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. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Notable Buildings.
Location. 47° 45.041′ N, 90° 19.979′ W. Marker is in Grand Marais, Minnesota, in Cook County. Marker 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.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Pulpwood Rafting (approx. ¼ mile away); The Grand Marais Harbor (approx. ¼ mile away); Geology of Minnesota (approx. ¼ 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); St. Francis Xavier Church (approx. 1.1 miles away); Chippewa City (approx. 1.1 miles 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. (Submitted on August 5, 2022.)
2. History of the Bally Blacksmith Shop - Northern Wilds Magazine. (Submitted on August 5, 2022.)
3. Minnesota SP Bally Blacksmith Shop - National Archives Catalog
this page online
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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