National Register of Historic Places listings in Big Stone County, Minnesota facts for kids

Location of Big Stone County in Minnesota

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Big Stone County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Big Stone County, Minnesota, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.

There are nine 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 31, 2017.

Current listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	City or town	Description
1	Big Stone County Courthouse		August 15, 1985 (#85001764)	20 2nd St., SE. 45°18′17″N 96°26′40″W	Ortonville	Monumental Victorian courthouse designed by Fremont D. Orff and completed in 1902; Big Stone County's long-serving seat of government and largest Victorian building.
2	Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot		July 31, 1986 (#86002118)	Main and Center Sts. 45°27′35″N 96°26′14″W	Clinton	Well-preserved example of a small combination depot, built c. 1885. Also noted as Clinton's oldest building and a symbol of the impact of railroads on the town. Now houses a city history museum.
3	Columbian Hotel		August 15, 1985 (#85001766)	305 2nd St., NW. 45°18′26″N 96°26′52″W	Ortonville	Exemplary Victorian hotel built in 1892, a landmark and key amenity in downtown Ortonville. Destroyed by fire October 26, 2012.
4	District No. 13 School		August 15, 1985 (#85001772)	County Road 25 (original address) Current coordinates are 45°17′48″N 96°25′54″W	Correll vicinity	Unique octagonal schoolhouse built in 1898. Also significant as one of the county's first schools and the first building by a founder of the regionally notable Carlson-Hasslen Construction Company. Moved to the Big Stone County Historical Museum.
5	Graceville Historical Marker		December 15, 2004 (#04001358)	Minnesota Highway 15 45°34′05″N 96°27′00″W	Graceville	Well-preserved example of an early Minnesota highway wayside, built 1940–41 by the Works Progress Administration. Also noted for its NPS Rustic landscape architecture by Arthur R. Nichols.
6	Odessa Jail		July 24, 1986 (#86001916)	Main and 2nd Sts. 45°15′37″N 96°19′44″W	Odessa	Odessa's oldest public building, built in 1913; a rare surviving example of the freestanding brick jailhouses once common in small Minnesota towns.
7	Ortonville Commercial Historic District		August 15, 1985 (#85001765)	2nd St., Madison and Monroe Aves., between Jefferson and Jackson Aves. 45°18′22″N 96°26′47″W	Ortonville	Long-serving commercial district noted for its uniform Victorian buildings, representative of the region's small towns but unique for their purple granite trim. Contains 19 contributing properties built 1879–1922.
8	Ortonville Free Library		August 15, 1985 (#85001767)	412 2nd St., NW. 45°18′31″N 96°26′54″W	Ortonville	One of west-central Minnesota's few examples of a Carnegie library and of Mission Revival architecture, built in 1915. Also significant as a work of St. Paul architect Franklin Ellerbe and the Carlson-Hasslen Construction Company.
9	St. Pauli Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church		August 26, 2010 (#10000581)	33022 U.S. Route 75 45°25′35″N 96°25′52″W	Clinton vicinity	1896 church—expanded in 1911—and adjoining cemetery, anchor of a rural Norwegian immigrant community.

Former listing

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Date removed	Location	City or town	Summary
1	Shannon Hotel		August 15, 1985 (#85001773)	August 2, 2000	Studdart Ave. and 2nd St.	Graceville	1902 brick Queen Anne hotel. Demolished in 1999.