National Register of Historic Places listings in Dakota County, Minnesota

Dakota County

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.

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.

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See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Minnesota

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 10, 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 44°40′18″N 93°10′18″W / 44.671667°N 93.171667°W / 44.671667; -93.171667 (Daniel F. Akin House)	Farmington	Farmhouse built from local limestone[10]
2	Christiania Lutheran Free Church		02010-05-28May 28, 2010	26690 Highview Ave. 44°33′46″N 93°14′17″W / 44.5629°N 93.238083°W / 44.5629; -93.238083 (Christiania Lutheran Free Church)	Eureka Township
3	Church of Saint Mary's-Catholic		01979-12-31December 31, 1979	8433 239th Street East 44°36′11″N 92°56′06″W / 44.603056°N 92.935°W / 44.603056; -92.935 (Church of Saint Mary's-Catholic)	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 44°38′20″N 93°08′33″W / 44.63889°N 93.1425°W / 44.63889; -93.1425 (Church of the Advent)	Farmington	An historic Carpenter Gothic Episcopal church[12]
5	Dakota County Courthouse		01978-07-21July 21, 1978	Vermillion and 4th Streets 44°44′33″N 92°51′08″W / 44.7425°N 92.852222°W / 44.7425; -92.852222 (Dakota County Courthouse)	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 44°29′05″N 93°08′40″W / 44.484722°N 93.144444°W / 44.484722; -93.144444 (District No. 72 School)	Waterford Township	Typical rural schoolhouse built in 1882[13]
7	East Second Street Commercial Historic District		01978-07-31July 31, 1978	East Second Street 44°44′40″N 92°51′01″W / 44.744444°N 92.850278°W / 44.744444; -92.850278 (East Second Street Commercial Historic District)	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 44°44′26″N 92°51′23″W / 44.740556°N 92.856389°W / 44.740556; -92.856389 (Ignatius Eckert House)	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 44°38′22″N 93°08′43″W / 44.639444°N 93.145278°W / 44.639444; -93.145278 (Exchange Bank Building)	Farmington	Italianate brick commercial building built in 1880[10]
10	Fasbender Clinic		01979-12-31December 31, 1979	801 Pine Street 44°44′40″N 92°51′01″W / 44.744444°N 92.850278°W / 44.744444; -92.850278 (Fasbender Clinic)	Hastings	A building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright[3]
11	First Presbyterian Church, Hastings		01995-07-07July 7, 1995	602 Vermillion Street 44°44′24″N 92°51′11″W / 44.74°N 92.853056°W / 44.74; -92.853056 (First Presbyterian Church, Hastings)	Hastings	Romanesque church by architect, Warren H. Hayes (1847-1899)[3]
12	Fort Snelling		01966-10-15October 15, 1966	Picnic Island 44°53′08″N 93°10′41″W / 44.885556°N 93.178056°W / 44.885556; -93.178056 (Fort Snelling)	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 44°53′06″N 93°10′25″W / 44.885°N 93.173611°W / 44.885; -93.173611 (Fort Snelling-Mendota Bridge)	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 44°49′03″N 93°01′23″W / 44.8175°N 93.023056°W / 44.8175; -93.023056 (Reuben Freeman House)	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 44°46′11″N 92°54′14″W / 44.76972°N 92.90389°W / 44.76972; -92.90389 (Good Templars Hall) (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 44°44′44″N 92°50′37″W / 44.745556°N 92.843611°W / 44.745556; -92.843611 (Hastings Foundry-Star Iron Works)	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 44°44′18″N 92°51′08″W / 44.738333°N 92.852222°W / 44.738333; -92.852222 (Hastings Methodist Episcopal Church)	Hastings	Oldest church building in Hastings, built in 1862[3]
18	Holz Family Farmstead		02007-05-24May 24, 2007	4665 Manor Drive 44°47′16″N 93°06′56″W / 44.787778°N 93.115556°W / 44.787778; -93.115556 (Holz Family Farmstead)	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 44°44′20″N 92°51′10″W / 44.738889°N 92.852778°W / 44.738889; -92.852778 (Byron Howes House)	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 44°44′26″N 92°51′00″W / 44.740556°N 92.85°W / 44.740556; -92.85 (Rudolph Latto House)	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 44°43′45″N 92°51′07″W / 44.729167°N 92.851944°W / 44.729167; -92.851944 (William G. LeDuc House)	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 44°44′21″N 92°51′21″W / 44.739167°N 92.855833°W / 44.739167; -92.855833 (MacDonald-Todd House)	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 44°53′15″N 93°09′59″W / 44.8875°N 93.166389°W / 44.8875; -93.166389 (Mendota Historic District)	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 44°43′21″N 93°17′54″W / 44.7225°N 93.298333°W / 44.7225; -93.298333 (Minneapolis Saint Paul Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company Depot)	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 44°42′10″N 93°19′01″W / 44.702778°N 93.316944°W / 44.702778; -93.316944 (Emil J. Oberhoffer House)	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 44°43′35″N 92°50′29″W / 44.726389°N 92.841389°W / 44.726389; -92.841389 (Ramsey Mill and Old Mill Park)	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 44°53′44″N 93°02′20″W / 44.895556°N 93.038889°W / 44.895556; -93.038889 (Saint Stefan's Romanian Orthodox Church)	South St. Paul	1924 church built by Romanian immigrants[21]
28	Serbian Home		01992-03-26March 26, 1992	404 3rd Avenue South 44°53′05″N 93°02′15″W / 44.884722°N 93.0375°W / 44.884722; -93.0375 (Serbian Home)	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 44°53′17″N 93°09′56″W / 44.888056°N 93.165556°W / 44.888056; -93.165556 (Henry H. Sibley House)	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 44°53′28″N 93°02′00″W / 44.891111°N 93.033333°W / 44.891111; -93.033333 (Stockyards Exchange)	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 44°44′36″N 92°51′42″W / 44.743333°N 92.861667°W / 44.743333; -92.861667 (Thompson-Fasbender House)	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 44°44′22″N 92°51′11″W / 44.739444°N 92.853056°W / 44.739444; -92.853056 (VanDyke-Libby House)	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 44°29′15″N 93°07′43″W / 44.4875°N 93.128611°W / 44.4875; -93.128611 (Waterford Bridge)	Northfield	Iron and Steel Bridges in Minnesota MPS
34	George W. Wentworth House		01979-12-31December 31, 1979	1575 Oakdale Avenue 44°53′56″N 93°04′19″W / 44.898889°N 93.071944°W / 44.898889; -93.071944 (George W. Wentworth House)	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 44°44′38″N 92°51′20″W / 44.743889°N 92.855556°W / 44.743889; -92.855556 (West Second Street Residential Historic District)	Hastings	District containing 13 architecturally significant homes built between 1857 and 1890.[3]

See also

Main article: List of Registered Historic Places in Minnesota

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 November 10, 2011.
8. ^ 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. ^{[dead link]}
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. 

External links

• A list of the above sites, with street addresses and other information, is available at Dakota County, MN listing of National Register of Historic Places.Com, a private site serving up NRHP information.