National Register of Historic Places listings in Dakota County, Minnesota

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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Mendota

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]

Hastings

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]

South Saint Paul

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]

Historic sites

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.

See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Minnesota
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 30, 2011.[7]
[8] Landmark name [9] Image Date listed Location City or town Summary
1 Daniel F. Akin House 01979-12-31December 31, 1979 19185 Akin Road
Farmington Farmhouse built from local limestone[10]
2 Christiania Lutheran Free Church 02010-05-28May 28, 2010 26690 Highview Ave.
Eureka Township
3 Church of Saint Mary's-Catholic 01979-12-31December 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 01979-12-31December 31, 1979 412 Oak Street

Farmington An historic Carpenter Gothic Episcopal church[12]
5 Dakota County Courthouse 01978-07-21July 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 01979-12-31December 31, 1979 321st Street West and Cornell Avenue
Waterford Township Typical rural schoolhouse built in 1882[13]
7 East Second Street Commercial Historic District 01978-07-31July 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 01978-07-21July 21, 1978 724 Ashland Street
Hastings Italian Village-style residence in the style of Andrew Jackson Downing[3]
9 Exchange Bank Building 01979-12-31December 31, 1979 344 3rd Street
Farmington Italianate brick commercial building built in 1880[10]
10 Fasbender Clinic 01979-12-31December 31, 1979 801 Pine Street
Hastings A building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright[3]
11 First Presbyterian Church, Hastings 01995-07-07July 7, 1995 602 Vermillion Street
Hastings Romanesque church by architect, Warren H. Hayes (1847-1899)[3]
12 Fort Snelling 01966-10-15October 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 01978-12-01December 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 01979-12-31December 31, 1979 9091 Inver Grove Trail
Inver Grove Heights 1875 home built of coursed fieldstone collected on-site[15]
15 Good Templars Hall 01979-12-31December 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 01979-12-31December 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 01978-06-07June 7, 1978 719 Vermillion Street
Hastings Oldest church building in Hastings, built in 1862[3]
18 Holz Family Farmstead 02007-05-24May 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 01978-06-15June 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 01978-05-23May 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 01970-06-22June 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 01979-12-31December 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 01970-06-22June 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 01979-12-31December 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 01979-12-31December 31, 1979 17020 Judicial Road West
Lakeville 1918 Prairie style home designed by Paul Haugen[19]
26 Ramsey Mill and Old Mill Park 01998-07-15July 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 02004-05-19May 19, 2004 350 5th Avenue North
South St. Paul 1924 church built by Romanian immigrants[21]
28 Serbian Home 01992-03-26March 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 01972-01-10January 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 01979-03-07March 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 01978-05-22May 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 01978-10-02October 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 02010-08-26August 26, 2010 Canada Ave. over Cannon River
Northfield Iron and Steel Bridges in Minnesota MPS
34 George W. Wentworth House 01979-12-31December 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 01978-07-31July 31, 1978 West Second Street
Hastings District containing 13 architecturally significant homes built between 1857 and 1890.[3]

Former listings

[8] Landmark name Image Date listed/removed Location City or town Summary
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.

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References

  1. ^ a b c "Historic Sites:Mendota Heights". Dakota County Historical Society. 2005. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/mendotaheights.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-28. 
  2. ^ a b c "Historic Sites:Mendota". Dakota County Historical Society. 2005. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/mendota.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-28. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Historic Sites:Hastings". Dakota County Historical Society. 2005. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/hastings.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-25. 
  4. ^ "South St. Paul Riverfront Trail". Mississippi National River and Recreation area. Archived from the original on 2006-12-31. http://web.archive.org/web/20061231195724/http://www.nps.gov/archive/miss/tug/segments/seg16.html. Retrieved 2007-03-19. 
  5. ^ "County Origin". Dakota County Historical Society. 2005. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/origin.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-28. 
  6. ^ "Historic Sites:South St. Paul". Dakota County Historical Society. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/ssp.asp. Retrieved 2007-03-19. 
  7. ^ "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on December 30, 2011.
  8. ^ a b Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmark sites and National Register of Historic Places Districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
  9. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. . http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  10. ^ a b "Farmington Heritage Landmarks". http://www.ci.farmington.mn.us/HPC/HPCBrochure2007.pdf. Retrieved 2008-02-25. 
  11. ^ Kirby, Jennifer. "Historic Homes of Minnesota". http://www.historichomesofminnesota.com/2008/01/earlier-this-summer-i-took-drive-to-red.html. Retrieved 2008-02-25. 
  12. ^ "Historic Sites:Farmington". Dakota County Historical Society. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/farmington.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-28. 
  13. ^ "Historic Sites:Waterford". Dakota County Historical Society. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/waterford.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-27. 
  14. ^ "Historic Commercial Buildings". Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20070927001924/http://www.ci.hastings.mn.us/PlanningDev/HPC/HPCFormsDocs/HPCommercialBuildings.pdf. Retrieved 2007-05-29. 
  15. ^ "Historic Sites:Inver Grove Heights". Dakota County Historical Society. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/igh.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-27. 
  16. ^ "Historic Sites:Nininger". Dakota County Historical Society. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/nininger.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-27. 
  17. ^ "Holz Farm". City of Eagan. http://www.cityofeagan.com/live/page.asp?menu=4340. Retrieved 2008-02-27. 
  18. ^ "Historic Sites:Burnsville". Dakota County Historical Society. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/burnsville.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-27. 
  19. ^ "Historic Sites:Lakeville". Dakota County Historical Society. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/lakeville.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-27. 
  20. ^ Kaplan, Anne; Ziebarth, Marilyn (1999), Making Minnesota Territory, 1849-1858, http://books.google.com/books?id=Ozo-ds-jBFwC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq=ramsey+mill+hastings&source=web&ots=b6o9uOajZs&sig=DHCjZt1FqAhwp1mY4z8XnIdRmqY#PPA102,M1, retrieved 2008-02-27 
  21. ^ Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3. 
  22. ^ a b "Historic Sites:South Saint Paul". Dakota County Historical Society. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/ssp.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-27. 
  23. ^ "Historic Sites:West Saint Paul". Dakota County Historical Society. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/wsp.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-27. 

Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3. 

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