National Register of Historic Places listings in Meeker County, Minnesota

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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Meeker County, Minnesota.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Meeker 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 10 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another property was once listed but has been removed.

          This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted March 28, 2025.^[1]

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[2]	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed[3]	Location	City or town	Description
1	Henry Ames House	More images	August 9, 1984 (#84001623)	63150 277th Street 45°08′54″N 94°29′55″W / 45.148452°N 94.498698°W / 45.148452; -94.498698 (Henry Ames House)	Darwin Township	Farmhouse built 1888–89 by prosperous local brickmaker Henry Ames (1846–1928), whose on-site brickyard was Meeker County's leading industry for almost two decades.[4]
2	Bridge No. 90980	More images	January 9, 1997 (#96001560)	690th Avenue over the North Fork of the Crow River 45°12′08″N 94°22′45″W / 45.202092°N 94.37917°W / 45.202092; -94.37917 (Bridge No. 90980)	Kingston Township	One of Minnesota's earliest steel truss bridges, built in 1899 by the Hewett Bridge Company, an important Minneapolis-based manufacturer at the turn of the 20th century.[5]
3	Brightwood Beach Cottage	More images	May 22, 1978 (#78001551)	South Ripley Drive 45°05′54″N 94°32′22″W / 45.098285°N 94.539338°W / 45.098285; -94.539338 (Brightwood Beach Cottage)	Litchfield Township	Octagonal summer cottage built for a lake resort in 1889, Minnesota's only surviving example of the octagon house fad applied to a rental property and the best representative of the short-lived resort's facilities.[6]
4	District No. 48 School	More images	January 25, 1997 (#96001612)	17757 745th Avenue 45°03′54″N 94°15′40″W / 45.064972°N 94.260997°W / 45.064972; -94.260997 (District No. 48 School)	Collinwood Township	One-room school active 1870–1961, a remnant of early Euro-American settlement and education in rural Minnesota.[7]
5	Grand Army of the Republic Hall	More images	May 21, 1975 (#75000995)	370 North Marshall Street 45°07′45″N 94°31′35″W / 45.129137°N 94.526322°W / 45.129137; -94.526322 (Grand Army of the Republic Hall)	Litchfield	Fortress-like hall built in 1885 by Civil War Union Veterans to house a private reading library and museum; one of the finest buildings associated with influential late 19th-century fraternal society Grand Army of the Republic.[8] Now part of the Meeker County Historical Society Museum.[9]
6	Litchfield Commercial Historic District		March 1, 1996 (#96000192)	North Sibley Avenue between Depot and Third Streets 45°07′39″N 94°31′41″W / 45.127404°N 94.528111°W / 45.127404; -94.528111 (Litchfield Commercial Historic District)	Litchfield	Unusually intact business district of a small Midwestern agricultural trade center of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with 36 contributing properties mostly built between 1882 and 1940.[10]
7	Litchfield Opera House	More images	October 4, 1984 (#84000019)	136 North Marshall Avenue 45°07′38″N 94°31′35″W / 45.127263°N 94.526311°W / 45.127263; -94.526311 (Litchfield Opera House)	Litchfield	Long-serving community center, built as a theater in 1900 and remodeled in the 1930s to house civic offices and public meeting space.[11]
8	Pipe Lake Fort		June 26, 2003 (#03000576)	Off County Road 1[12] 44°55′56″N 94°35′44″W / 44.932222°N 94.595556°W / 44.932222; -94.595556 (Pipe Lake Fort)	Cedar Mills Township	Best preserved example of 12 sod forts built and briefly manned by the U.S. Army across southwest Minnesota in the year after the Dakota War of 1862.[13]
9	Trinity Episcopal Church	More images	June 20, 1975 (#75000996)	400 North Sibley Avenue 45°07′48″N 94°31′40″W / 45.130041°N 94.527775°W / 45.130041; -94.527775 (Trinity Episcopal Church)	Litchfield	Superlative Carpenter Gothic church built in 1871, believed to have been designed by Richard Upjohn.[14]
10	Universal Laboratories Building	More images	March 1, 1996 (#96000191)	901 First Street, North 45°05′10″N 94°18′28″W / 45.086195°N 94.30779°W / 45.086195; -94.30779 (Universal Laboratories Building)	Dassel	Processing facility that became the nation's first and most important domestic supplier of ergot—source of many vital drugs, particularly in wartime—beginning in 1937 just as the impending World War II was cutting off foreign purveyors.[15] Now a museum.[16]

Former listing

[2]	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Date removed	Location	City or town	Description
1	West End Elevator	Upload image	March 14, 1985 (#85000556)	November 30, 1987	4th Street and Atlantic Avenue	Dassel	1885 grain elevator.[17] Burned down in 1987.[18][19]

Additionally, Bridge No. 5388 was originally listed in Meeker County but was relocated to Mower County in 2011.^[20]

See also

• List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Minnesota

References

1. ^ National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved March 28, 2025.
2. ^ ^{a b} Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
3. ^ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
4. ^ Sazevich, James A. (November 15, 1983). National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Ames, Henry, House (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
5. ^ Anderson, David C. (July 31, 1995). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Bridge No. 90980 (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
6. ^ Allen, Myrtle; Susan Zeik (October 3, 1977). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Octagon Cottage (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
7. ^ Anderson, David C. (April 26, 1996). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: District No. 48 School (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
8. ^ Hackett, John J. (November 20, 1974). National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Grand Army of the Republic Hall (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
9. ^ "The Meeker County Historical Society Museum & G.A.R. Hall". Retrieved February 17, 2013.
10. ^ Granger, Susan; Kay Grossman (September 15, 1995). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Litchfield Commercial Historic District (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
11. ^ Sazevich, James A.; Brian C. Pease (November 15, 1983). National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Litchfield Opera House (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
12. ^ Location derived from "Pipe Lake Fort". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Retrieved June 10, 2017. NRIS lists site as "address restricted".
13. ^ Dudzik, Mark J.; Bruce Koenen (February 10, 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Pipe Lake Fort" (Document). National Park Service.
14. ^ Atkinson, Florence D.; Edward V. Lofstrom (February 25, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Trinity Episcopal Church". National Park Service. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
15. ^ de Miranda, Cynthia; Jeffrey A. Hess (August 1995). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Universal Laboratories Building (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
16. ^ "Museum". City of Dassel. Retrieved February 26, 2013.
17. ^ "West End Elevator (removed)". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Archived from the original on June 18, 2019.
18. ^ "Fire destroys historic elevator in Dassel". St. Cloud Times. February 9, 1987. p. 2C. Retrieved July 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
19. ^ Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3.
20. ^ "Bridge R0529". Historic Bridges. Minnesota Department of Transportation. 2015. Retrieved December 23, 2015.

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