National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis County, Minnesota facts for kids
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Saint Louis 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 130 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including three National Historic Landmarks. A supplementary list includes two additional sites that were formerly on the National Register.
Many of Saint Louis County's listings are associated with the city of Duluth's role as the westernmost port on the Great Lakes, shared with Superior, Wisconsin. The iron ore of the Mesabi Range and the Vermilion Range led to the development of the cities of Chisholm, Hibbing, Virginia, and Ely. Three of the iron mines are National Historic Landmarks: Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, Mountain Iron Mine, and the underground Soudan Iron Mine.
Current listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description | |
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| 1 | Aerial Lift Bridge |
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(#73002174) |
Lake Avenue 46°46′44″N 92°05′34″W / 46.77897°N 92.092896°W |
Duluth | Iconic bridge serving as the western gateway to the Great Lakes, originating in 1905 as a rare transporter bridge but modified 1929–30 into a vertical-lift bridge by C.A.P. Turner. |
| 2 | Elias and Lisi Aho Historic Farmstead |
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(#90000499) |
7410 Skarp Road 47°39′06″N 92°09′35″W / 47.651679°N 92.159683°W |
Embarrass vicinity | Farmstead with six contributing properties built 1902–07, reflecting the successful cultivation of northeastern Minnesota's cutover forests by Finnish American settlers and their use of traditional log architecture. |
| 3 | Alango School |
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(#80004338) |
9076 Highway 25 47°46′25″N 92°47′35″W / 47.773548°N 92.793027°W |
Cook vicinity | Large and well-preserved example of northern Minnesota's rural schools, built in 1927 with faculty living quarters owing to its remoteness. |
| 4 | Andrew G. Anderson House |
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(#80004348) |
1001 E. Howard Street 47°25′40″N 92°55′46″W / 47.427848°N 92.929546°W |
Hibbing | 1920 Colonial/Spanish Revival house built for a pioneer in the intercity bus transportation industry. |
| 5 | Androy Hotel |
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(#86001290) |
592 E. Howard Street 47°25′38″N 92°56′10″W / 47.427214°N 92.936233°W |
Hibbing | Prominent Renaissance Revival hotel built in 1921 by the Oliver Iron Mining Company. Also a contributing property to the East Howard Street Commercial Historic District. |
| 6 | Archaeological Site No. 21SL82 |
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(#88000067) |
Address restricted |
Voyageurs National Park | Campsite used c. 3000 BCE–1900 CE. |
| 7 | Archeological Site 21SL35 |
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(#87002165) |
Address restricted |
Voyageurs National Park | Large beach site exclusively occupied by the Laurel Complex of the early Woodland period, with what may be the earliest evidence of wild rice use in Minnesota. Also known as the Clyde Creek Site. |
| 8 | Archeological Site 21SL55 |
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(#88000989) |
Address restricted |
Voyageurs National Park | Island site exclusively occupied by the Blackduck culture of the late Woodland period, with a possible ricing jig and other subsurface features. |
| 9 | Archeological Site 21SL141 |
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(#87002164) |
Address restricted |
Voyageurs National Park | Habitation site occupied c. 300–1900 CE. |
| 10 | Archeological Site No. 21SL73 |
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(#88003130) |
Address restricted |
Voyageurs National Park | Seasonal campsite used 100 BCE–1500 CE. |
| 11 | B'nai Abraham Synagogue |
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(#80004356) |
328 S. 5th Street 47°31′07″N 92°32′11″W / 47.518516°N 92.536367°W |
Virginia | 1909 synagogue, attesting both to the ethnic diversity of the Iron Range and to the commonality of its immigrant groups maintaining cohesion around religious centers. |
| 12 | W. Bailey House |
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(#80004347) |
705 Pierce Street 47°27′47″N 92°32′04″W / 47.462999°N 92.534527°W |
Eveleth | 1905 house noted as Eveleth's leading example of Queen Anne architecture. |
| 13 | W.T. Bailey House |
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(#80004357) |
816 S. 5th Avenue 47°30′59″N 92°32′17″W / 47.516306°N 92.538089°W |
Virginia | Distinctive Spanish Colonial Revival house built circa 1921 for the wealthy founder of Virginia's second largest lumber company. |
| 14 | Bridge No. 5757 |
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(#98000720) |
MN 23 over Mission Creek 46°39′38″N 92°16′32″W / 46.660479°N 92.275608°W |
Duluth | Well-crafted 1937 arch bridge with a modular metal substructure, masonry veneer, and Gothic Revival detailing. |
| 15 | Bridge No. L-6007 |
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(#89001826) |
Skyline Parkway over Stewart Creek 46°42′13″N 92°13′41″W / 46.703532°N 92.228047°W |
Duluth | Circa-1925 stone arch bridge singled out for its highly picturesque design and setting in a city park. |
| 16 | Bridge No. L6113 |
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(#16000872) |
East 4th Street over Tischer Creek in Congdon Park 46°49′10″N 92°03′48″W / 46.8194°N 92.0632°W |
Duluth | Striking example of Neoclassical and rustic architecture applied to a bridge, built in 1925 with a reinforced concrete substructure and a veneer of local gabbro masonry to complement its park setting. |
| 17 | Bridge No. L8515 |
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(#16000873) |
Lewis Street over Tischer Creek 46°49′46″N 92°04′21″W / 46.8294°N 92.0725°W |
Duluth | Striking example of rustic architecture applied to a bridge, built in 1922 with a reinforced concrete substructure and a veneer of local gabbro masonry to complement its park-like setting. |
| 18 | Bruce Mine Headframe |
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(#78003124) |
off U.S. Highway 169 47°28′38″N 92°51′54″W / 47.477126°N 92.865087°W |
Chisholm | The last surviving example of the Mesabi Range's once numerous headframes, built 1925–26 when underground mining rather than open-pit mining was still the norm. |
| 19 | Buhl Public Library |
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(#83004605) |
400 Jones Avenue 47°29′45″N 92°46′34″W / 47.495893°N 92.776108°W |
Buhl | 1917 public library financed by local mining revenue to serve the educational and cultural needs of a multi-ethnic company town. |
| 20 | Buhl Village Hall |
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(#83000944) |
300 Jones Avenue 47°29′44″N 92°46′40″W / 47.495531°N 92.777765°W |
Buhl | Well preserved early-20th-century Beaux-Arts municipal hall—built in 1913—and Buhl's long-serving seat of government. |
| 21 | Bull-of-the-Woods Logging Scow |
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(#99000189) |
Hoist Bay, Burntside Lake 47°53′45″N 92°01′33″W / 47.895897°N 92.025903°W |
Morse Township | Wreck of a circa-1893 timber rafting scow, the only known example of a distinctive and little-documented vessel type instrumental to the northern Minnesota logging industry. |
| 22 | Burntside Lodge Historic District |
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(#88000896) |
2755 Burntside Lodge Road 47°55′28″N 91°57′08″W / 47.924309°N 91.95231°W |
Ely | Northern St. Louis County's first full-scale commercial resort and finest collection of log resort buildings, with 19 contributing properties built from 1914 to the mid-1930s. |
| 23 | Emmett Butler House |
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(#80004349) |
2530 3rd Avenue W. 47°25′14″N 92°56′39″W / 47.420582°N 92.944202°W |
Hibbing | 1916 house noted for its Colonial Revival architecture and association with Emmett Butler, a local leader and an executive in Minnesota's influential Butler Brothers Construction Company. |
| 24 | Chester Terrace |
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(#80004341) |
1210–1232 E. 1st Street 46°47′58″N 92°05′00″W / 46.799472°N 92.083395°W |
Duluth | Outstanding local example of a Romanesque Revival rowhouse, designed by Oliver G. Traphagen and Francis W. Fitzpatrick and constructed in 1890. |
| 25 | Chisholm Commercial Historic District |
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(#16000512) |
W. Lake St. between Central Ave. & 4th Ave., east side of Central Ave between 1st St. NE. & 1st St. SE. 47°29′21″N 92°52′55″W / 47.489175°N 92.882008°W |
Chisholm | Four-block commercial district associated with the development of Chisholm as an economic and social hub on the Mesabi Range, with 55 contributing properties built 1908–1925. |
| 26 | Church of St. John the Baptist (Catholic) |
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(#80004362) |
309 S. 3rd Avenue 47°31′15″N 92°32′09″W / 47.520744°N 92.535921°W |
Virginia | 1924 church that anchored Virginia's Polish American community. Demolished in 2018. |
| 27 | Church of St. Joseph (Catholic) |
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(#02000940) |
7897 Elmer Road 47°05′01″N 92°46′37″W / 47.083683°N 92.777047°W |
Elmer | 1913 church and adjacent cemetery associated with corporate efforts to settle northern Minnesota once it had been cleared of valuable timber. |
| 28 | Church of the Holy Family (Catholic) |
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(#80004345) |
307 Adams Avenue 47°27′45″N 92°32′18″W / 47.462625°N 92.538368°W |
Eveleth | 1909 church that anchored a Slovene American congregation, one of Eveleth's major ethnic groups. |
| 29 | Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-52 |
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(#89000158) |
off U.S. Highway 53 48°06′05″N 92°50′39″W / 48.101389°N 92.844167°W |
Cusson | Four workshops constructed around 1933 for a Civilian Conservation Corps forestry camp, the only surviving buildings in the area built for the agency. |
| 30 | Coates House |
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(#80004358) |
817 S. 5th Avenue 47°30′58″N 92°32′20″W / 47.516226°N 92.538807°W |
Virginia | Lavish house built circa 1912, telegraphing the social status of the succession of lumber industry elites who resided in it. |
| 31 | Chester and Clara Congdon Estate |
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(#91001057) |
3300 London Road 46°48′55″N 92°03′06″W / 46.815167°N 92.051793°W |
Duluth | Duluth's finest mansion and grounds, better known as Glensheen Historic Estate; built 1905–1920 in Jacobethan style by Clarence H. Johnston Sr. with landscape architecture by Charles Wellford Leavitt. Now a museum. |
| 32 | Delvic Building |
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(#80004350) |
102 E. Howard Street 47°25′38″N 92°56′30″W / 47.427131°N 92.941788°W |
Hibbing | 1922 commercial building originating from the Oliver Iron Mining Company's unusual step of designing the business as well as the residential districts of a company town. Also a contributing property to the East Howard Street Commercial Historic District. |
| 33 | DeWitt-Seitz Building |
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(#85001999) |
394 Lake Avenue S. 46°46′55″N 92°05′40″W / 46.781941°N 92.094526°W |
Duluth | Rare surviving example of the manufacturing and jobbing factories that once populated Duluth's early-20th-century waterfront, built in 1909 in exemplary Chicago School style. |
| 34 | Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Company Passenger Station |
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(#13000380) |
404 Pine Street 47°48′16″N 92°16′45″W / 47.80442°N 92.2791°W |
Tower | 1915 railway station that spurred the resort and tourism industry on Lake Vermilion in the decades before highway access. Nomination includes a section of rail and several train cars. Now a museum. |
| 35 | Duluth Armory |
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(#11000324) |
1301–1305 London Road 46°47′56″N 92°04′50″W / 46.799015°N 92.080651°W |
Duluth | 1915 National Guard and naval militia armory, home base of a critical port's peacekeeping and disaster response forces, as well as Duluth's largest cultural event venue until 1966. |
| 36 | Duluth Central High School |
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(#72001488) |
215 N. 1st Avenue E. 46°47′21″N 92°06′01″W / 46.789029°N 92.100226°W |
Duluth | 1892 school building with a prominent clock tower, a major Duluth landmark and one of Minnesota's finest examples of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. |
| 37 | Duluth Civic Center Historic District |
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(#86003097) |
5th Avenue West and 1st Street 46°47′00″N 92°06′23″W / 46.783333°N 92.106389°W |
Duluth | Government complex associated with architect and urban designer Daniel Burnham and the City Beautiful movement, with five contributing properties built 1909–1929. |
| 38 | Duluth Commercial Historic District |
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(#06000455) |
Superior and 1st Streets between 4th Avenue West and 4th Avenue East 46°47′14″N 92°05′56″W / 46.787264°N 92.098764°W |
Duluth | Business district nine blocks long and two wide, representing Duluth's commercial development and popular architectural styles at the turn of the 20th century, with 87 contributing properties built 1872–1929. |
| 39 | Duluth Harbor North Pier Light |
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(#16000340) |
East end of Duluth Ship Canal North Pier 46°46′51″N 92°05′18″W / 46.780912°N 92.088272°W |
Duluth | 1910 lighthouse, associated with federal efforts to establish nationwide navigational aids, and characteristic of the early-20th-century pier and breakwater lights built around the Great Lakes. |
| 40 | Duluth Harbor South Breakwater Outer Light |
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(#16000341) |
East end of Duluth Ship Canal South Breakwater 46°46′48″N 92°05′16″W / 46.780082°N 92.087778°W |
Duluth | 1901 lighthouse, associated with federal efforts to establish nationwide navigational aids, and characteristic of early-20th-century harbor breakwater lights built around the Great Lakes. |
| 41 | Duluth Masonic Temple |
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(#15000215) |
4 W. 2nd St. 46°47′17″N 92°06′01″W / 46.787929°N 92.100304°W |
Duluth | 1905 Masonic Temple, the longstanding focal point of Duluth's most influential fraternal organization. Further noted for containing Minnesota's largest operable collection of hand-painted stage backdrops. |
| 42 | Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Depot (Endion) |
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(#75002088) |
100 Lake Place 46°47′11″N 92°05′42″W / 46.78632°N 92.095082°W |
Duluth | 1899 Richardsonian Romanesque train station, one of Duluth's few surviving small passenger depots and a seminal work of local architect I. Vernon Hill. Moved to Canal Park in 1986. |
| 43 | Duluth Public Library |
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(#78003125) |
101 W. 2nd Street 46°47′14″N 92°06′08″W / 46.787311°N 92.102262°W |
Duluth | Duluth's first purpose-built library, constructed in 1902 with Carnegie funds; noted for its Neoclassical architecture and association with early community education efforts. |
| 44 | Duluth South Breakwater Inner (Duluth Range Rear) Lighthouse |
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(#83000945) |
South Breakwater 46°46′43″N 92°05′31″W / 46.778698°N 92.091992°W |
Duluth | Lighthouse built 1900–1901, one of the federal navigation aids essential to the development of the Great Lakes as the nation's most important transportation system in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
| 45 | Duluth State Normal School Historic District |
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(#85002757) |
E. 5th Street 46°48′45″N 92°04′35″W / 46.812466°N 92.076427°W |
Duluth | Nominated as Minnesota's most intact state normal school campus, with four contributing properties built 1898–1926. Now part of the University of Minnesota Duluth. The Beaux-Arts Old Main was reduced to freestanding remnants after a 1993 fire. |
| 46 | Duluth Union Depot |
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(#71001028) |
5th Avenue W. and Michigan Street 46°46′53″N 92°06′15″W / 46.781335°N 92.104059°W |
Duluth | 1892 Châteauesque train station designed by Peabody and Stearns, a unique example of the era's large railroad terminals and the connection they provided to the rest of the nation. Now houses a variety of cultural institutions. |
| 47 | Duluth, Winnipeg, and Pacific Depot |
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(#80004364) |
600 Chestnut Street 47°31′23″N 92°32′28″W / 47.523128°N 92.541119°W |
Virginia | Distinctive 1913 train station, symbolizing Virginia's importance as a major entry point to the Mesabi Range and its dependence on rail transport to deliver goods and workers and ship out ore. |
| 48 | East Howard Street Commercial Historic District |
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(#93000255) |
101–510 E. Howard Street 47°25′39″N 92°56′21″W / 47.427445°N 92.939186°W |
Hibbing | Four-block business district with 34 contributing properties built 1919–1925, planned and executed by the Oliver Iron Mining Company upon relocating Hibbing to expand its operations. |
| 49 | Ely Community Center |
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(#16000280) |
30 S. 1st Ave. East 47°54′06″N 91°51′55″W / 47.901667°N 91.865139°W |
Ely | 1938 multi-purpose public building, a long-serving municipal and social venue exemplifying local partnerships with the Public Works Administration and PWA Moderne architecture. |
| 50 | Ely State Theater |
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(#15000440) |
234 E. Sheridan St. 47°54′11″N 91°51′46″W / 47.903°N 91.862889°W |
Ely | 1936 Streamline Moderne theater, epitomizing the small-town commissions of leading regional theater designers Liebenberg & Kaplan. |
| 51 | Endion School |
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(#83000946) |
1801 E. 1st Street 46°48′19″N 92°04′37″W / 46.805298°N 92.076911°W |
Duluth | Duluth's most architecturally significant surviving Late Victorian school, built in Richardsonian Romanesque style in 1890. |
| 52 | Engine House No. 1 |
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(#75002089) |
101 E. 3rd Street 46°47′25″N 92°06′01″W / 46.790169°N 92.100331°W |
Duluth | 1889 example of Duluth's late-19th-century fire stations and a symbol of the transition from a volunteer fire department to a professional municipal agency. Boundary expanded to include the adjacent 1889 stable/shop building. |
| 53 | Eveleth Manual Training School |
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(#80004343) |
Roosevelt Avenue 47°27′51″N 92°32′00″W / 47.464159°N 92.533261°W |
Eveleth | Minnesota's first vocational school, built in 1914 to prepare local workers for the increasing mechanization of the mining industry. Also noted for its Modern architecture. |
| 54 | Eveleth Recreation Building |
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(#80004344) |
Garfield Street and Adams Avenue 47°27′59″N 92°32′20″W / 47.466437°N 92.538882°W |
Eveleth | Building constructed in 1918 as a municipal gymnasium serving male mine workers, but converted in 1947 into a shirt factory as the female population increased and women sought employment. |
| 55 | Finnish Sauna |
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(#80004360) |
105 S. 1st Street 47°31′21″N 92°31′54″W / 47.522497°N 92.531662°W |
Virginia | Commercial Finnish sauna built circa 1912, representing the impact of and services developed for Finnish Americans populating the Iron Range cities. |
| 56 | First National Bank of Gilbert |
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(#12000415) |
2 N. Broadway 47°29′15″N 92°28′00″W / 47.487557°N 92.466694°W |
Gilbert | 1920 bank noted for its prominent Neoclassical architecture and commercial impact, particularly on the local agricultural sector. |
| 57 | Fitger Brewing Company |
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(#84001690) |
600 E. Superior Street 46°47′33″N 92°05′26″W / 46.792502°N 92.090535°W |
Duluth | Complex of Duluth's oldest continually operated brewery, active 1859–1974, with ten contributing properties built 1886–1920 representing Duluth's late-19th/early-20th-century industrial architecture. |
| 58 | Flint Creek Farm Historic District |
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(#89000139) |
State Highway 1 47°51′45″N 92°48′36″W / 47.862492°N 92.809914°W |
Cook vicinity | One of only two known surviving Minnesota farmsteads established to supply a major lumber company with provisions for its workers and livestock, with four contributing properties built circa 1910–1915. |
| 59 | Jun Fujita Cabin |
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(#96001351) |
Wendt Island, Rainy Lake 48°32′59″N 92°52′11″W / 48.549828°N 92.869838°W |
Voyageurs National Park | 1928 lake cabin of Japanese American photographer and poet Jun Fujita (1888–1963). Also a rare surviving example of the early recreational development of the Boundary Waters. |
| 60 | Gregorius and Mary Hanka Historic Farmstead |
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(#90000500) |
7938 Pylka Road 47°41′24″N 92°12′10″W / 47.689878°N 92.202826°W |
Embarrass Township | Farmstead with six contributing properties built circa 1910–1915, reflecting the agricultural efforts and traditional log architecture of the area's Finnish American settlers. |
| 61 | Hartley Building |
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(#89002127) |
740 E. Superior Street 46°47′39″N 92°05′18″W / 46.794246°N 92.088314°W |
Duluth | 1914 Tudor Revival office building designed by Bertram Goodhue, the only nationally recognized architect to complete multiple commissions in early Duluth. |
| 62 | Height of Land Portage |
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(#92000842) |
off County Road 138 in Embarrass, White, and Pike Townships 47°36′49″N 92°18′06″W / 47.613611°N 92.301667°W |
Embarrass vicinity | 4.6-mile (7.4 km) portage route over the Laurentian Divide with potential archaeological resources, associated with the fur trade and European expansion from the 1630s to the 1870s. |
| 63 | Hibbing City Hall |
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(#81000683) |
401 E. 21st Street 47°25′36″N 92°56′14″W / 47.426685°N 92.937282°W |
Hibbing | 1922 Colonial Revival city hall, one of northern Minnesota's most architecturally distinctive public buildings and the longstanding seat of government for a major Iron Range community. |
| 64 | Hibbing Disposal Plant |
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(#91001022) |
1300 E. 23rd Street 47°25′30″N 92°54′56″W / 47.425017°N 92.915545°W |
Hibbing | Sewage treatment plant built 1938–39, one of northern Minnesota's largest PWA projects and an example of the modern sanitation facilities funded by the New Deal. |
| 65 | Hibbing High School |
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(#80004351) |
800 E. 21st Street 47°25′32″N 92°55′57″W / 47.425658°N 92.932529°W |
Hibbing | School built 1919–1924, noted for its lavish Jacobethan architecture and association with the mutual desire by corporations and residents for improved public education as the mining industry mechanized. |
| 66 | Matt and Emma Hill Historic Farmstead |
(#90000768) |
6206 Honkola Road 47°39′21″N 92°19′56″W / 47.655881°N 92.332143°W |
Embarrass vicinity | Farmstead with eight contributing properties built circa-1897–1903, reflecting the pivot of St. Louis County's Finnish immigrants from industrial labor to agriculture, and their use of traditional log architecture. | |
| 67 | Hotel Glode |
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(#80004346) |
222 Adams Avenue 47°27′44″N 92°32′16″W / 47.462349°N 92.53767°W |
Eveleth | Leading 1904 hotel which served as a major depot on the Mesaba Railway, active 1912–1927 as the first interurban mass transit system developed on the Iron Range. |
| 68 | Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine |
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(#66000904) |
3rd Avenue E. 47°27′10″N 92°57′40″W / 47.452778°N 92.961111°W |
Hibbing | World's largest iron mine and one of its first open-pits, whose prodigious output since its 1895 establishment made Minnesota the nation's largest iron ore producer and the U.S. the largest steel manufacturer. |
| 69 | William Ingersoll Estate |
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(#11000360) |
Ingersoll's Island, Crane Lake 48°21′16″N 92°28′23″W / 48.354351°N 92.473104°W |
Voyageurs National Park | 1920s island summer home complex, whose 1928 main cabin was a rare surviving E. F. Hodgson Company prefabricated kit house. Collapsed in 2014 and subsequently removed. |
| 70 | Irving School |
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(#92001611) |
101 N. 56th Avenue W. 46°44′07″N 92°10′07″W / 46.73539°N 92.16855°W |
Duluth | Well-preserved 1895 school noted for its early Renaissance Revival design by Palmer, Hall, & Hunt and its association with the expansion and evolution of the Duluth school system. |
| 71 | Jukola Boardinghouse |
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(#82004710) |
201 N. 3rd Avenue 47°31′29″N 92°32′05″W / 47.524772°N 92.534666°W |
Virginia | 1912 boarding house, a well-preserved example of the many such facilities built to accommodate the influx of unmarried men to work the Iron Range mines. |
| 72 | Kabetogama Ranger Station District |
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(#93000479) |
Southwestern shore of Kabetogama Lake in Voyageurs National Park 48°26′43″N 93°01′44″W / 48.445278°N 93.028889°W |
Kabetogama | Complex built 1933–1941 for the Minnesota Division of Forestry by the Civilian Conservation Corps, an example of federal work relief projects during the Great Depression and National Park Service rustic architecture. |
| 73 | Kettle Falls Historic District |
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(#78000376) |
Kettle Channel in Voyageurs National Park 48°30′05″N 92°38′25″W / 48.501389°N 92.640278°W |
Island View vicinity | Dam, two log buildings, and hotel built circa-1910–1914 at a key portage on the Canada–United States border, an isolated nexus of industry and tourism in the Boundary Waters wilderness. |
| 74 | Kettle Falls Hotel |
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(#76000210) |
Kettle Channel in Voyageurs National Park 48°30′11″N 92°38′24″W / 48.502925°N 92.639862°W |
Island View vicinity | 1913 hotel built to provide lodging and meals to commercial fishermen, lumberjacks, buyers, and tourists at a key portage deep in a roadless area. |
| 75 | Kitchi Gammi Club |
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(#75002090) |
831 E. Superior Street 46°47′43″N 92°05′16″W / 46.795397°N 92.087772°W |
Duluth | 1912 clubhouse noted for its fine Georgian/Gothic Revival design by Bertram Goodhue and its superlative craftsmanship. |
| 76 | LaSalle Apartments |
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(#100001845) |
201 N 5th Ave. 47°31′27″N 92°32′18″W / 47.524268°N 92.538293°W |
Virginia | 1924 apartment building exemplifying the emergence of multi-unit housing for middle-class urbanites in the early 20th century. |
| 77 | LeMoine Building |
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(#89000140) |
off County Road 74 47°58′06″N 92°48′37″W / 47.968383°N 92.810247°W |
Gheen | One of northern Minnesota's few surviving examples of the once-common false-fronted commercial building—constructed in 1913—and the most intact historic building in the lumber-era townsite of Gheen. |
| 78 | Charles Lenont House |
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(#80004359) |
202 N. 5th Avenue 47°31′27″N 92°32′21″W / 47.524232°N 92.539076°W |
Virginia | Large 1900 house, Virginia's best-preserved example of Queen Anne architecture and a manifestation of the class distinctions telegraphed by housing type on the early Iron Range. |
| 79 | Lester River Bridge-Bridge No. 5772 |
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(#02000934) |
London Road over the Lester River 46°50′12″N 92°00′22″W / 46.836677°N 92.006196°W |
Duluth | Concrete arch bridge built 1924–25, significant for its Neoclassical architecture, impressive 103.5-foot (31.5 m) span, and association with the opening of the highway along the scenic North Shore. |
| 80 | Adolph Levin Cottage |
(#11000361) |
Kabetogama Narrows near Ash River Maintenance Dock 48°26′05″N 92°51′22″W / 48.434653°N 92.855993°W |
Voyageurs National Park | Representative early-20th-century lake retreat with a 1937 log cabin noted for its rustic architecture and traditional Finnish construction. | |
| 81 | Lincoln Branch Library |
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(#12001175) |
2229 W. 2nd Street 46°46′00″N 92°07′44″W / 46.766698°N 92.129019°W |
Duluth | 1917 Carnegie library reflecting the evolving emphasis of the Carnegie Foundation and Duluth Public Library on branch libraries and providing services in working-class neighborhoods. |
| 82 | Lincoln School Building |
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(#78003130) |
225 1st Street N. 47°31′28″N 92°32′04″W / 47.524359°N 92.534403°W |
Virginia | Highly intact 1922 school exemplifying the Jacobean Revival architecture favored for educational buildings in the early 20th century. |
| 83 | Listening Point |
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(#07001316) |
3128 Van Vac Road 47°54′11″N 92°01′01″W / 47.903182°N 92.017083°W |
Ely vicinity | Lake retreat of nationally renowned wilderness conservation advocate Sigurd F. Olson (1899–1982), with a cabin, sauna, and three other contributing properties. |
| 84 | E.J. Longyear First Diamond Drill Site |
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(#77001526) |
6500 County Road 666 47°33′27″N 92°07′00″W / 47.557536°N 92.116688°W |
Hoyt Lakes | 1890 site of the very first exploration diamond drilling on the Mesabi Range, the beginning of a mining industry pivotal to the history of Minnesota and the United States. Now an Iron Range Historical Society park with replica equipment. |
| 85 | Mike and Mary Matson Historic Farmstead |
(#90000769) |
7776 Hanka Nevala Road 47°40′42″N 92°12′16″W / 47.678216°N 92.204537°W |
Embarrass Township | 1900 farmstead with seven contributing properties, embodying the traditional log architecture and successful conversion of cutover woodland by the area's Finnish American settlers. | |
| 86 | May Flower (shipwreck) |
(#12000560) |
2.25 miles south of Lester River in Lake Superior 46°48′12″N 92°00′40″W / 46.803248°N 92.011061°W |
Lester Park vicinity | Wreck of an 1887 scow schooner lost in 1891, an important example of a fairly common but little documented type of Great Lakes merchant vessel. | |
| 87 | Mesaba Co-operative Park |
(#100003961) |
3827 Mesaba Park Rd. 47°23′41″N 92°47′47″W / 47.3946°N 92.7963°W |
Hibbing vicinity | 160-acre (65 ha) park established as a cooperative retreat for Finnish Americans in 1928, with 17 contributing properties built 1928–1959. Also significant as a center of radical politics and the Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party, and a target of the Red Scare. | |
| 88 | Minnesota Point Lighthouse |
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(#74002206) |
Minnesota Point 46°42′36″N 92°01′33″W / 46.710023°N 92.025848°W |
Duluth | Ruins of the first high-powered lighthouse on Lake Superior, active 1858–1878, and the zero-point for all original surveys of the lake. |
| 89 | Mitchell-Tappan House |
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(#80004352) |
2145 4th Avenue 47°25′31″N 92°56′18″W / 47.425178°N 92.938253°W |
Hibbing | Large 1905 house built as a residence for Oliver Iron Mining Company executives, reflecting the sumptuous lifestyle enjoyed by an elite few in the early mining era. Now a bed and breakfast. |
| 90 | Bergetta Moe Bakery |
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(#76002175) |
716 E. Superior Street 46°47′36″N 92°05′22″W / 46.793413°N 92.08936°W |
Duluth | One of Duluth's oldest standing buildings, constructed circa 1875 in the simple wood-frame, gabled style that exemplified the city's first-generation architecture. |
| 91 | Monson's Hoist Bay Resort |
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(#11000362) |
Hoist Bay, Namakan Lake 48°25′05″N 92°44′55″W / 48.417969°N 92.748733°W |
Voyageurs National Park | Family-owned resort established in 1939 to serve the growing phenomenon of middle-class tourists, with nine contributing properties built 1941–1968. |
| 92 | Mountain Iron Mine |
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(#68000052) |
north of Mountain Iron 47°32′20″N 92°37′25″W / 47.538889°N 92.623611°W |
Mountain Iron | Open-pit mine active 1892–1956, the first mine opened on the Mesabi Range—the world's largest known iron ore deposit, which helped make Minnesota the nation's largest iron producer and the United States the largest steel manufacturer. |
| 93 | Munger Terrace |
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(#76002176) |
405 Mesaba Avenue 46°47′08″N 92°06′33″W / 46.785663°N 92.109198°W |
Duluth | One of Duluth's most architecturally significant apartment buildings, designed in Châteauesque style by Oliver G. Traphagen and Francis W. Fitzpatrick and constructed 1891–92. |
| 94 | Erick and Kristina Nelimark Sauna |
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(#90000770) |
4839 Salo Road 47°39′46″N 92°11′45″W / 47.662778°N 92.195833°W |
Embarrass | Finnish sauna built circa 1930, reflecting the area's settlement by Finnish American farmers and their use of traditional log construction. Part of the Nelimark Homestead Museum. |
| 95 | Northland |
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(#78003129) |
based at the Duluth Depot 46°46′53″N 92°06′15″W / 46.781335°N 92.104059°W |
Duluth | Nominated as one of the last operating private business railcars, built in 1916 for the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway to transport managers and important guests. Acquired by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in 2003. |
| 96 | Olcott Park Electric Fountain and Rock Garden |
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(#100001026) |
NW. quadrant of Olcott Park, 9th St. N. & 9th Ave. N. 47°31′47″N 92°33′05″W / 47.529831°N 92.551343°W |
Virginia | 1937 fountain and landscaping, significant as a unique and popular amenity produced by the Works Progress Administration and for its novel colored light display from General Electric. |
| 97 | Sigurd F. Olson Writing Shack |
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(#100005249) |
106 E. Wilson St. 47°53′44″N 91°51′54″W / 47.895525°N 91.865129°W |
Ely | One-room writing studio and rustic grounds of conservationist Sigurd F. Olson from 1937 until his death in 1982. Preserved as a museum by the Listening Point Foundation. |
| 98 | Orr Roadside Parking Area |
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(#02000937) |
U.S. Highway 53 at First Avenue 48°03′33″N 92°49′50″W / 48.05918°N 92.830685°W |
Orr | Exemplary early wayside rest developed 1935–38 by the Minnesota Department of Highways in collaboration with New Deal agencies. Also noted for its National Park Service rustic design by landscape architect Arthur R. Nichols. |
| 99 | Pioneer Mine Buildings and "A" Headframe |
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(#78003127) |
401 N. Pioneer Road 47°54′43″N 91°51′38″W / 47.911909°N 91.860659°W |
Ely | One of only two surviving examples of the Vermilion Range's numerous underground mine complexes, in operation 1889–1967. Now the Ely Arts & Heritage Center. |
| 100 | Anna and Mikko Pyhala Farm |
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(#03000521) |
4745 Salo Road 47°39′46″N 92°11′11″W / 47.662725°N 92.186403°W |
Embarrass | Highly intact farm with eight contributing properties built circa-1895–1931, reflecting the agricultural efforts and traditional log architecture of the area's Finnish American settlers. Now a visitor attraction. |
| 101 | Robert Wallace (bulk carrier) shipwreck site |
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(#09000828) |
7 miles south of Knife River 46°50′50″N 91°43′44″W / 46.847283°N 91.728933°W |
Palmers vicinity | Largely untouched wreck of an 1882 iron-reinforced wooden steam barge sunk in 1902, with significant research potential on the formative design and shipboard life of the first lake freighters. |
| 102 | Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sacred Heart School and Christian Brothers Home |
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(#86001382) |
206 and 211 W. Fourth Street, 315 N. 2nd Avenue W. 46°47′15″N 92°06′19″W / 46.787525°N 92.105293°W |
Duluth | Prominent Gothic Revival church—seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Duluth from 1896 to 1957—plus a 1904 school and (from boundary increase #05000446, listed May 19, 2005) a 1907 monastic faculty residence attesting to its educational efforts. |
| 103 | St. Louis County 4-H Club Camp |
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(#85000456) |
100 Pine Lane 47°28′25″N 92°20′48″W / 47.47374°N 92.346742°W |
Biwabik Township | 1934 camp complex noted for its exemplary log construction and unique origin, built with the prize money from a nationwide competition for the county with the best 4-H program. Now Camp Esquagama. |
| 104 | St. Louis County District Courthouse |
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(#92000798) |
300 S. 5th Avenue 47°31′15″N 92°32′16″W / 47.520833°N 92.537778°W |
Virginia | 1910 Beaux-Arts courthouse expanded in 1921, long-serving home of county government on the Iron Range following the creation of a separate judicial district on account of its distance from Duluth. |
| 105 | St. Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church |
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(#91000439) |
530 N. 5th Avenue E. 46°47′45″N 92°05′53″W / 46.79575°N 92.098188°W |
Duluth | Church serving as a religious and social center for Duluth's African-American community, completed in 1913 as the city's only building constructed by and for African Americans. |
| 106 | Saints Peter and Paul Church-Ukrainian Catholic |
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(#80004340) |
530 Central Avenue 47°29′01″N 92°52′44″W / 47.483514°N 92.878852°W |
Chisholm | Onion-domed 1916 church that anchored a Ukrainian American community, the final arrivals of the Iron Range's turn-of-the-20th-century immigration influx. |
| 107 | Alex Seitaniemi Housebarn |
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(#90000771) |
8162 Comet Road 47°42′25″N 92°08′16″W / 47.707042°N 92.137911°W |
Embarrass vicinity | Rare example of a housebarn, built circa 1907–1913; also noted for embodying the settlement and traditional log architecture of rural St. Louis County's Finnish American farmers. |
| 108 | Sons of Italy Hall |
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(#80004353) |
704 E. Howard Street 47°25′39″N 92°56′01″W / 47.427369°N 92.933604°W |
Hibbing | 1930 hall of an Italian American fraternal society, reflecting the diversity of the Iron Range immigrant population and the unique way Hibbing's Italian community organized around clubs rather than churches. |
| 109 | Soudan Iron Mine |
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(#66000905) |
Soudan Underground Mine State Park 47°49′10″N 92°14′32″W / 47.819336°N 92.242101°W |
Tower | The state's oldest and deepest iron mine, active 1884–1962, ushering in Minnesota's importance in iron ore production. Now a state park. |
| 110 | I.W. Stevens Lakeside Cottage |
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(#11000363) |
Stevens Island, Namakan Lake 48°26′30″N 92°44′50″W / 48.441548°N 92.747316°W |
Voyageurs National Park | Largely intact lake cabin complex established in 1932, with seven contributing properties; used as a year-round residence and a small-scale resort. |
| 111 | Stuntz Bay Boathouse Historic District |
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(#07000460) |
at the northern end of Stuntz Bay Road 47°49′34″N 92°14′11″W / 47.826025°N 92.236286°W |
Tower vicinity | Row of 145 boathouses mostly built 1900–1950 by Soudan Iron Mine employees, illustrating the personal lives of the miners and vernacular metal architecture. |
| 112 | Tanner's Hospital |
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(#80004342) |
204 E. Camp Street 47°54′14″N 91°51′49″W / 47.90398°N 91.863725°W |
Ely | 1901 commercial hospital built to capitalize on the high disease rate of the early Iron Range due to the mining boomtowns' low investment in sanitation infrastructure. |
| 113 | Waino Tanttari Field Hay Barn |
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(#90000773) |
8261 Wilen Road 47°42′38″N 92°09′43″W / 47.710489°N 92.161883°W |
Embarrass vicinity | Isolated 1935 log barn reflecting the conversion of northeastern Minnesota's cutover forests into farmland by late-19th and early-20th-century Finnish American settlers. |
| 114 | Thomas Wilson (Whaleback Freighter) Shipwreck |
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(#92000844) |
7/8 of a mile outside the Duluth Harbor entrance. 46°47′00″N 92°04′10″W / 46.783333°N 92.069444°W |
Duluth vicinity | 1892 freight steamer sunk in Duluth Harbor in 1902. Wreck is one of the best surviving examples of whaleback design. |
| 115 | Tower Fire Hall |
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(#80004355) |
Main Street 47°48′18″N 92°16′30″W / 47.805007°N 92.274937°W |
Tower | Oldest surviving fire station in the Iron Range cities, built circa 1895, reflecting the region's serious danger of and response to fires. |
| 116 | Oliver G. Traphagen House |
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(#75002091) |
1509–1511 E. Superior Street 46°48′06″N 92°04′46″W / 46.80173°N 92.079388°W |
Duluth | 1892 duplex designed and inhabited by Oliver G. Traphagen (1854–1932), recognized together with his business partner Francis W. Fitzpatrick as Duluth's leading architects of the late 19th century. |
| 117 | United States Army Corps of Engineers Duluth Vessel Yard |
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(#95001163) |
901 Minnesota Avenue 46°46′32″N 92°05′34″W / 46.775556°N 92.092778°W |
Duluth | Federal facility instrumental in developing and maintaining the harbor that underpins the Twin Ports economy, with 10 contributing properties largely intact since the 1940s. |
| 118 | US Fisheries Station, Duluth |
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(#78003126) |
6008 London Road 46°50′10″N 92°00′26″W / 46.836134°N 92.007236°W |
Duluth | Four-building fish hatchery complex exemplifying the Shingle and Stick styles popular during its 1880s construction; converted to a University of Minnesota Duluth research station in the 1950s. |
| 119 | USS Essex Shipwreck Site |
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(#94000342) |
Lake Superior 46°42′46″N 92°01′43″W / 46.712706°N 92.028608°W |
Duluth | Remains of a U.S Navy steam sloop active 1876–1903, scrapped and burned to the waterline in 1931. Only surviving remnants of a vessel by influential shipbuilder Donald McKay. |
| 120 | Valon Tuote Raittiusseura |
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(#79003199) |
125 3rd Street N. 47°31′34″N 92°31′58″W / 47.52612°N 92.532826°W |
Virginia | Long-serving meeting hall used by various Finnish American organizations, built around 1906 by a temperance society. |
| 121 | Virginia Brewery |
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(#80004363) |
305 S. 7th Avenue 47°31′16″N 92°32′34″W / 47.521117°N 92.542697°W |
Virginia | Distinctive 1905 example of the local breweries that contributed to the Iron Range's economic and (through athletic sponsorships) social life prior to Prohibition and competition from larger brands. |
| 122 | Virginia City Hall |
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(#04000539) |
327 1st Street S. 47°31′21″N 92°32′11″W / 47.52253°N 92.536324°W |
Virginia | 1923 city hall, the long-serving seat of Virginia's municipal government. |
| 123 | Virginia Commercial Historic District |
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(#97000020) |
Chestnut Street between 1st and 6th Avenues 47°31′23″N 92°32′09″W / 47.523189°N 92.535884°W |
Virginia | Representative early-20th-century business district and an artifact of Virginia's development as a mining boomtown and tourism gateway, with 78 contributing properties built 1900–1941. |
| 124 | Virginia-Rainy Lake Lumber Company Manager's Residence |
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(#80004361) |
402 and 404 S. 5th Avenue 47°31′13″N 92°32′18″W / 47.520204°N 92.538223°W |
Virginia | Well-appointed manager's residence built in 1910 by the area's largest lumber company, reflecting the social distance enforced between industry elites and laborers. |
| 125 | Virginia-Rainy Lake Lumber Company Office |
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(#80004365) |
731 3rd Street S. 47°31′14″N 92°32′38″W / 47.52061°N 92.543925°W |
Virginia | Circa-1907 headquarters of the region's largest lumber company, one of the Iron Range's few major industries aside from mining. |
| 126 | Virginia Recreation Building |
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(#82004711) |
305 1st Street S. 47°31′21″N 92°32′08″W / 47.522533°N 92.535444°W |
Virginia | Public sports facility built in 1923 to provide physical development opportunities for miners, converted to a shirt factory in 1947 to create jobs for women and diversify the local economy. |
| 127 | Western Bohemian Fraternal Union Hall |
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(#86002123) |
County Road 29 47°02′53″N 92°44′46″W / 47.048056°N 92.74611°W |
Meadowlands vicinity | 1925 Western Bohemian Fraternal Association meeting hall, a long-serving rural venue for the preservation of Czech American culture and heritage. |
| 128 | William A. Irvin (freighter) |
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(#89000858) |
Minnesota Slip in Duluth Harbor 46°46′58″N 92°05′50″W / 46.782801°N 92.097273°W |
Duluth | U.S. Steel's flagship lake freighter, in service 1938–1978; significant for its role in Great Lakes maritime commerce and its innovative design features. Now a museum ship. |
| 129 | Wirth Building |
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(#91000896) |
13 W. Superior Street 46°47′12″N 92°05′56″W / 46.786662°N 92.098925°W |
Duluth | Duluth's first Richardsonian Romanesque building—constructed in 1886—and a key early work of prominent local architect Oliver G. Traphagen. Also a contributing property to the Duluth Commercial Historic District. |
| 130 | YWCA of Duluth |
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(#11000325) |
202 W. 2nd Street 46°47′10″N 92°06′10″W / 46.7860°N 92.102739°W |
Duluth | 1908 headquarters of the Duluth YWCA, associated with local civic development through its social welfare efforts. |
Former listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Harris Hearding Grammar and High School and John A. Johnson Grammar School |
(#80004354) |
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intersection of 4th Avenue N. and First Street W. |
Aurora | 1912 and 1914 public schools. Demolished in 2001. | |
| 2 | Otto Johnson House |
(#80004354) |
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202 3rd Avenue |
Mountain Iron | Whimsical 1912 cottage, statuary, and landscaping of folk artist Otto Johnson. Fell into disrepair and demolished by later owner in 1997. |
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