National Register of Historic Places listings in Cherry County, Nebraska

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cherry County, Nebraska. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.[1]

Location of Cherry County in Nebraska

There are 13 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, and one former listing.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 29, 2021.[2]

Current listings
[3] Name on the Register Image Date listed[4] Location City or town Description
1 Bell Bridge
Bell Bridge
 June 29, 1992
(#92000752)		 County road over the Niobrara River, 11.9 miles northeast of Valentine
42°53′42″N 100°19′20″W		 Valentine Bridge built in 1903; one of oldest surviving Pratt through truss bridges in Cherry County and the state; one of only four bridges in the county surviving ice melt flood of 1916.
2 Berry State Aid Bridge
Berry State Aid Bridge
 June 29, 1992
(#92000753)		 County road over the Niobrara River, 10 miles northeast of Valentine
42°54′07″N 100°21′44″W		 Valentine Built 1920-21, replacing one of the four that survived.
3 Borman Bridge
Borman Bridge
 June 29, 1992
(#92000751)		 County road over the Niobrara River, 2.3 miles southeast of Valentine
42°51′07″N 100°31′15″W		 Valentine Pinned Pratt through truss 1916 replacement for one of the bridges that was destroyed in the flood.
4 Brewer Bridge
Brewer Bridge
 June 29, 1992
(#92000754)		 County road over the Niobrara River, 14.7 miles east of Valentine
42°52′34″N 100°15′58″W		 Valentine
5 Bryan Bridge
Bryan Bridge
 June 23, 1988
(#88000912)		 U.S. Route 20
42°49′56″N 100°31′41″W		 Valentine
6 Cherry County Courthouse
Cherry County Courthouse
 January 10, 1990
(#89002229)		 4th and Main Sts.
42°52′34″N 100°33′04″W		 Valentine
7 County Line Bridge July 13, 2018
(#100002660)		 Private Rd. over Niobrara R.
42°50′49″N 100°12′02″W		 Valentine vicinity
8 Dry Valley Church and Cemetery
Dry Valley Church and Cemetery
 July 3, 2007
(#07000660)		 West of Nebraska Highway 97 north of Mullen[5]
42°15′50″N 101°05′10″W		 Mullen
9 Spade Ranch
Spade Ranch
 February 28, 1980
(#80002464)		 Northwest of Ellsworth
42°18′23″N 102°04′47″W		 Ellsworth
10 Twin Bridge
Twin Bridge
 June 29, 1992
(#92000750)		 North Loup River, 7.9 miles northwest of Brownlee
42°20′00″N 100°45′45″W		 Brownlee
11 US Post Office-Valentine
US Post Office-Valentine
 December 13, 1991
(#91001750)		 348 N. Main St.
42°52′32″N 100°33′01″W		 Valentine One of 12 Nebraska post offices featuring a Section of Fine Arts mural.[6] The $700 mural in the post office was both praised and panned when it was originally produced.[7] Now the Valentine Media Center, operated by Educational Service Unit #17.[8]
12 Valentine Public School
Valentine Public School
 June 14, 1984
(#84002454)		 3rd and Macomb Sts.
42°52′31″N 100°32′49″W		 Valentine Now operated as a museum.[9]
13 F.M. Walcott House
F.M. Walcott House
 October 7, 1982
(#82000599)		 431 N. Hall St.
42°52′40″N 100°32′58″W		 Valentine Deemed locally significant architecturally "as an example of a vernacular Neo-Classical Revival dwelling, based upon earlier upright-with-wing or templeform houses common to the Greek Revival style in the eastern and midwestern states" and for association with F. M. Walcott, a county attorney and county judge who had one of the largest legal practices in Nebraska.[10]

Former listings
[3] Name on the Register Image Date listedDate removed Location City or town Summary
1 Adamson Bridge
Adamson Bridge
 June 29, 1992
(#92000749)		March 25, 2019 Nebraska Highway 97 over the Niobrara River, 7.8 miles southwest of Valentine
42°48′26″N 100°40′20″W		 Valentine Located on a different road alignment than the current crossing (a concrete beam bridge built c. 1994[11]), this bridge seems to be gone based on aerial photo view of its coordinates and on photos taken at the site in 2014.

See also

References
  1. The latitude and longitude information provided in this table was derived originally from the National Register Information System, which has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. Some locations in this table may have been corrected to current GPS standards.
  2. "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on January 29, 2021.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Dry Valley Church Archived 2013-05-02 at the Wayback Machine, Hooker County, 2009. Accessed 2013-04-16.
  6. Ahlgren, Carol (August 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form: Nebraska Post Offices Which Contain Section Artwork (1938-1942)" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-01-28. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. David Hendee (November 15, 2012). "The post-Depression post office murals of Nebraska". Omaha World-Herald. Archived from the original on June 30, 2013. (see Valentine mural visible in 4th clickable photo)
  8. "Welcome to Educational Service Unit #17". Archived 2011-10-17 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2012-11-26.
  9. "Museums". Archived 2012-01-27 at the Wayback Machine Valentine Chamber of Commerce. Archived 2012-11-21 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2012-11-26.
  10. Randel Anderson and Joni Gilkerson (August 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: F.M. Walcott House". National Park Service. and accompanying six photos from 1980
  11. "N97 over Niobrara River". Uglybridges.com. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
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