101 ► Minnesota, Olmsted County, Rochester — The Plummer Building — The Mayo Clinic —

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m147305) HM

102 ► Minnesota, Olmsted County, Rochester — The Rochester Armory Building —

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m147307) HM

103 ► Minnesota, Olmsted County, Rochester — The William Dee Log Cabin — A Labor of Love —

This humble little cabin was constructed in the summer of 1862 by Irish immigrant William Dee and a group of neighbors. The cabin was built on lot six of block four of the Head and McMahon's Addition, now West 6th Street. William's wife, Bridget, . . . — — Map (db m178996) HM

104 ► Minnesota, Pennington County, Thief River Falls — Carnegie Library — 1914 —

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m206263) HM

105 ► Minnesota, Pine County, Pine City — Do-It-Yourself Building — North West Company Fur Post —

Sayer's crew of eight voyageurs built the North West Company Fur Post in six weeks—keeping just ahead of the approaching winter. The post was built from materials at hand: white pine for the buildings and stockade, and clay to chink the . . . — — Map (db m206258) HM

106 ► Minnesota, Pine County, Sandstone — Forming Blocks — Discover the Banning Quarry —

This was the stone cutters' area. Train cars brought large stones here to be split and shaped. One splitter supplied three stone cutters. Stone cutters shaped the blocks into curbing, building stones or paving blocks. Cities across the country still . . . — — Map (db m204503) HM

107 ► Minnesota, Polk County, Crookston — Carnegie Library — 1907 —

Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m207166) HM

108 ► Minnesota, Ramsey County, Saint Paul, Cathedral Hill — James J. Hill / The James J. Hill House —

James J. Hill "Most men who have really lived here have had, in some shape, their great adventure. This railway is mine," wrote James J. Hill to the Great Northern Railway employees upon his retirement in 1912. Throughout his long working . . . — — Map (db m231549) HM

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109 ► Minnesota, Ramsey County, Saint Paul, Cathedral Hill — St. Joseph's Academy —

St. Joseph's Academy, the oldest Catholic educational institution in Minnesota, was founded in 1851 by four Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, two hundred years after the order's founding in Le Puy, France. Leaving the mother house in St. Louis at . . . — — Map (db m134907) HM

110 ► Minnesota, Ramsey County, Saint Paul, Concord-Robert — Northwest Airways Hangar Passenger Terminal — Constructed 1930 · Demolished 1988 —

Northwest Airways Hangar was the airline's first corporate headquarters expressly built for that purpose. The building helped establish the Twin Cities as Northwest's center of operations for almost 85 years. In its materials, structural . . . — — Map (db m234253) HM

111 ► Minnesota, Ramsey County, Saint Paul, Concord-Robert — Riverside Hangars — WWII Bomber Modification Center — 1942 —

Significant engineering example of glued-laminated wood arch construction This property has been placed on the National Register of Historical Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m234013) HM

112 ► Minnesota, Ramsey County, Saint Paul, Lowertown — The Function of Form — Lowertown Heritage Preservation District —

From this site at the turn of the twentieth century, one could inventory the wholesaling and manufacturing businesses that were the lifeblood of Lowertown. Dry goods wholesalers, shoe manufactures, and makers of fur clothing chose a Lowertown . . . — — Map (db m241220) HM

113 ► Minnesota, Ramsey County, Saint Paul, Northwestern Precinct — Central Presbyterian Church —

has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of Interior Heritage Preservation Service Founded February 21, 1852 First Pastor Rev. John G. . . . — — Map (db m79344) HM

114 ► Minnesota, Ramsey County, Saint Paul, Payne - Phalen — Gillette Children's Hospital —

In 1897, the Minnesota Legislature established the State Hospital for Indigent Crippled and Deformed Children. It marked the first time in the nation public funds were given for a hospital dedicated solely to the care of children with disabilities . . . — — Map (db m207672) HM

115 ► Minnesota, Ramsey County, Saint Paul, Payne - Phalen — Tallest Ice Structure in History —

128 Feet, 9 Inches high 10,000 Ice Blocks Harvested From Lake Phalen Each Block Weighing 710 Lbs. 42" Long, 24" Wide, 23" Thick 412 Timber Piles Driven 30-35 Feet Into The Ground 37 Tons of Steel Reinforcing Bars (Set . . . — — Map (db m212609) HM

116 ► Minnesota, Ramsey County, Saint Paul, West Seventh - Fort Road — Alexander Ramsey House —

Appointed by President Zachary Taylor in 1849, Alexander Ramsey came to Minnesota as the territory's first governor. Ramsey stayed in Minnesota for his remaining fifty-four years and, during a successful political career as a Whig and then a . . . — — Map (db m132702) HM

117 ► Minnesota, Ramsey County, Saint Paul, West Seventh - Fort Road — Irvine Park / Irvine Park Historic District —

Pioneer land developer John Irvine established the Upper Landing for steamboats where Chestnut Street meets the Mississippi River. In 1849 he deeded this square to the village of Saint Paul as a public park. Its earliest use as public grazing land . . . — — Map (db m134630) HM

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118 ► Minnesota, Ramsey County, Saint Paul, West Seventh - Fort Road — The New York Life Eagle —

In 1890, architect Stanford White gave the commission for The New York Life Eagle to Augustus Saint-Gaudens on behalf of The New York Life Insurance Company. Augustus sketched its conceptual form and the sculpture was carved in marble by his . . . — — Map (db m41946) HM WM

119 ► Minnesota, Ramsey County, White Bear Lake — Fillebrown House —

A rare example of American Picturesque architecture, this 1879 summer cottage with its carved wood and colored glass is one of the few structures surviving from the golden resort era of White Bear Lake. During the summers from 1870 until 1910 . . . — — Map (db m212826) HM

120 ► Minnesota, Red Lake County, Red Lake Falls — Red Lake County Courthouse — National Register of Historic Places —

This court house has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior May of 1983 — — Map (db m206268) HM

121 ► Minnesota, Rice County, Faribault — Buckham Memorial Library —

Anna Mallory Buckham Anna had Buckham Memorial Library built in honor of her husband with the hope that the memorial "Be a benefit and pleasure to those now living here and those who shall come after them." The 1929 library is a . . . — — Map (db m212445) HM

122 ► Minnesota, Rice County, Faribault — Congregational Church of Faribault — National Register of Historic Places —

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m211998) HM

123 ► Minnesota, Rice County, Faribault — Faribault Riverfront 1880 —

Faribault Industry 1880 This view from the bluff shows some early industry in the city. The A.L. Hill Furniture Factory (left), also had a storefront on Central. This building also housed a flour mill, and later, the Shaft-Pierce . . . — — Map (db m212198) HM

124 ► Minnesota, Rice County, Faribault — Faribault W.P.A. Projects —

Stylish & Functional Structures As part of President Roosevelt's New Deal, the Works Progress Administration helped the country outlast the Great Depression. This was accomplished by putting people back to work on needed projects . . . — — Map (db m212039) HM

125 ► Minnesota, Rice County, Faribault — OCHS Building —

Ochs Brothers Department Store Founded in October 1886 by Albert, Antone and Otto Ochs Albert purchased stock of his brothers and continued as Ochs Brothers Dept. Store Albert Ochs • 1872-1922 Sons, Donald F. Ochs • 1905-1952 Alfred L. Ochs • . . . — — Map (db m212455) HM

126 ► Minnesota, Rice County, Faribault — Rice County Courthouse — National Register of Historic Places — 1934 —

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127 ► Minnesota, Saint Louis County, Duluth, Congdon Park — Glensheen, A Family Legacy —

Campus Heritage Marker University of Minnesota Duluth Glensheen, A Family Legacy Glensheen estate was built between 1905 and 1908 for attorney Chester Adgate Congdon, his wife Clara Bannister Congdon and their . . . — — Map (db m6603) HM

128 ► Minnesota, Saint Louis County, Duluth, Downtown - Waterfront — Duluth Union Depot —

Completed in 1892 Designed by R.S. Peabody & J.G. Stearns Boston Listed in the National Register of Historic Places 1971 St. Louis County Historical Society ———————— St. Louis . . . — — Map (db m79051) HM

129 ► Minnesota, Saint Louis County, Duluth, Downtown - Waterfront — Priley Fountain / Duluth Civic Center —

Priley Fountain In grateful recognition to Joseph C. Priley for his unselfish and dedicated efforts to beautify Duluth July 26, 1970 Duluth Civic Center has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by . . . — — Map (db m49827) HM

130 ► Minnesota, Saint Louis County, Virginia — Oscar Hokka Log House —

Hokka immigrated to this country in 1913. Using skills learned in Finland, he constructed this building with locked dovetail corners. Donated by John Trenti and Robert Berger, 1980 — — Map (db m106385) HM

131 ► Minnesota, Scott County, Belle Plaine — The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration —

In 1867 a New York architect sent the plans for a new church in Belle Plaine to Bishop Whipple. The church was built in 1868 on land contributed by Territorial Judge Andrew G. Chatfield, founder of Belle Plaine. The congregation organized in 1858 . . . — — Map (db m65868) HM

132 ► Minnesota, Sherburne County, St. Cloud — The First Granite Quarry —

In the spring of 1868 the firm of Breen & Young opened the first commercial granite quarry in Minnesota on the site of what is now the St. Cloud Reformatory. Their first order was for stone for the corners, steps, and trimmings of the U.S. Custom . . . — — Map (db m212318) HM

133 ► Minnesota, Sherburne County, St. Cloud — These Walls Do Talk —

The Minnesota State Reformatory for Men was constructed in stages from 1889 to 1922. The facility, designed to hold 1,000 inmates, was originally a prison for young offenders, 16 to 30 years old, with the intent of transforming them into productive . . . — — Map (db m212542) HM

134 ► Minnesota, Stearns County, Collegeville — St. John's Abbey and University Old Church and Quadrangle —

This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m78132) HM

135 ► Minnesota, Stearns County, St. Cloud — B.P.O.E. Building — 1913 —

has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior and St. Cloud Heritage Preservation Commission — — Map (db m78084) HM

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136 ► Minnesota, Stearns County, St. Cloud — Holy Guardian Angels Church —

This church for English-speaking Catholics, built in 1883 under the direction of the Rt. Rev. Rupert Seidenbusch, OSB, and partially destroyed by fire in 1933 was St. Cloud’s first cathedral from 1883-1937. The complex included a bishop’s . . . — — Map (db m205220) HM

137 ► Minnesota, Stearns County, St. Joseph — St. Walburg Hall —

This property has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m78096) HM

138 ► Minnesota, Steele County, Owatonna — Main Building — National Register of Historic Places —

This Main Building, built in 1886, served as the "nerve center" for the State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children during its 60-year history. From 1945-1970, it served as the Owatonna State School, an institution for educable mentally . . . — — Map (db m196948) HM

139 ► Minnesota, Steele County, Owatonna — National Farmer's Bank of Owatonna —

Banker Carl Bennett wanted more than a prominent new building to house his family's business. He wanted a work of art. Bennett's search for an architect led him in 1906 to Louis Sullivan, one of the country' most inventive designers. Together they . . . — — Map (db m23241) HM

140 ► Minnesota, Todd County, Staples — Staples Station —

This property has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m209096) HM

141 ► Minnesota, Wadena County, Wadena — Northern Pacific Passenger Depot — 1915 —

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m233606) HM

142 ► Minnesota, Wadena County, Wadena — Peterson-Biddick Company — 1910-1986 —

This is the site of the Peterson-Biddick Company established in 1910 by John F. Peterson and Daniel Biddick. It was a wholesale and retail company selling produce, potatoes, eggs, poultry and feed; it also produced and sold Funk’s hybrid seed. J. . . . — — Map (db m233609) HM

143 ► Minnesota, Waseca County, Waseca — Trowbridge Park Bandstand — 1915 —

The bandstand, erected and dedicated in 1915, stands in memory of Ira C. Trowbridge, founder of Waseca. Ella Ward and Augusta Jenkins, his daughters, provided funds to build the bandstand in Trowbridge Park (formerly City Park) as a memorial to . . . — — Map (db m206261) HM

144 ► Minnesota, Washington County, Marine on St. Croix — Early Settler's Cabin —

Swedish immigrant Sven Anderson built this early settler's cabin in 1852; some of the cabin logs still show the marks from the axe, which squared them. Sven and his wife Stava raised three children in this cabin, and it was their home until 1869. . . . — — Map (db m44601) HM

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145 ► Minnesota, Washington County, Oak Park Heights — Lake St. Croix Overlook —

Putting America to Work In 1929, the Great Depression swept America and millions were left without work. To help the country through these tough times, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created several federal work programs lasting from 1933 to . . . — — Map (db m201260) HM

146 ► Minnesota, Winona County, Winona — The Watkins Manor House — "The house that vanilla built" —

Paul and Florence Watkins started construction of the Manor House in 1924, with completion in 1927. Paul was the nephew of J.R. Watkins, the founder of Watkins Products and became the company's second president in 1911. Paul and Florence traveled . . . — — Map (db m109644) HM

147 ► Minnesota, Winona County, Winona — Winona County Courthouse —

Winona County Courthouse Erected 1888 C. G. Maybury, Architect Listed on the National Register of Historic Places Winona Commission for the Bicentennial of the Constitution 1987 — — Map (db m126794) HM

148 ► Minnesota, Wright County, Howard Lake — Howard Lake City Hall — 1904 —

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149 ► Minnesota, Wright County, Waverly — Waverly Village Hall —

This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m213529) HM

150 ► Minnesota, Yellow Medicine County, Granite Falls — Agency Homes —

The 1860 US census list a population of 245 in Renville County from a statewide population of 172,023. About 100 people lived here at the Upper Sioux Agency in August, 1862, in homes such as this one built for families of government employees. . . . — — Map (db m153940) HM

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