Grand Marais in Cook County, Minnesota — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)
Bally Blacksmith Shop
National Register of Historic Places
July 25, 2022
1. Bally Blacksmith Shop Marker
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Notable Buildings. In addition, it is included in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) series list.
Location. 47° 45.041′ N, 90° 19.979′ W. Marker is in Grand Marais, Minnesota, in Cook County. It is at the intersection of Broadway Avenue and First Street, on the right when traveling north on Broadway Avenue. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Grand Marais MN 55604, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is on Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, in the Arrowhead Region, in the Iron Range, and in the North Shore. It is also in the American Midwest, on the Great Lakes, and in the Corn Belt. Globally, it is in North America, in the Great North Woods, on Lake Superiors North Shore, in the Western Hemisphere, in the Western World, and in the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Viceroyalty of New France, Ruperts Land, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Pulpwood Rafting (approx. Ό mile away); The Grand Marais Harbor (approx. Ό mile away); Geology of Minnesota (approx. Ό mile away); a different marker also named Grand Marais Harbor (approx. 0.3 miles away); The Point Interpretive Site (approx. 0.3 miles away); Natural History of the Point (approx. 0.3 miles away); George Morrison (approx. 0.4 miles away); Fish House Replica (approx. half a mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Grand Marais.
Also see . . .
1. The History of Bally Blacksmith Shop - Historic Cook County
this page online
2. History of the Bally Blacksmith Shop - Northern Wilds Magazine. (Submitted on August 5, 2022.)
3. Minnesota SP Bally Blacksmith Shop - National Archives Catalog.
from the Statement of Significance (1985):(Submitted on August 5, 2022.)
Since its founding, the Bally Blacksmith Shop has been the only blacksmith operation in Grand Marais. It has chronicled through its repair work the city's general economic history, progressing from horse-drawn, lumber-camp equipment to motorized commercial fishing rigs to tourists' automobiles and snowmobiles. The building is highly representative of utilitarian, commercial, false-front architecture, which once lined the streets of small-town Minnesota. Equally important, the building preserves in unusually intact condition the interior plan and fixtures of an early, twentieth-century, general-purpose blacksmith shop."
July 25, 2022
2. Bally Blacksmith Shop & Marker, from the southwest
July 25, 2022
3. Bally Blacksmith Shop
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