoclassical city hall and opera house designed by Buechner & Orth and built 1902–3, a long-serving center of civic and social life and a representative of Madison's expansive early-20th-century community planning.[13] |
Former listings
[edit]| [2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hotel Lac qui Parle | December 6, 1990 (#90001820) | August 2, 2000 | 202 6th Ave. | Madison | 1902 hotel.[14] Demolished in 1999.[15][16] | |
| 2 | Andreus Thoreson Farmhouse | November 15, 1974 (#74001030) | February 13, 1991 | Off CR 64 | Madison | Ornate 1899 Queen Anne farmhouse of a prominent settler (1832–1914). Burned down by an accidental fire in 1989.[17] | |
| 3 | Yellow Bank Church Campground Bridge | November 6, 1989 (#89001831) | June 30, 1998 | Twp. Rd. 76 over Yellow Bank River (original location) Current coordinates are 44°37′49″N 92°50′25″W / 44.630266°N 92.840231°W | Odessa | 1893 truss bridge of a unique design by the King Bridge Company.[18] Moved in 1994 to the Little Log House Pioneer Village outside Hastings, Minnesota, to complete a replica of the 1895 Hastings Spiral Bridge.[16][19] |
See also
[edit]- List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Minnesota
References
[edit]- ^ National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved November 8, 2024.
- ^ a b Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
- ^ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
- ^ Mitchell, Diana (1973-01-25). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Camp Release Site". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Nelson, Charles W. (February 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Commercial Bank Building". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Granger, Susan; Kay Grossman (1995-02-15). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Dawson Armory and Community Building". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Granger, Susan (August 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Dawson Carnegie Library". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Granger, Susan (April 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Lac qui Parle County Courthouse". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Mitchell, Diana (1973-01-25). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Lac qui Parle Mission Site" (Document). National Park Service.
- ^ Anderson, Rolf T. (1991-03-25). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Lac qui Parle State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
- ^ Granger, Susan (January 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: District School No. 92". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Granger, Susan (September 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Madison Carnegie Library". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Granger, Susan (October 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Madison City Hall". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Hotel Lac qui Parle (removed)". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
- ^ "Historic hotel demolished in Madison". Minneapolis Star Tribune. November 3, 1999. p. B9. Retrieved July 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3.
- ^ El-Hai, Jack (2000). Lost Minnesota: Stories of Vanished Places. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816635153.
- ^ "Yellow Bank Church Campground Bridge". Minnesota's Historic Bridges. Minnesota Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2013-01-08. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- ^ Lohry, Matthew (2010-06-10). "Yellow Bank Church Campground Bridge". Bridgehunter.com. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
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