List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota

This complete list of Minnesota National Historic Landmarks names Minnesota National Historic Landmarks that are under the supervision of the National Park Service . The listed objects, districts, buildings or similar structures are of essential national importance. The state of Minnesota has 25 such landmarks that showcase the legacy of North America's Indians, as well as the industrial revolution , logging , mining , military history , society, and politics of the state.

National Historic Landmarks

	Landmark name	image	year	place	county	description
1	Christ Church Lutheran		2009	Minneapolis	Hennepin	The Christ Church Lutheran in Minneapolis is of national importance because it is one of the most recognized works of Eliel Saarinen . Saarinen was one of the leading architects of the modern age and a driving force in the planning of such church structures in the United States. His son Eero Saarinen planned the extension added in 1962, thus completing his father's overall planning concept.
2	F. Scott Fitzgerald House		1971	Saint Paul 44 ° 56 ′ 29 ″  N , 93 ° 7 ′ 29 ″  W.	Ramsey	Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) wrote several stories and wrote his first novel This Side of Paradise in the Victorian row house on Summit Avenue in Saint Paul . The novels The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby quickly followed.
3	Grand Mound		2011	International Falls	Koochiching
4th	Fort Snelling		1960	Minneapolis 44 ° 53 ′ 34 "  N , 93 ° 10 ′ 50"  W.	Hennepin	Fort Snelling , originally known as Fort St. Anthony , is a former military fort at the mouth of the Minnesota River and the Mississippi River in Hennepin County. It is part of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area .
5	James J. Hill House		1961	Saint Paul 44 ° 56 ′ 42.4 "  N , 93 ° 6 ′ 31.7"  W.	Ramsey	The James J. Hill House in Saint Paul was built by the railroad magnate James J. Hill . The house was completed in 1891 and is located on the east end of Summit Avenue, near the Cathedral of Saint Paul . With a living space of 3,344 square feet, the house is the largest residence in the state.
6th	Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine		1966	Hibbing 47 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  N , 92 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  W.	St. Louis	The Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine in Hibbing is the largest open cast iron ore mine in the world. Located in the Mesabi Range, the mine provided a quarter of all iron ore mined in the United States at its peak production during the First and Second World Wars. The area within the mountain range was explored in 1893-1894 shortly after the Mountain Iron Mine was established in 1892. Initially, the mine was operated with pits, but later converted into an open pit due to the soft, flat surface layers. Many smaller open pits in the area soon grew into one large mine and the merger of individual companies resulted in the formation of US Steel in 1901 . The growth in mining also had an impact on the town of Hibbing, which was relocated as a result.
7th	Kathio Historic District		1964	Vineland 46 ° 9 ′ 49 "  N , 93 ° 45 ′ 27"  W.	Mille Lacs	The district receives traces of settlement and groups of burial mounds, which are believed to date from the time between 3000 BC. Chr. And about 1750 and illustrate the Indian culture de Sioux and the relationships between them and the Ojibwe . The park contains 19 identified archaeological digs, making it one of Minnesota's most important archaeological collections. The earliest discovery sites date from archaic times and show evidence of the production of copper tools. The Sioux lived in the area until roughly the 18th century, when many Sioux groups moved south to the prairies and rivers of southern Minnesota. At the same time, the Ojibwe Indians were migrating from the east. Oral tradition of the Ojibwe reports that they successfully fought with the Sioux for control of the area, but no archaeological evidence was found. At the time of first contact in the 1850s, woodcutters came to the area. Over the next fifty years large quantities of trees were felled and the logs floated to the sawmills via the Rum River or Mille Lacs Lake .
8th	Oliver H. Kelley Homestead		1966	Elk River 45 ° 18 ′ 49 "  N , 93 ° 34 ′ 53"  W.	Sherburne	The Oliver H. Kelley Homestead is the site of a historic farm that once belonged to Oliver Hudson Kelley , one of the founders of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry . The farm is operated as an open air museum by the Minnesota Historical Society . Oliver Kelley moved to Minnesota in 1849, the year the Minnesota Area was formed. Although he knew little about agriculture, he taught himself farming through agricultural publications and correspondence with other scientifically minded farmers. He became an expert on farming in Minnesota and figured out how to guard against bad weather, debt, insect infestations, and crop failures that can threaten a farmer's livelihood.
9	Frank B. Kellogg House		1976	Saint Paul 44 ° 56 '14.1 "  N , 93 ° 7' 35.8"  W.	Ramsey	From 1889 until his death in 1937, the house was the residence of the lawyer, senator and diplomat Frank B. Kellogg (1856-1937). He had negotiated the Briand-Kellogg Pact in 1928 as Secretary of State (1925-29) , for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize and American foreign policy was turned away from interventionism.
10	Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home		1968	Sauk Center 45 ° 44 ′ 13.7 "  N , 94 ° 57 ′ 25.1"  W.	Stearns	Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), the first American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1930), lived in Sauk Center between 1885 and 1902 . His novel Main street (1920) was based in part on his impressions of the city. NRHP 68000027
11	Charles A. Lindbergh House and Park		1970	Little Falls 45 ° 57 ′ 26.8 "  N , 94 ° 23 ′ 23.2"  W.	Morrison	The park was once the farm of Congressman Charles August Lindbergh and his son Charles Lindbergh , the famous aviator. Her home, which was renovated in 1906, and two other farm buildings are within the boundaries of the park. The house and an accompanying museum are opened to the public through the Minnesota Historical Society . Three buildings and three other structures erected by the Works Progress Administration during the 1930s are on the National Register of Historic Places . This includes a water tower and a picnic area, which are built from local stones and logs and have not changed much since then.
12	Mountain Iron Mine		1968	Mountain Iron	St. Louis	The mine was discovered in 1890 and iron ore was mined for the first time in 1892. The production of the mine leads to the realization that the Mesabi Range had the largest deposits of iron ore in the world, making Minnesota's mining industry the primary supplier of iron ore in the United States. NRHP 68000052
13	National Farmer's Bank of Owatonna		1976	Owatonna 44 ° 5 '6.4 "  N , 93 ° 13' 32.7"  W.	Steele	The National Farmers' Bank in Owatonna , Minnesota is a bank building designed by Louis Sullivan that includes decorative elements by George Elmslie . It was built in 1908 and was Sullivan's first so-called “jewel box”. The building is made of red bricks and has green glazed terra cotta strips and two large arches. The interior includes a stained glass window designed by Louis J. Millet , a mural by Oskar Gross and a cast iron chandelier by William Winslow.
14th	Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator		1978	St. Louis Park 44 ° 56 ′ 33 "  N , 93 ° 20 ′ 43"  W.	Hennepin	The Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator was built from 1899 to 1900 and was the first concrete round wheat silo in the United States. It is noteworthy for showing the suitability of concrete for building wheat silos. Earlier silos were made of wood, making them expensive and prone to fire. The structure stands next to the route of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway .
15th	Pillsbury A Mill		1966	Minneapolis 44 ° 59 '2.2 "  N , 93 ° 15" 9.6 "  W.	Hennepin	The Pillsbury A Mill , which at the Saint Anthony cases of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis is located, was the largest flour mill in the world for more than four decades. It was completed in 1881 and was owned by Pillsbury . Its two direct drive water wheels were the most powerful ever constructed. Each of them produced an output of 1200 horsepower (895 kW ). The mill is still on the east bank of the river, but ceased operations in 2003.
16	Plummer Building		1969	Rochester 44 ° 1 '18 "  N , 92 ° 27' 56"  W.	Olmsted	The Plummer Building is an architecturally significant part of the Mayo Clinic . It was originally referred to as the 1929 building , but then renamed after the Mayo Clinic's chief architect and co-founder, Henry Stanley Plummer . From the time of its construction in 1929 to the completion of the nearby Gonda Building in 2001, the building was the tallest structure in Rochester .
17th	Rabideau CCC Camp		2006	Chippewa National Forest 47 ° 38 ′ 24 "  N , 94 ° 32 ′ 55"  W.	Beltrami	The Rabideau CCC camp was a camp of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota . Founded in 1935 as a project under Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal , the camp was one of 2,650 in the United States. It housed around 300 men between the ages of 17 and 21. Like most of the other CCC camps, the Rabideau Camp was also designed to provide employment for those who had become unemployed due to the global economic crisis . Most of the camp residents came from the north of the state and worked on projects within the Chippewa National Forest, such as building roads and other facilities, surveying, protecting game, and other forestry activities .
18th	OE Rolvaag House		1969	Northfield 44 ° 27 ′ 47.5 "  N , 93 ° 10 ′ 20"  W.	Rice	From 1912 until his death, this was the residence of Ole Edvart Rølvaag (1876-1931), a Norwegian immigrant and the first American author to write detailed descriptions of the psychological effects of pioneering life on the farmer frontier. His famous trilogy - Giants in the Earth (1927), Peder Victorious (1928), and Their Father's God (1931) - stand out in Minnesota's literature as the most perfected and haunting assessments of the concessions immigrants have had to make for their peace and prosperity found in the Midwest . NRHP 69000078
19th	St. Croix Recreational Demonstration Area		1997	Hinckley 46 ° 0 ′ 41 "  N , 92 ° 56 ′ 40"  W.	Pine	The land in the area was used for forestry between the mid-19th century and around 1915. When that era was over, the land attracted farmers, but the land was insufficiently productive to support them. 18,000 acres of farmland were bought in 1934 and the St. Croix Recreational Demonstration Area opened the following year . Camps, roads, and campsites have been established under the direction of the National Park Service , the Works Progress Administration, and the Civilian Conservation Corps . The area became St. Croix State Park in 1943 . Many of the structures in the park are on the National Register of Historic Places , and the entire district was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997 .
20th	St. Croix Boom Site		1966	Stillwater 45 ° 4 ′ 40.8 "  N , 92 ° 47 ′ 52.8"  W.	Washington	The St. Croix Boom Site is on the St. Croix River above Stillwater . This is a facility founded by Stillwater lumberjack barons, including Isaac Staples , in 1856 after the collapse of the original St. Croix Boom Company . This had operated a little further upstream, near Marine on St. Croix . Staples and others bought the Boom Company and moved it a little further downstream. The cut wood was provided with the branding of the weft entity and then hinabgeflößt the river, to the boom ( boom ) to where the strains by the fire signs and were delivered to sawmills, Stillwater.
21st	Soudan Iron Mine		1966	Tower 47 ° 51 ′ 28.5 ″  N , 92 ° 17 ′ 58.6 ″  W.	St. Louis	The Soudan Underground Mine is the oldest, deepest and formerly ore- richest mine for iron ore in Minnesota and is now home to the Soudan Underground Laboratory . At the end of the 19th century, the prospectors in northern Minnesota had found extraordinarily rich veins of hematite , the iron content of which was often more than 65%. An open pit was put into operation in 1882 and converted into a mine at the turn of the century for safety reasons. From 1901 until the end of active mining in 1962, the Soudan Mine belonged to the United States Steel Corporation owned company Oliver Iron Mining . In 1912 the main shaft was driven to a depth of 381 m and in the year of closure it was Level 27 713.5 m below the surface. US Steel donated the mine to the state of Minnesota for educational purposes.
22nd	Split Rock Light Station		2011	Beaver Bay	St. Louis
23	Thorstein Veblen Farmstead		1981	Nerstrand	Rice	Thorstein B. Veblen (1857–1929), economist and social scientist and critic of American culture, lived on this farm in his youth and returned frequently as an adult. Veblen was raised strictly on agriculture and was considered one of the most creative and original thought leaders in the United States. NRHP 75001024
24	Andrew John Volstead House		1974	Granite Falls 44 ° 48 ′ 33.9 ″  N , 95 ° 32 ′ 24.1 ″  W.	Yellow Medicine	From 1894 to 1930 this was the home of Andrew Volstead (1860-1947), the man who started Prohibition . Volstead was a member of the House of Representatives from 1903 to 1923 and drafted the National Prohibition Enforcement Act , which became known as the Volstead Act , in 1919 . NRHP 74001046
25th	Washburn A Mill		1983	Minneapolis 44 ° 58 ′ 44 ″  N , 93 ° 15 ′ 25 ″  W.	Hennepin	The Washburn A Mill complex was the second largest flour mill in Minneapolis . The original mill was built in 1874 by Cadwallader C. Washburn , but was destroyed by an explosion in 1878. The mill was later rebuilt and for nearly five decades the Washburn A Mill was the most advanced and largest mill in the world. It is now closed and now serves as a historical museum of the milling industry under the name Mill City Museum .

Other protected areas in the National Park System in Minnesota

National Historic Sites, National Historic Parks, National Memorials and some other areas are historical landmarks of national importance, which were often already protected before the start of the National Historic Landmark Program in 1960 and are usually not automatically listed as NHL. Minnesota has two such protected areas that are listed as National Monument.

	Name of the monument	image	year	place	county	description
1	Grand Portage National Monument		January 27, 1960	Grand Portage 47 ° 57 ′ 44 ″  N , 89 ° 41 ′ 5 ″  W.	cook	Located in the boreal coniferous forests on the north shore of Lake Superior in northeast Minnesota, Grand Portage National Monument is a thriving center of the fur trade and legacy of the Anishinabe (Ojibwe).
2	Pipestone National Monument		August 25, 1937	Pipestone 44 ° 0 ′ 48 ″  N , 96 ° 19 ′ 31 ″  W.	Pipestone	The Pipestone National Monument is a traditional Catlinit Mine just north of Pipestone . This clay was and is used for the production of peace pipes and is essential for the culture of the traditional prairie Indians. The pits are sacred to the Dakota - Sioux (Lakota) and were neutral areas where all tribes could extract clay for the ceremonial pipes.

See also

• National Historic Landmark
• National Register of Historic Places
• National Monuments in the United States
• Monument protection

Web links

Commons : National Historic Landmarks of Minnesota  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• National Historic Landmark Program of the National Park Service

Individual evidence

1. ^ National Park Service : National Historic Landmarks Program: Questions and Answers . Retrieved September 21, 2007.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota . National Park Service , accessed October 26, 2017.
3. ^ ^{A b} National Park Service : National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database . Archived from the original on June 6, 2004. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 21, 2008. 
4. ^ ^{A b} National Park Service : National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database . Archived from the original on June 6, 2004. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 10, 2011. 
5. ↑ Interior Secretary Kempthorne Designates 9 National Historic Landmarks in 9 States . In: News Release . United States Department of the Interior . January 16, 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2009.
6. ^ F. Scott Fitzgerald House . In: National Historic Landmarks Program . National Park Service. Archived from the original on March 15, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 10, 2007. 
7. ^ About the Kelley Farm . In: Minnesota Historic Sites: Oliver H. Kelley Farm . Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved February 23, 2007.
8. ^ Frank B. Kellogg House . In: National Historic Landmarks Program . National Park Service. Archived from the original on March 15, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 10, 2007. 
9. ^ Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home . In: National Historic Landmarks Program . National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 10, 2011. 
10. ↑ Mountain Iron Mine . In: National Historic Landmarks Program . National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 10, 2011. 
11. ↑ Shannon M. Pennefeather: Mill City: A Visual History of the Minneapolis Mill District . Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota 2003.
12. ↑ Rabideau CCC Camp Restoration . Retrieved December 24, 2006.
13. ^ OE Rolvaag House . In: National Historic Landmarks Program . National Park Service. Archived from the original on March 15, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 10, 2007. 
14. ^ Thorstein Veblen Farmstead . In: National Historic Landmarks Program . National Park Service. Archived from the original on March 15, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 10, 2007. 
15. ^ Andrew J. Volstead House . In: National Historic Landmarks Program . National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 10, 2011. 
16. ↑ National Park Service: National Register Redbook: Pipestone National Monument (PDF) Archived from the original on March 24, 2009. Retrieved on August 21, 2008.