National Register of Historic Places listings in Le Sueur County, Minnesota
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Le Sueur County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Le Sueur 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 26 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. A supplementary list includes two additional sites that were formerly on the National Register.
- This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 5, 2021.[1]
Current listings
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed[3] | Location | City or town | Description |
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1 | John R. Andrews House | October 10, 1978 (#78003123) |
County Highway 19 44°17′07″N 93°54′33″W |
Kasota | House purchased in 1874 by the founder of the Andrews Opera Company, a nationally famous, family-based troupe that toured widely in the late 19th century.[4] Likely demolished (see talk page). | |
2 | Bridge No. 4846 | February 17, 1981 (#81000681) |
County Highway 102 over Minnesota Highway 22 (original location) Current coordinates are 44°15′59″N 93°53′54″W |
Kasota | Minnesota's oldest surviving Pratt truss bridge, built in 1875 and relocated in 1929.[5] Moved again in 1984; now carries a trail in Lake Washington County Park.[6] | |
3 | Broadway Bridge | August 5, 1999 (#99000934) |
Minnesota Highway 99 over the Minnesota River 44°19′29″N 93°57′11″W |
Ottawa Township | 1931 steel highway bridge built with two asymmetrical trusses disguised by ornamental members to span a challenging site at a river bend.[7] Extends into Nicollet County. | |
4 | Carson H. Cosgrove House | March 15, 1982 (#82004694) |
228 South Second Street 44°27′32″N 93°54′58″W |
Le Sueur | Elaborate and well-preserved house built circa 1895 for Carson Nesbit Cosgrove (1853–1936), a founder of the canned food company that grew into Green Giant.[8] | |
5 | Arthur Dehn House | November 19, 1982 (#82000561) |
Herbert Street 44°13′26″N 93°34′29″W |
Waterville | Family home from 1914 to the 1960s of noted artist Adolf Dehn (1895–1968).[9] Listed under his father's name as Adolf was never a permanent resident. Likely demolished (see talk page). | |
6 | Dodd Road Discontiguous District | June 12, 2003 (#03000520) |
County Road 148 west of Cleveland; County Road 136 from MN 13 to Cordova 44°19′39″N 93°37′47″W |
Cleveland and Kilkenny vicinities | Two segments of a privately funded road built between Mendota and St. Peter in 1853, a key transportation artery in early south-central Minnesota. A third segment lies in Rice County.[10] | |
7 | Elysian Public School | February 17, 1981 (#81000677) |
Northwest corner of NE Frank Avenue and NE Second Street 44°12′03″N 93°40′26″W |
Elysian | Prominent 1895 school, a well-preserved example of Le Sueur County's turn-of-the-20th-century educational facilities. Now a museum.[11] | |
8 | First National Bank | March 15, 1982 (#82004703) |
112 East Main 44°32′36″N 93°34′35″W |
New Prague | 1922 bank with a glazed terracotta façade, nominated as the area's most architecturally significant commercial building.[12] | |
9 | Geldner Sawmill | June 11, 1975 (#75000991) |
County Highway 13 44°16′29″N 93°44′38″W |
Cleveland vicinity | Le Sueur County's last surviving early sawmill, built circa 1860 and moved to its current location in 1876.[13] | |
10 | German Evangelical Salem Church | March 15, 1982 (#82004696) |
County Road 156 44°29′08″N 93°47′19″W |
Le Sueur vicinity | Rare surviving example of an early rural church built to anchor an ethnic farming community, constructed in 1870 to serve the German immigrants who settled northwest Le Sueur County.[14] | |
11 | Hilltop Hall | March 15, 1982 (#82004701) |
206 North First Street 44°26′25″N 93°34′53″W |
Montgomery | Well-preserved example of the commercial buildings erected in the area's late-19th-century rail towns; constructed circa 1892 with an upper-floor event hall.[15] | |
12 | Hotel Broz | March 15, 1982 (#82004704) |
212 West Main 44°32′36″N 93°34′49″W |
New Prague | 1898 hotel exemplifying the first-class accommodations that served to increase lodging, social space, and civic pride in the region's growing 19th-century communities.[16] | |
13 | Kasota Township Hall | February 17, 1981 (#81000679) |
Hill and Rice Streets 44°17′32″N 93°57′55″W |
Kasota | Unusual example of a late-19th-century township hall, constructed in 1888 as a substantial, purpose-built structure in a population center rather than the typical approach of occupying an old schoolhouse or other existing structure in the countryside.[17] | |
14 | Kasota Village Hall | February 17, 1981 (#81000680) |
Cherry and Webster Streets 44°17′29″N 93°58′00″W |
Kasota | 1898 village hall built during Kasota's peak as a major quarrying center, and representative of Minnesota's late-19th/early-20th-century municipal architecture.[18] | |
15 | Le Sueur County Courthouse and Jail | February 17, 1981 (#81000682) |
88 South Park Avenue and 130 South Park Avenue 44°23′18″N 93°43′56″W |
Le Center | 1896 courthouse and 1914 jail, local landmarks representative of Le Sueur County's government and the origin of Le Center as a purpose-built county seat.[19] | |
16 | Dr. William W. Mayo House | November 25, 1969 (#69000074) |
118 North Main Street 44°27′44″N 93°54′54″W |
Le Sueur | 1859 home and clinic of Dr. William Worrall Mayo (1819–1911), who went on to found the Mayo Clinic with his sons.[20] Now a Minnesota Historical Society museum.[21] | |
17 | Methodist Episcopal Church | March 15, 1982 (#82004697) |
Liberty and Whittier Streets 44°23′03″N 93°56′53″W |
Ottawa | 1859 limestone Greek Revival church.[22] Also known as the Little Stone Church. | |
18 | Needham-Hayes House | March 15, 1982 (#82004698) |
Off Railroad Street 44°22′57″N 93°56′38″W |
Le Sueur | Unusually large and eclectically designed house built circa 1870 for early settler Charles Needham, who became a prosperous businessman and leading local citizen.[23] | |
19 | Ottawa Township Hall | March 15, 1982 (#82004705) |
Buchanan and Bryant Streets 44°23′00″N 93°56′47″W |
Ottawa | 1860 limestone Greek Revival municipal hall.[24] | |
20 | John Rinshed House | March 15, 1982 (#82004707) |
Sumner and Whittier Streets 44°22′56″N 93°56′53″W |
Ottawa | 1870 limestone house.[25] | |
21 | Charles Schwartz House and Barn | March 15, 1982 (#82004708) |
Off County Highway 23 44°23′36″N 93°56′53″W |
Ottawa | 1870 limestone house and barn.[26] | |
22 | Smith-Cosgrove House | March 15, 1982 (#82004700) |
228 South Main Street 44°27′34″N 93°55′02″W |
Le Sueur | One of Le Sueur County's most architecturally distinctive residences, a Second Empire house built circa 1878 for banker Edson Smith and later owned by merchant James A. Cosgrove, two prominent local businessmen.[27] | |
23 | George W. Taylor House | September 5, 1975 (#75000992) |
103 South Second Street 44°27′38″N 93°54′51″W |
Le Sueur | One of Minnesota's finest surviving Eastlake Movement houses, built in 1890 for prominent businessman George W. Taylor (b. 1841).[28] | |
24 | Trinity Chapel-Episcopal | March 15, 1982 (#82004695) |
Sumner and Exchange Streets 44°22′56″N 93°56′58″W |
Ottawa | 1861 limestone Gothic Revival chapel.[29] | |
25 | Union Hotel | March 15, 1982 (#82004709) |
201 Paquin Street, East 44°13′05″N 93°34′03″W |
Waterville | 1888 hotel expanded circa 1895, associated with Watertown's key period of growth as a rail-served business and vacation destination.[30] | |
26 | Westerman Lumber Office and House | March 15, 1982 (#82004702) |
201 South First Street 44°26′15″N 93°34′51″W |
Montgomery | Headquarters of a major regional lumber company founded in 1889, with an 1895 residential addition and cladding representative of the area's 19th-century brick buildings.[31] |
Former listings
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Summary |
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1 | Elysian Water Tower | February 17, 1981 (#81000678) | April 26, 1993 | Frank Street |
Elysian | 1895 water tower. Demolished in 1989 to make way for a modern replacement.[32] | |
2 | David Patten Farmhouse | March 15, 1982 (#82004706) | January 15, 2003 | Liberty Street |
Ottawa | 1863 limestone house.[33] Demolished in 2002.[34] |
See also
References
- "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on February 5, 2021.
- 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.
- Spaeth, Lynne VanBrocklin (1977-06-22). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Andrews House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-04-15. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Bridge #4846(1)". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-04-09. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Gardner, Denis (2008). Wood, Concrete, Stone, and Steel: Minnesota's Historic Bridges. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 185. ISBN 9780816646661.
- Hess, Jeffrey A. (September 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Broadway Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-04-09. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Cosgrove, C.N., House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-04-09. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Dehn House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-04-09. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Godfrey, Anthony (2002-09-30). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Dodd Road" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2013-08-21. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Elysian Public School". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-04-01. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: First National Bank". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-04-01. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Nelson, Charles W. (1975-02-24). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Geldner Sawmill". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-04-01. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: German Evangelical Salem Church". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-31. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Hilltop Hall". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-31. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Hotel Broz". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-31. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Kasota Town Hall". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-31. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Kasota Village Hall". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-31. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: LeSueur County Courthouse and Jail". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-31. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Grossman, John F. (1969-07-30). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: The Mayo (Dr. William W.) House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-29. Cite journal requires
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(help) - "W.W. Mayo House". Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- "Ottawa Stone Buildings: Methodist Episcopal Church". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Archived from the original on 2019-06-18.
- Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Needham-Hayes House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-29. Cite journal requires
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(help) - "Ottawa Stone Buildings: Ottawa Township Hall". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Archived from the original on 2019-06-18.
- "Ottawa Stone Buildings: Rinshed, John, House". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Archived from the original on 2019-06-18.
- "Ottawa Stone Buildings: Schwartz, Charles, House and Barn". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Archived from the original on 2019-06-18.
- Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Smith-Cosgrove House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-29. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Nelson, Charles W. (1975-05-02). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Taylor, George W., House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-29. Cite journal requires
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(help) - "Ottawa Stone Buildings: Trinity Chapel (Episcopal)". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Archived from the original on 2019-06-18.
- Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Union Hotel". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-29. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Westerman Lumber Office and House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-29. Cite journal requires
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(help) - El-Hai, Jack (2000). Lost Minnesota: Stories of Vanished Places. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816635153.
- "Ottawa Stone Buildings: David Patten, House (removed)". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Archived from the original on 2019-06-18.
- "Changes to the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota, 2003-2010". Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2013-03-01.
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