National Register of Historic Places listings in Nicollet County, Minnesota

Location of Nicollet County in Minnesota

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Nicollet County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Nicollet 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 24 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 May 27, 2016.

Current listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	City or town	Description
1	Broadway Bridge		August 5, 1999 (#99000934)	Minnesota Highway 99 over the Minnesota River	Oshawa Township	1931 through truss bridge. Extends into Le Sueur County.
2	Center Building-Minnesota Hospital for The Insane		July 31, 1986 (#86002117)	Freeman Dr.	St. Peter	1878 Classical Revival building of Minnesota's first mental hospital, designed by Samuel Sloan on the Kirkbride Plan.
3	Church of the Holy Communion-Episcopal		May 19, 1983 (#83000914)	116 N. Minnesota Ave.	St. Peter	1870 Gothic Revival church of Kasota limestone, designed by Henry Martyn Congdon.
4	Eugene Saint Julien Cox House		November 20, 1970 (#70000305)	500 N. Washington Ave.	St. Peter	1871 Gothic/Italianate house of St. Peter's first mayor. Now a Nicollet County Historical Society site.
5	Frederick A. Donahower House		May 19, 1983 (#83000915)	720 S. Minnesota Ave.	St. Peter	c. 1875 brick Italianate house with limestone trim.
6	Fort Ridgely		December 2, 1970 (#70000304)	Minnesota Highway 4	Fairfax	1853 U.S. Army fort built to monitor the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation. Site of the Battle of Fort Ridgely during the Dakota War of 1862. Now a state park and historic site.
7	Fort Ridgely State Park CCC/Rustic Style Historic Resources		October 25, 1989 (#89001668)	Off County Highway 30 northwest of New Ulm	New Ulm	27 Rustic Style park structures built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the mid-1930s.
8	Alexander Harkin Store		June 4, 1973 (#73000989)	County highway 21	New Ulm	1871 rural store and post office, now a Minnesota Historical Society museum with much of the original inventory intact.
9	John A. Johnson House		May 19, 1983 (#83000916)	418 N. 3rd St.	St. Peter	1905 frame house of three-term governor John Albert Johnson.
10	Sarah and Thomas Montgomery House		December 13, 2000 (#00001509)	408 Washington Ave. S	St. Peter	1874 brick Italianate house.
11	Nicollet County Bank		May 19, 1983 (#83000917)	224 S. Minnesota Ave.	St. Peter	1887 brick Queen Anne bank with Kasota limestone trim. Also a contributing property to the St. Peter Commercial Historic District.
12	Nicollet County Courthouse and Jail		September 6, 2002 (#02000939)	501 S, Minnesota Ave.	St. Peter	1881 brick Romanesque Revival courthouse designed by Edward Bassford, and 1907 brick Queen Anne jailhouse.
13	Nicollet Hotel		May 12, 1975 (#75000998)	Minnesota Ave. at Park Row	St. Peter	1874 brick Italianate hotel designed by Edward Bassford.
14	Norseland General Store		May 19, 1983 (#83000918)	Minnesota Highway 22	Lake Prairie Township	c. 1900 rural store.
15	North Mankato Public School		January 27, 1983 (#83000919)	442 Belgrade Ave.	North Mankato	1890 brick Queen Anne school with a 1904 addition.
16	Old Main, Gustavus Adolphus College		May 12, 1976 (#76001065)	Gustavus Adolphus College campus	St. Peter	1876 Italianate campus building of Kasota limestone, designed by Edward Bassford.
17	Emily and Stephen Schumacher House		December 13, 2000 (#00001507)	202 3rd St., N.	St. Peter	1888 brick Queen Anne house.
18	St. Peter Armory		January 9, 1997 (#96001558)	419 S. Minnesota Ave.	St. Peter	1913 brick Gothic Revival armory with Kasota limestone trim, first state-owned National Guard armory in Minnesota.
19	St. Peter Carnegie Library		May 19, 1983 (#83000920)	429 S. Minnesota Ave.	St. Peter	1904 Classical Revival Carnegie library.
20	St. Peter Commercial Historic District		January 12, 2001 (#00001610)	Minnesota Ave. between Broadway and Grace Sts.	St. Peter	Late-19th and early-20th-century commercial buildings, largely of brick with stone trim.
21	William E. Stewart House		November 8, 1984 (#84000223)	733 Range St.	North Mankato	1910 brick house and outbuildings built adjacent to owner's brickyard.
22	Henry A. Swift House		May 19, 1983 (#83000921)	820 S. Minnesota Ave.	St. Peter	1858 Federal/Italianate house of politician Henry Adoniram Swift.
23	Traverse des Sioux		March 20, 1973 (#73000990)	2 miles north of St. Peter off U.S. Route 169	St. Peter	An important river crossing from prehistory into the fur trade era, and site of U.S.–Dakota negotiations for the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux. Now a state and Nicollet County Historical Society site.
24	Union Presbyterian Church		May 19, 1983 (#83000922)	311 W. Locust St.	St. Peter	1872 Gothic Revival church of Kasota limestone.

Former listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Date removed	Location	City or town	Summary
1	Bridge No. 6422-Saint Peter	Upload image	August 5, 1999 (#99000933)	August 8, 2003	MN 99 over Washington Avenue	St. Peter	1948 deck girder bridge of cantilevered concrete, first of its kind in Minnesota. Demolished in 2001.
2	St. Peter Central School		October 29, 1980 (#80002092)	October 5, 2000	300 S. 5th St.	St. Peter	Destroyed in the 1998 Comfrey – St. Peter tornado outbreak. Original façade worked into Central Square Apartments on the same site.

See also

• List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Minnesota

External links

• Minnesota National Register Properties Database—Minnesota Historical Society