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

Location of Morrison County in Minnesota

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Morrison County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Morrison 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 25 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including one National Historic Landmark. A supplementary list includes two additional sites that were formerly on the National Register.

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	Ayer Mission Site		June 18, 1973 (#73000984)	Address restricted	Belle Prairie Township	Site of an 1849 farmhouse and mission school.
2	Belle Prairie Village Site		August 14, 1973 (#73000985)	Address restricted	Belle Prairie Township	Precolumbian village site on the Mississippi River.
3	Bridge No. 4969		January 21, 2015 (#14001175)	TH 115 & BNSFRR over Mississippi R. 46°04′28″N 94°20′06″W	Camp Ripley vicinity	Minnesota's only unified road–rail bridge, built in 1930 as the key transportation connection for Camp Ripley, the state's first and most significant Minnesota National Guard reservation.
4	Burton-Rosenmeier House		March 13, 1986 (#86000328)	606 1st St., SE. 45°58′15″N 94°21′53″W	Little Falls	Little Falls' leading example of Neoclassical architecture, built c. 1900 and owned successively by notable local merchant Barney Burton and attorney/politician Christian Rosenmeier. Now houses the Little Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau.
5	Church of Our Savior-Episcopal		July 17, 1980 (#80002090)	113 4th St., NE. 45°58′36″N 94°21′29″W	Little Falls	1903 Tudor Revival church significant as a leading example of Minnesota's second generation of Episcopal churches.
6	Crow Wing State Park		July 28, 1970 (#70000288)	Off Minnesota Highway 371 46°16′39″N 94°20′40″W	Brainerd vicinity	Long-used site at a key travel junction associated with the Dakota/Ojibwe territorial conflict and the early town of Old Crow Wing, whose abandonment in the 1880s uniquely preserves the succession of the Native American, fur trade, and logging eras. Extends into Cass and Crow Wing Counties.
7	Fort Duquesne (21-MO-20)		November 15, 1984 (#84000452)	Address restricted 46°00′46″N 94°21′30″W	Little Falls vicinity	Site where explorer Joseph Marin de la Malgue wintered c. 1752.
8	Fort Ripley		September 10, 1971 (#71000439)	Off Minnesota Highway 115 46°10′32″N 94°22′23″W	Camp Ripley Military Reservation	Site of an 1849 military post—the second ever built in Minnesota—to keep the peace among the Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk.
9	Charles A. Lindbergh House and Park		November 20, 1970 (#70000303)	1620 Lindbergh Dr. S. 45°57′29″N 94°23′16″W	Little Falls vicinity	1907 house and farm of Congressman Charles August Lindbergh and his son, aviator Charles Lindbergh. Now a state park and Minnesota Historical Society site.
10	Charles A. Lindbergh State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources		October 25, 1989 (#89001655)	Off County Highway 52, south of Little Falls 45°57′27″N 94°23′25″W	Little Falls vicinity	Park facilities significant as examples of New Deal federal work relief, state park development, and National Park Service rustic design, with six contributing properties built 1938–39.
11	Little Falls Carnegie Library		November 3, 1980 (#80002091)	108 3rd St., NE. 45°58′36″N 94°21′31″W	Little Falls	1905 Carnegie library noted for its high state of preservation and atypical American Craftsman architecture.
12	Little Falls Commercial Historic District		July 22, 1994 (#94000740)	Roughly 1st St., SE. from 1st Ave, SE. to 1st Ave., NE. 45°58′35″N 94°21′45″W	Little Falls	Downtown commercial district reflecting Little Falls' abrupt evolution from an agricultural trade center to a lumber and industrial powerhouse, with 32 contributing properties built 1887–1936.
13	Morrison County Courthouse		December 5, 1978 (#78001552)	107 2nd St., SE. 45°58′32″N 94°21′38″W	Little Falls	County courthouse built 1890–91, noted for its impressive Richardsonian Romanesque architecture of local brick and granite.
14	Northern Pacific Railway Depot		September 5, 1985 (#85001987)	200 1st St., NW. 45°58′42″N 94°22′11″W	Little Falls	Shingle Style railway station built 1899–1900, one of architect Cass Gilbert's last projects while in Minnesota and a symbol of the highly influential Northern Pacific Railway.
15	Our Lady of the Angels Academy		December 28, 2005 (#05001474)	18801 Riverwood Dr. 46°02′05″N 94°20′18″W	Belle Prairie Township	1911 parochial elementary school building enlarged in 1931, a local example of the nationally influential Catholic school system and anchor of the Belle Prairie community.
16	Pelkey Lake Site		October 2, 1973 (#73000986)	Address restricted	Belle Prairie Township	Mounds built between 5000 BCE and 1700 CE.
17	Zebulon Pike's 1805-1806 Wintering Quarters		July 11, 1988 (#88000538)	Address restricted	Little Falls vicinity	Site of the fortified winter camp of Zebulon Pike's first expedition.
18	Pine Tree Lumber Company Office Building		September 5, 1985 (#85001991)	735 1st St., NE. 45°59′04″N 94°21′39″W	Little Falls	1891 office building, the only intact surviving structure of Frederick Weyerhaeuser's Minnesota lumber company (active 1890–1919), one of the state's largest and the major employer in Little Falls.
19	Rice Lake Prehistoric District		October 2, 1973 (#73000987)	Address restricted	Little Falls vicinity	1000 BCE–1700 CE habitation and mound site.
20	St. Joseph's Church-Catholic		September 5, 1985 (#85001998)	Main St. 45°58′48″N 94°06′12″W	Pierz	Gothic Revival church built 1886–88 for a German Catholic community attracted by Father Francis Xavier Pierz in the late 1860s.
21	Stanchfield Logging Camp		February 12, 1999 (#99000190)	Address restricted	Camp Ripley Military Reservation	Site of an early commercial logging camp, active over the winter of 1847–48.
22	Swan River Village Site		October 2, 1973 (#73000988)	Address restricted	Little Falls vicinity	Site of an Ojibwe village on the Mississippi River, recorded by Joseph Nicollet in 1836.
23	William Warren Two Rivers House Site and Peter McDougall Farmstead		December 7, 1974 (#74001031)	County Road 231 45°50′36″N 94°20′49″W	Royalton vicinity	1874 farmstead on the site of William Whipple Warren's c. 1847 trading post.
24	Charles A. Weyerhaeuser and Musser Houses		September 5, 1985 (#85001990)	Highland Ave. 45°58′15″N 94°21′59″W	Little Falls	Adjoining 1898 houses of second-generation lumber magnates, symbolizing the Minnesota lumber industry and its domination by a few powerful individuals. Now Linden Hill Historical Event Center.
25	Almond A. White House		March 13, 1986 (#86000330)	Cleveland and Beaulieu Sts. 46°20′10″N 94°38′28″W	Motley	1902 house with a four-story tower, noted for its prominent and locally unusual Queen Anne architecture.

Former listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Date removed	Location	City or town	Summary
1	O. A. Churchill Store		September 5, 1985 (#85001988)	May 7, 1990	55 Bay St.	Little Falls	Long the oldest commercial building in Central Minnesota, built in 1855. Demolished in 1988.
2	Clough Township Hall		September 8, 1985 (#85001985)	September 29, 2004	CR 206	Randall vicinity	1922 Classical Revival meeting hall sided with sheet metal embossed to look like stone. Moved in 2001.