National Register of Historic Places listings in Aitkin County, Minnesota
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Aitkin County, Minnesota.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Aitkin 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.
Historic resources in Aitkin County were identified in a "Multiple Resources Area" study, leading to several properties being listed on the NRHP.[1]
There are 11 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
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- This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted May 27, 2016.[2]
Current listings
[3] | Name on the Register[4] | Image | Date listed[5] | Location | City or town | Description |
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1 | Aitkin Carnegie Library |
(#82002924) |
121 2nd St., NW. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Aitkin | Well-preserved example of a Carnegie library—built 1911—and a prominent local example of Neoclassical architecture.[6] | |
2 | Aitkin County Courthouse and Jail |
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(#82002923) |
209 and 217 2nd St., NW. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Aitkin | Long-serving seat of Aitkin County government, consisting of a 1915 jail and a 1920 courthouse, the latter exemplifying the second-generation Beaux-Arts courthouses built around Minnesota in the early 20th century.[7] |
3 | ANDY GIBSON (shipwreck) | Upload image |
(#12000558) |
Mississippi River, 0.75 miles (1.21 km) downstream from County Highway 1 Bridge[8] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Aitkin vicinity | Rare and well-preserved remains of a Mississippi River steamboat, launched in 1884 to serve the headwaters region. Unique among U.S. shipwrecks for still resting on its 1894 drydock cradle.[8] |
4 | Arthyde Stone House |
(#82002930) |
County Road 27 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Arthyde | Fieldstone bungalow built c. 1922 in a short-lived settlement, a locally prominent reminder of the failed townsite speculation common to northern Minnesota's cutover land during the Roaring Twenties.[9] | |
5 | Bethlehem Lutheran Church |
(#82002928) |
Off County Highway 12 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Aitkin vicinity | 1897 church representative of the Swedish American population that predominated southwest Aitkin County.[10] | |
6 | Patrick Casey House |
(#82002925) |
4th St., SE. and 2nd Ave. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Aitkin | 1901 Queen Anne/Classical Revival house of a prominent local businessman (1849–1910) behind the Potter/Casey Company. Also one of northern Minnesota's few architecturally distinctive residences outside of Duluth and the Iron Range cities.[11] | |
7 | Malmo Mounds and Village Site |
(#75000974) |
Northwestern quarter of Section 32, Township 45 North, Range 25 West[12] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
McGrath vicinity | c. 200 BCE–400 CE mound site.[13] | |
8 | National Woodenware Company Superintendent's Residence | Upload image |
(#82002929) |
SW. Elm St. and Ione Ave. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Hill City | 1910 manager's housing, chief remnant of an Armour and Company subsidiary that was Hill City's principal employer and developer 1910–1928.[14] |
9 | Northern Pacific Depot |
(#82002926) |
20 Pacific St., SW. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Aitkin | Railway station built 1915–16, symbolizing the importance of the railroad in Aitkin's founding and development.[15] Now houses an Aitkin County Historical Society museum.[16] | |
10 | Potter/Casey Company Building |
(#82002927) |
E. Minnesota Ave. between 1st and 2nd Sts., NW. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Aitkin | 1902 commercial building constructed for Aitkin County's leading mercantile business.[17] | |
11 | Savanna Portage |
(#73000963) |
Off County Highway 5 in Savanna Portage State Park Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
McGregor vicinity | Difficult but vital 6-mile (9.7 km) portage linking the Great Lakes and Mississippi basins, blazed by Native Americans and used into the fur trade and early settlement eras.[18] |
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Minnesota
References
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- ↑ "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on May 27, 2016.
- ↑ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
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- ↑ 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.
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- ↑ Aufderheide, Arthur C., et al. "Health, Demography, and Archaeology of Mille Lacs Native American Mortuary Populations". Plains Anthropologist 39.149 (1994): 251-375: 273.
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to National Register of Historic Places in Aitkin County, Minnesota. |
- Minnesota National Register Properties Database—Minnesota Historical Society