National Register of Historic Places listings in Houston County, Minnesota facts for kids
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Houston County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Houston 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 16 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. A supplementary list includes two sites that were formerly listed on the National Register.
Current listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bridge No. 6679 |
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(#11000468) |
Minnesota State Highway 76 over the south fork of the Root River 43°44′19″N 91°33′52″W / 43.73854°N 91.564327°W |
Houston vicinity | 1949 steel cantilever bridge—at 300 feet (91 m) the longest in Minnesota upon completion—exemplifying a major post-war advancement in bridge design. |
| 2 | Bridge No. L4013 |
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(#90000976) |
Township Road 126 over Riceford Creek 43°37′21″N 91°42′21″W / 43.622534°N 91.705822°W |
Spring Grove vicinity | 1915 stone arch bridge, the only documented surviving example of what appears to be a standard design introduced by the state highway commission in the early 20th century. |
| 3 | Christian Bunge, Jr. Store |
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(#82002964) |
Iowa Avenue at Main Street 43°30′28″N 91°27′50″W / 43.507737°N 91.463869°W |
Eitzen | Eitzen's most prominent commercial building—built in 1890 for the German immigrant merchant who named the town—and a symbol of the area's ethnic heritage. Now a local history museum. |
| 4 | Caledonia Commercial Historic District |
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(#94000830) |
101-205 E. Main St. and 101-108 S. Kingston St. 43°38′05″N 91°29′47″W / 43.634604°N 91.496431°W |
Caledonia | Downtown strip with 10 contributing properties built 1872–1906, significant for its late-19th/early-20th-century commercial architecture and its key role in serving Houston County farmers. |
| 5 | Daniel Cameron House |
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(#82002968) |
429-435 South 7th Street 43°49′19″N 91°18′28″W / 43.821934°N 91.307698°W |
La Crescent | Prominent 1871 house noted for its Italianate architecture and associations with Daniel Cameron (a prosperous farmer and state senator) and his brother Peter (the first settler in the area). |
| 6 | Church of the Holy Comforter-Episcopal |
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(#70000298) |
Main Street 43°41′39″N 91°16′37″W / 43.694216°N 91.277037°W |
Brownsville | Brownsville's oldest public building, built in 1855 and used as a town hall, church, and school. |
| 7 | Hokah Municipal Building |
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(#14000868) |
57 Main St. 43°45′34″N 91°20′46″W / 43.759306°N 91.346028°W |
Hokah | 1938 Art Deco hall with government and recreational facilities, a distinctive example of a small-town partnership with the Works Progress Administration for a multipurpose public building. |
| 8 | Houston County Courthouse and Jail |
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(#83000905) |
Courthouse Square 43°37′58″N 91°29′45″W / 43.632775°N 91.495895°W |
Caledonia | 1875 sheriff's residence/jail and 1883 courthouse, noted for their association with Houston County's government and for being its leading examples of Italianate and Romanesque Revival architecture, respectively. |
| 9 | Jefferson Grain Warehouse |
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(#94001386) |
Off Minnesota Highway 26 43°31′00″N 91°16′46″W / 43.516685°N 91.279462°W |
Jefferson Township | Riverside grain warehouse built in 1868, a rare surviving reminder of a period when wheat was becoming the most important agricultural crop of the Upper Midwest and steamboats were still the leading form of transportation. |
| 10 | Johnson Mill |
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(#82002966) |
County Roads 5 and 23 43°32′19″N 91°24′45″W / 43.538656°N 91.412521°W |
Eitzen vicinity | One of Minnesota's few surviving water-powered gristmills, built in 1877 to serve the area's wheat farmers. |
| 11 | Portland Prairie Methodist Episcopal Church |
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(#82002967) |
Off Minnesota Highway 76 43°31′33″N 91°29′28″W / 43.525783°N 91.491099°W |
Eitzen vicinity | Rural church built in 1876, noted for its exemplary Eastlake Movement architecture and association with the area's settlers from New England. |
| 12 | Schech Mill |
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(#78001548) |
Off County Road 10 43°40′02″N 91°34′50″W / 43.667299°N 91.580685°W |
Caledonia vicinity | Rare surviving watermill built 1875–76, and Minnesota's only gristmill to retain its original millstones and operable 1870s-style machinery. Now a museum. |
| 13 | David R. and Ellsworth A. Sprague Houses |
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(#82002962) |
204 and 224 West Main Street 43°38′05″N 91°29′55″W / 43.634856°N 91.498706°W |
Caledonia | Two adjacent houses built between 1900 and 1905 for brothers David R. and Ellsworth A. Sprague, who carried on the commercial and financial work of their father, influential Houston County figure Ara D. Sprague (d. 1909). |
| 14 | Spafford Williams Hotel |
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(#82002963) |
East Main at North Marshall 43°38′05″N 91°29′46″W / 43.634741°N 91.496129°W |
Caledonia | Hotel established in the early 1870s before the railroad reached Caledonia, representating the city's early commercial activity and architecture. Also a contributing property to the Caledonia Commercial Historic District. |
| 15 | Yucatan Fort Site |
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(#96001308) |
Address restricted |
Yucatan Township | Native American earthworks dating to the late Oneota period. |
Former listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eitzen Stone Barn |
(#82002965) |
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South of Eitzen 43°30′13″N 91°27′50″W / 43.503611°N 91.463889°W |
Eitzen vicinity | Also called the Schroeder Stone Barn, built of fieldstone sometime in the 1870s or '80s, an unusual vernacular use of stonemasonry and a representative of the area's German immigrants and agricultural focus. Razed in 2004. | |
| 2 | Houston County Poor Farm |
(#82002961) |
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Co. Hwy. 12 |
Caledonia vicinity | 1893 poor farm. Demolished in 1988. |
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