National Register of Historic Places listings in Steele County, Minnesota facts for kids
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Steele County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Steele 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 13 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including one National Historic Landmark. A supplementary list includes five additional sites that were formerly on the National Register.
Current listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ezra Abbott House |
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(#75001029) |
345 East Broadway 44°05′04″N 93°13′08″W / 44.084518°N 93.218957°W |
Owatonna | c. 1860 house of an influential early settler of Owatonna. |
| 2 | Dr. John H. Adair House |
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(#86001406) |
322 East Vine Street 44°05′10″N 93°13′12″W / 44.08604°N 93.220047°W |
Owatonna | 1913 Prairie School house, called southeast Minnesota's finest residential design by Purcell, Feick & Elmslie in its NRHP nomination. |
| 3 | Administration Building-Minnesota State Public School For Dependent and Neglected Children |
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(#75001030) |
West Hills Circle 44°05′22″N 93°14′17″W / 44.08939°N 93.23815°W |
Owatonna | 1887 Romanesque Revival main building of a state school complex active 1886–1970. Also a contributing property to the Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children historic district. Now contains the Minnesota State Public School Orphanage Museum and city offices. |
| 4 | Blooming Prairie Commercial Historic District |
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(#94000832) |
Main Street, East between Highway Avenue and 2nd Avenue, N.E. 43°52′00″N 93°03′05″W / 43.866696°N 93.051257°W |
Blooming Prairie | Unusually intact business district of an agricultural trade center on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad, with 21 contributing properties built 1893–1946. |
| 5 | Bridge No. L-5573 |
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(#96001613) |
Township Road 95 over the Straight River, east of U.S. Route 65 44°08′34″N 93°14′39″W / 44.142763°N 93.244172°W |
Clinton Falls Township | Also known as the Clinton Falls Bridge, an early use of steel for a truss bridge in Minnesota, constructed in 1894. |
| 6 | Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children |
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(#10001089) |
Roughly bounded by West Hills Drive, State Avenue, and Florence Avenue 44°05′25″N 93°14′15″W / 44.090278°N 93.2375°W |
Owatonna | Campus of a pioneering public institution for juvenile wards of the state, active 1886–1947, with 19 contributing properties. Also associated with nationally significant child welfare advocate Galen A. Merrill. Now the West Hills Complex. |
| 7 | National Farmers' Bank |
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(#71000441) |
101 North Cedar Street 44°05′06″N 93°13′33″W / 44.085017°N 93.22579°W |
Owatonna | Architecturally significant bank building designed by Louis Sullivan and George Grant Elmslie, the first of Sullivan's late-career "jewel box" banks. Also a contributing property to the Owatonna Commercial Historic District. |
| 8 | Owatonna City and Firemen's Hall |
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(#97000019) |
107 West Main Street 44°05′01″N 93°13′35″W / 44.083481°N 93.226502°W |
Owatonna | Multipurpose municipal hall built 1906–7, significant as Owatonna's government center and as an example of Minnesota's common late-19th/early-20th-century municipal buildings. Also a contributing property to the Owatonna Commercial Historic District. |
| 9 | Owatonna Commercial Historic District |
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(#14001237) |
Roughly bounded by North Cedar Avenue, West & East Broadway, West Bridge & West Main Streets 44°05′04″N 93°13′39″W / 44.0844°N 93.2275°W |
Owatonna | 12-block downtown district with 75 contributing properties built 1871 to the late 1950s, associated with the growth and prosperity of an agricultural/industrial community and county seat. |
| 10 | Owatonna Free Public Library |
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(#76001075) |
105 North Elm Street 44°05′06″N 93°13′23″W / 44.085112°N 93.223117°W |
Owatonna | 1899 public library noted for its Neoclassical architecture and contribution to Owatonna's intellectual and cultural development. |
| 11 | Pillsbury Academy Campus Historic District |
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(#86003680) |
Roughly Academy, Grove, and Main Streets 44°04′56″N 93°13′10″W / 44.082222°N 93.219445°W |
Owatonna | Five campus buildings constructed 1889–1914 for the only Baptist school among Minnesota's 19th-century private institutions of higher education. Also noted for their architecture and association with benefactors Mark H. Dunnell and George A. Pillsbury. |
| 12 | Daniel S. Piper House |
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(#75001028) |
County Highway 45 44°10′01″N 93°14′47″W / 44.167044°N 93.246256°W |
Medford vicinity | Minnesota's only example of a New England-style interconnected farm complex, built in 1877, and a symbol of Yankee settler heritage in the state. |
| 13 | Steele County Courthouse |
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(#78001565) |
111 East Main Street 44°05′00″N 93°13′32″W / 44.083235°N 93.225461°W |
Owatonna | 1891 Richardsonian Romanesque courthouse. Also a contributing property to the Owatonna Commercial Historic District. |
Former listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clinton Falls Mills and Dam |
(#86001462) |
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off Co. Hwy. 9 |
Clinton Falls Township | Dam and water-powered grist mill built 1856–59. Demolished in 2003. | |
| 2 | Kaplan Apartments |
(#86001464) |
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115 West Rose Street |
Owatonna | 1912 apartment house of Owatonna Tool Company founder Godfrey J. Kaplan. Demolished in 2005. | |
| 3 | Owatonna High School |
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(#86002124) |
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333 East School Street 44°04′46″N 93°13′12″W / 44.079516°N 93.220008°W |
Owatonna | 1920 Classical Revival school. Delisted after being altered in 1998. |
| 4 | Owatonna Water Works Power Station |
(#86001483) |
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West School Street and Mosher Avenue |
Owatonna | 1890 water supply facility. Demolished in 1992. | |
| 5 | Steele County Courthouse |
(#76001076) |
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139 East Main Street |
Owatonna | 1874 Italianate courthouse. Demolished in 1987. |
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