This is a list of properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Dakota County, Minnesota.
Dakota County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota, bounded on the northeast side by the Upper Mississippi River, and on the northwest by the Minnesota River. Its historic sites convey the county's significant historical trends.
The earliest European settlement occurred on what is now Picnic Island, in 1819, where Colonel Henry Leavenworth built a stockade fort called "St. Peter's Cantonment" or "New Hope;" there materials were assembled for the construction of Fort Snelling, to be built on the bluff on the north side of the Minnesota River.[1] Permanent settlement on the island was impossible due to annual flooding.
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The next significant white settlement occurred in the area known as St. Peters, now Mendota, where Alexis Bailey built some log buildings to trade in furs in 1826. Henry Hastings Sibley built the first stone house in Minnesota there in 1836, overlooking Fort Snelling across the river. Sibley was a partner in the American Fur Company, and considerable fur trade occurred at Mendota, where the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers converge. By the time Minnesota achieved statehood in 1858, power and influence had shifted from Mendota, across the rivers to Saint Paul and Minneapolis.[2]
By this time and continuing into the 20th century, the hub of activity in the county was in Hastings, the county seat, and a focal point of transportation, communication, and commerce. Hastings is critically located on the Mississippi River at the confluence of the St. Croix River and on the Vermillion River, which provided ample water power. Commercial interests built substantial wealth among the businessmen who dealt in lumber, milling, and railroads as the county residents depended on them to sell their agricultural products and to provide the goods needed for a growing economy and rising standard of living.[3]
Into the early twentieth century, the stockyards and meat-packing plants in South Saint Paul became historically significant, as they were the largest stockyards in the world;[4] this is where ranchers in the vast countryside to the west brought their livestock for shipping to the hungry populations of St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans, downstream.[5] These plants were worked by new immigrants from Romania, Serbia, and other Eastern European countries.[6]
The history of the county is well-illustrated by this list, including the settlement at Mendota, the homes of well-heeled residents of Hastings, the ethnic gathering places in South Saint Paul, and other sites related to life on the prairie, including religion, education, transportation, commerce, and the business of farming.
[8] | Landmark name [9] | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Summary |
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1 | Daniel F. Akin House | December 31, 1979 | 19185 Akin Road |
Farmington | Farmhouse built from local limestone[10] | |
2 | Christiania Lutheran Free Church | May 28, 2010 | 26690 Highview Ave. |
Eureka Township | ||
3 | Church of Saint Mary's-Catholic | December 31, 1979 | 8433 239th Street East |
New Trier | Beaux Arts style church designed in 1909 for a community of Catholic German immigrants[11] | |
4 | Church of the Advent | December 31, 1979 | 412 Oak Street |
Farmington | An historic Carpenter Gothic Episcopal church[12] | |
5 | Dakota County Courthouse | July 21, 1978 | Vermillion and 4th Streets |
Hastings | Italian Villa style courthouse served as the seat of Dakota County government from 1871 until 1974[3] | |
6 | District No. 72 School | December 31, 1979 | 321st Street West and Cornell Avenue |
Waterford Township | Typical rural schoolhouse built in 1882[13] | |
7 | East Second Street Commercial Historic District | July 31, 1978 | East Second Street |
Hastings | A downtown historic district consisting of 35 commercial buildings built between 1860 and 1900[14] | |
8 | Ignatius Eckert House | July 21, 1978 | 724 Ashland Street |
Hastings | Italian Village-style residence in the style of Andrew Jackson Downing[3] | |
9 | Exchange Bank Building | December 31, 1979 | 344 3rd Street |
Farmington | Italianate brick commercial building built in 1880[10] | |
10 | Fasbender Clinic | December 31, 1979 | 801 Pine Street |
Hastings | A building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright[3] | |
11 | First Presbyterian Church, Hastings | July 7, 1995 | 602 Vermillion Street |
Hastings | Romanesque church by architect, Warren H. Hayes (1847-1899)[3] | |
12 | Fort Snelling | October 15, 1966 | Picnic Island |
Fort Snelling | On what is now Picnic Island, on the Dakota County side of the Minnesota River in 1819, Colonel Henry Leavenworth built a stockade fort called "St. Peter's Cantonment" or "New Hope," where materials were assembled for the construction of Fort Snelling.[1] | |
13 | Fort Snelling-Mendota Bridge | December 1, 1978 | State Highway 55 |
Mendota | When built in 1926, it was the longest concrete arch bridge in the world, at 4,119 feet (1,255 m) in length.[1] | |
14 | Reuben Freeman House | December 31, 1979 | 9091 Inver Grove Trail |
Inver Grove Heights | 1875 home built of coursed fieldstone collected on-site[15] | |
15 | Good Templars Hall | December 31, 1979 | 124th Street East (represents original location of building) |
Nininger | 1858 Greek Revival building built by members of a temperance organization in 1858[16] The building was moved to Little Log House Pioneer Village in 2005. | |
16 | Hastings Foundry-Star Iron Works | December 31, 1979 | 707 East 1st Street |
Hastings | Industrial building from 1859 where the first steam engine in Minnesota was built[3] | |
17 | Hastings Methodist Episcopal Church | June 7, 1978 | 719 Vermillion Street |
Hastings | Oldest church building in Hastings, built in 1862[3] | |
18 | Holz Family Farmstead | May 24, 2007 | 4665 Manor Drive |
Eagan | Originally an 80-acre (320,000 m2) parcel settled in the 1870s, the Holz family raised livestock, fruits, vegetables, and crops.[17] | |
19 | Byron Howes House | June 15, 1978 | 718 Vermillion Street |
Hastings | Built in 1868 in the Italianate style by Byron Howes, an early resident of Hastings[3] | |
20 | Rudolph Latto House | May 23, 1978 | 620 Ramsey Street |
Hastings | 1880 home of a local banker built in the Italianate and Eastlake styles[3] | |
21 | William G. LeDuc House | June 22, 1970 | 1629 Vermillion Street |
Hastings | Unusually complete example of the style of Andrew Jackson Downing, a pioneer in American landscape architecture[3] | |
22 | MacDonald-Todd House | December 31, 1979 | 309 West 7th Street |
Hastings | This 1857 home of journalists A. W. MacDonald and Irving Todd built in Greek Revival style was moved to Hastings from Nininger in 1866.[3] | |
23 | Mendota Historic District | June 22, 1970 | Roughly bounded by government lot 2, State Highway 55, Sibley Highway., D Street, and Minnesota River |
Mendota | Several buildings including St. Peter's church, the oldest church in continuous use in Minnesota, Henry Hastings Sibley's house, Jean-Baptiste Faribault's house and hotel, and trade buildings of the American Fur Company[2] | |
24 | Minneapolis Saint Paul Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company Depot | December 31, 1979 | County Highway 5 at 155th Street |
Burnsville | Built in 1910 on the "Dan Patch Line," this station served small farmers in Burnsville who brought their onions and other produce to Minneapolis for sale and later for commuters who found work in the Twin Cities[18] | |
25 | Emil J. Oberhoffer House | December 31, 1979 | 17020 Judicial Road West |
Lakeville | 1918 Prairie style home designed by Paul Haugen[19] | |
26 | Ramsey Mill and Old Mill Park | July 15, 1998 | 18th Street and Vermillion River |
Hastings | remnants of Alexander Ramsey's gristmill on the Vermillion River[20] | |
27 | Saint Stefan's Romanian Orthodox Church | May 19, 2004 | 350 5th Avenue North |
South St. Paul | 1924 church built by Romanian immigrants[21] | |
28 | Serbian Home | March 26, 1992 | 404 3rd Avenue South |
South St. Paul | 1923 hall built for Serbian immigrants, many of whom worked in meatpacking industry[22] | |
29 | Henry H. Sibley House | January 10, 1972 | Willow Street |
Mendota | The first stone house in Minnesota, Sibley's home in historic Mendota, "where the waters meet" was in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Dakota, Minnesota Territory and finally, the state of Minnesota, as political boundaries changed.[2] | |
30 | Stockyards Exchange | March 7, 1979 | 200 North Concord Street |
South St. Paul | At the peak of operation during World War II, the exchange served four major meatpacking plants, conveniently located near the northern barge terminus of the Upper Mississippi River.[22] | |
31 | Thompson-Fasbender House | May 22, 1978 | 649 3rd Street West |
Hastings | Once the home of a wealthy land-owner, the home was converted to the Saint Raphael Hospital before being converted to apartments.[3] | |
32 | VanDyke-Libby House | October 2, 1978 | 612 Vermillion Street |
Hastings | Once the home of a wealthy banker, the home has also served as a sanitarium.[3] | |
33 | Waterford Bridge | August 26, 2010 | Canada Ave. over Cannon River |
Northfield | Iron and Steel Bridges in Minnesota MPS | |
34 | George W. Wentworth House | December 31, 1979 | 1575 Oakdale Avenue |
West St. Paul | 1887 Queen Anne style home of Wentworth's, a prominent local politician[23] | |
35 | West Second Street Residential Historic District | July 31, 1978 | West Second Street |
Hastings | District containing 13 architecturally significant homes built between 1857 and 1890.[3] |
[8] | Landmark name | Image | Date listed/removed | Location | City or town | Summary |
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1 | Horticulrture Building | March 15, 1993 | County Highway 74 | Farmington vicinity | Originally listed 1977. Ref #77001227. | |
2 | Jacob Marthaler House | January 10, 1994 | 1746 Oakdale Avenue | West St. Paul | Originally listed 1988. Ref #88002136. |
Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3.
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