National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis County, Minnesota facts for kids

Location of Saint Louis County in Minnesota

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.

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	Aerial Lift Bridge		May 22, 1973 (#73002174)	Lake Avenue 46°46′44″N 92°05′34″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		April 9, 1990 (#90000499)	7410 Skarp Road 47°39′06″N 92°09′35″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		July 17, 1980 (#80004338)	9076 Highway 25 47°46′25″N 92°47′35″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		December 4, 1980 (#80004348)	1001 E. Howard Street 47°25′40″N 92°55′46″W	Hibbing	1920 Colonial/Spanish Revival house built for a pioneer in the intercity bus transportation industry.
5	Androy Hotel		June 13, 1986 (#86001290)	592 E. Howard Street 47°25′38″N 92°56′10″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		February 17, 1988 (#88000067)	Address restricted	Voyageurs National Park	Campsite used c. 3000 BCE–1900 CE.
7	Archeological Site 21SL35		December 29, 1987 (#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		July 8, 1988 (#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		December 31, 1987 (#87002164)	Address restricted	Voyageurs National Park	Habitation site occupied c. 300–1900 CE.
10	Archeological Site No. 21SL73		January 16, 1989 (#88003130)	Address restricted	Voyageurs National Park	Seasonal campsite used 100 BCE–1500 CE.
11	B'nai Abraham Synagogue		August 18, 1980 (#80004356)	328 S. 5th Street 47°31′07″N 92°32′11″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		August 27, 1980 (#80004347)	705 Pierce Street 47°27′47″N 92°32′04″W	Eveleth	1905 house noted as Eveleth's leading example of Queen Anne architecture.
13	W.T. Bailey House		December 4, 1980 (#80004357)	816 S. 5th Avenue 47°30′59″N 92°32′17″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		June 26, 1998 (#98000720)	MN 23 over Mission Creek 46°39′38″N 92°16′32″W	Duluth	Well-crafted 1937 arch bridge with a modular metal substructure, masonry veneer, and Gothic Revival detailing.
15	Bridge No. L-6007		November 6, 1989 (#89001826)	Skyline Parkway over Stewart Creek 46°42′13″N 92°13′41″W	Duluth	Circa-1925 stone arch bridge singled out for its highly picturesque design and setting in a city park.
16	Bridge No. L6113		December 20, 2016 (#16000872)	East 4th Street over Tischer Creek in Congdon Park 46°49′10″N 92°03′48″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		December 20, 2016 (#16000873)	Lewis Street over Tischer Creek 46°49′46″N 92°04′21″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		November 28, 1978 (#78003124)	off U.S. Highway 169 47°28′38″N 92°51′54″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		February 10, 1983 (#83004605)	400 Jones Avenue 47°29′45″N 92°46′34″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		February 10, 1983 (#83000944)	300 Jones Avenue 47°29′44″N 92°46′40″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		February 12, 1999 (#99000189)	Hoist Bay, Burntside Lake 47°53′45″N 92°01′33″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		June 23, 1988 (#88000896)	2755 Burntside Lodge Road 47°55′28″N 91°57′08″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		December 4, 1980 (#80004349)	2530 3rd Avenue W. 47°25′14″N 92°56′39″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		November 19, 1980 (#80004341)	1210–1232 E. 1st Street 46°47′58″N 92°05′00″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		August 4, 2016 (#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	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)		August 27, 1980 (#80004362)	309 S. 3rd Avenue 47°31′15″N 92°32′09″W	Virginia	1924 church that anchored Virginia's Polish American community. Demolished in 2018.
27	Church of St. Joseph (Catholic)		September 6, 2002 (#02000940)	7897 Elmer Road 47°05′01″N 92°46′37″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)		August 27, 1980 (#80004345)	307 Adams Avenue 47°27′45″N 92°32′18″W	Eveleth	1909 church that anchored a Slovene American congregation, one of Eveleth's major ethnic groups.
29	Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-52		March 2, 1989 (#89000158)	off U.S. Highway 53 48°06′05″N 92°50′39″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		August 18, 1980 (#80004358)	817 S. 5th Avenue 47°30′58″N 92°32′20″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		August 15, 1991 (#91001057)	3300 London Road 46°48′55″N 92°03′06″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		July 17, 1980 (#80004350)	102 E. Howard Street 47°25′38″N 92°56′30″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		September 5, 1985 (#85001999)	394 Lake Avenue S. 46°46′55″N 92°05′40″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		June 14, 2013 (#13000380)	404 Pine Street 47°48′16″N 92°16′45″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		June 1, 2011 (#11000324)	1301–1305 London Road 46°47′56″N 92°04′50″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		November 9, 1972 (#72001488)	215 N. 1st Avenue E. 46°47′21″N 92°06′01″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		November 6, 1986 (#86003097)	5th Avenue West and 1st Street 46°47′00″N 92°06′23″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		May 31, 2006 (#06000455)	Superior and 1st Streets between 4th Avenue West and 4th Avenue East 46°47′14″N 92°05′56″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		June 7, 2016 (#16000340)	East end of Duluth Ship Canal North Pier 46°46′51″N 92°05′18″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		June 7, 2016 (#16000341)	East end of Duluth Ship Canal South Breakwater 46°46′48″N 92°05′16″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		May 11, 2015 (#15000215)	4 W. 2nd St. 46°47′17″N 92°06′01″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)		April 16, 1975 (#75002088)	100 Lake Place 46°47′11″N 92°05′42″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		May 5, 1978 (#78003125)	101 W. 2nd Street 46°47′14″N 92°06′08″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		August 4, 1983 (#83000945)	South Breakwater 46°46′43″N 92°05′31″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		November 8, 1985 (#85002757)	E. 5th Street 46°48′45″N 92°04′35″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		December 9, 1971 (#71001028)	5th Avenue W. and Michigan Street 46°46′53″N 92°06′15″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		August 18, 1980 (#80004364)	600 Chestnut Street 47°31′23″N 92°32′28″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		April 1, 1993 (#93000255)	101–510 E. Howard Street 47°25′39″N 92°56′21″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		May 23, 2016 (#16000280)	30 S. 1st Ave. East 47°54′06″N 91°51′55″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		July 21, 2015 (#15000440)	234 E. Sheridan St. 47°54′11″N 91°51′46″W	Ely	1936 Streamline Moderne theater, epitomizing the small-town commissions of leading regional theater designers Liebenberg & Kaplan.
51	Endion School		February 10, 1983 (#83000946)	1801 E. 1st Street 46°48′19″N 92°04′37″W	Duluth	Duluth's most architecturally significant surviving Late Victorian school, built in Richardsonian Romanesque style in 1890.
52	Engine House No. 1		May 12, 1975 (#75002089)	101 E. 3rd Street 46°47′25″N 92°06′01″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		August 18, 1980 (#80004343)	Roosevelt Avenue 47°27′51″N 92°32′00″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		November 25, 1980 (#80004344)	Garfield Street and Adams Avenue 47°27′59″N 92°32′20″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		August 26, 1980 (#80004360)	105 S. 1st Street 47°31′21″N 92°31′54″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		July 17, 2012 (#12000415)	2 N. Broadway 47°29′15″N 92°28′00″W	Gilbert	1920 bank noted for its prominent Neoclassical architecture and commercial impact, particularly on the local agricultural sector.
57	Fitger Brewing Company		February 9, 1984 (#84001690)	600 E. Superior Street 46°47′33″N 92°05′26″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		March 2, 1989 (#89000139)	State Highway 1 47°51′45″N 92°48′36″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		December 2, 1996 (#96001351)	Wendt Island, Rainy Lake 48°32′59″N 92°52′11″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		April 9, 1990 (#90000500)	7938 Pylka Road 47°41′24″N 92°12′10″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		December 15, 1989 (#89002127)	740 E. Superior Street 46°47′39″N 92°05′18″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		July 23, 1992 (#92000842)	off County Road 138 in Embarrass, White, and Pike Townships 47°36′49″N 92°18′06″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		February 12, 1981 (#81000683)	401 E. 21st Street 47°25′36″N 92°56′14″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		August 9, 1991 (#91001022)	1300 E. 23rd Street 47°25′30″N 92°54′56″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		August 11, 1980 (#80004351)	800 E. 21st Street 47°25′32″N 92°55′57″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		April 9, 1990 (#90000768)	6206 Honkola Road 47°39′21″N 92°19′56″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		November 25, 1980 (#80004346)	222 Adams Avenue 47°27′44″N 92°32′16″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		November 13, 1966 (#66000904)	3rd Avenue E. 47°27′10″N 92°57′40″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		June 15, 2011 (#11000360)	Ingersoll's Island, Crane Lake 48°21′16″N 92°28′23″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		November 20, 1992 (#92001611)	101 N. 56th Avenue W. 46°44′07″N 92°10′07″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		March 10, 1982 (#82004710)	201 N. 3rd Avenue 47°31′29″N 92°32′05″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		June 18, 1993 (#93000479)	Southwestern shore of Kabetogama Lake in Voyageurs National Park 48°26′43″N 93°01′44″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		July 17, 1978 (#78000376)	Kettle Channel in Voyageurs National Park 48°30′05″N 92°38′25″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		January 11, 1976 (#76000210)	Kettle Channel in Voyageurs National Park 48°30′11″N 92°38′24″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		April 16, 1975 (#75002090)	831 E. Superior Street 46°47′43″N 92°05′16″W	Duluth	1912 clubhouse noted for its fine Georgian/Gothic Revival design by Bertram Goodhue and its superlative craftsmanship.
76	LaSalle Apartments		November 27, 2017 (#100001845)	201 N 5th Ave. 47°31′27″N 92°32′18″W	Virginia	1924 apartment building exemplifying the emergence of multi-unit housing for middle-class urbanites in the early 20th century.
77	LeMoine Building		March 2, 1989 (#89000140)	off County Road 74 47°58′06″N 92°48′37″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		August 18, 1980 (#80004359)	202 N. 5th Avenue 47°31′27″N 92°32′21″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		September 6, 2002 (#02000934)	London Road over the Lester River 46°50′12″N 92°00′22″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		June 15, 2011 (#11000361)	Kabetogama Narrows near Ash River Maintenance Dock 48°26′05″N 92°51′22″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		January 14, 2013 (#12001175)	2229 W. 2nd Street 46°46′00″N 92°07′44″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		November 28, 1978 (#78003130)	225 1st Street N. 47°31′28″N 92°32′04″W	Virginia	Highly intact 1922 school exemplifying the Jacobean Revival architecture favored for educational buildings in the early 20th century.
83	Listening Point		December 26, 2007 (#07001316)	3128 Van Vac Road 47°54′11″N 92°01′01″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		July 20, 1977 (#77001526)	6500 County Road 666 47°33′27″N 92°07′00″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		April 9, 1990 (#90000769)	7776 Hanka Nevala Road 47°40′42″N 92°12′16″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)		August 28, 2012 (#12000560)	2.25 miles south of Lester River in Lake Superior 46°48′12″N 92°00′40″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		May 28, 2019 (#100003961)	3827 Mesaba Park Rd. 47°23′41″N 92°47′47″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		December 27, 1974 (#74002206)	Minnesota Point 46°42′36″N 92°01′33″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		December 2, 1980 (#80004352)	2145 4th Avenue 47°25′31″N 92°56′18″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		June 3, 1976 (#76002175)	716 E. Superior Street 46°47′36″N 92°05′22″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		June 15, 2011 (#11000362)	Hoist Bay, Namakan Lake 48°25′05″N 92°44′55″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		November 24, 1968 (#68000052)	north of Mountain Iron 47°32′20″N 92°37′25″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		December 12, 1976 (#76002176)	405 Mesaba Avenue 46°47′08″N 92°06′33″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		April 9, 1990 (#90000770)	4839 Salo Road 47°39′46″N 92°11′45″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		July 31, 1978 (#78003129)	based at the Duluth Depot 46°46′53″N 92°06′15″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		June 5, 2017 (#100001026)	NW. quadrant of Olcott Park, 9th St. N. & 9th Ave. N. 47°31′47″N 92°33′05″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		June 3, 2020 (#100005249)	106 E. Wilson St. 47°53′44″N 91°51′54″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		September 6, 2002 (#02000937)	U.S. Highway 53 at First Avenue 48°03′33″N 92°49′50″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		November 28, 1978 (#78003127)	401 N. Pioneer Road 47°54′43″N 91°51′38″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		June 12, 2003 (#03000521)	4745 Salo Road 47°39′46″N 92°11′11″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		October 14, 2009 (#09000828)	7 miles south of Knife River 46°50′50″N 91°43′44″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		June 26, 1986 (#86001382)	206 and 211 W. Fourth Street, 315 N. 2nd Avenue W. 46°47′15″N 92°06′19″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		March 4, 1985 (#85000456)	100 Pine Lane 47°28′25″N 92°20′48″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		June 18, 1992 (#92000798)	300 S. 5th Avenue 47°31′15″N 92°32′16″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		April 16, 1991 (#91000439)	530 N. 5th Avenue E. 46°47′45″N 92°05′53″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		August 27, 1980 (#80004340)	530 Central Avenue 47°29′01″N 92°52′44″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		April 9, 1990 (#90000771)	8162 Comet Road 47°42′25″N 92°08′16″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		November 25, 1980 (#80004353)	704 E. Howard Street 47°25′39″N 92°56′01″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		November 13, 1966 (#66000905)	Soudan Underground Mine State Park 47°49′10″N 92°14′32″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		June 15, 2011 (#11000363)	Stevens Island, Namakan Lake 48°26′30″N 92°44′50″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		May 24, 2007 (#07000460)	at the northern end of Stuntz Bay Road 47°49′34″N 92°14′11″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		July 28, 1980 (#80004342)	204 E. Camp Street 47°54′14″N 91°51′49″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		April 9, 1990 (#90000773)	8261 Wilen Road 47°42′38″N 92°09′43″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		July 23, 1992 (#92000844)	7/8 of a mile outside the Duluth Harbor entrance. 46°47′00″N 92°04′10″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		July 17, 1980 (#80004355)	Main Street 47°48′18″N 92°16′30″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		April 4, 1975 (#75002091)	1509–1511 E. Superior Street 46°48′06″N 92°04′46″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		October 23, 1995 (#95001163)	901 Minnesota Avenue 46°46′32″N 92°05′34″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		November 28, 1978 (#78003126)	6008 London Road 46°50′10″N 92°00′26″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		April 14, 1994 (#94000342)	Lake Superior 46°42′46″N 92°01′43″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		August 24, 1979 (#79003199)	125 3rd Street N. 47°31′34″N 92°31′58″W	Virginia	Long-serving meeting hall used by various Finnish American organizations, built around 1906 by a temperance society.
121	Virginia Brewery		August 27, 1980 (#80004363)	305 S. 7th Avenue 47°31′16″N 92°32′34″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		May 26, 2004 (#04000539)	327 1st Street S. 47°31′21″N 92°32′11″W	Virginia	1923 city hall, the long-serving seat of Virginia's municipal government.
123	Virginia Commercial Historic District		January 31, 1997 (#97000020)	Chestnut Street between 1st and 6th Avenues 47°31′23″N 92°32′09″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		August 18, 1980 (#80004361)	402 and 404 S. 5th Avenue 47°31′13″N 92°32′18″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		August 26, 1980 (#80004365)	731 3rd Street S. 47°31′14″N 92°32′38″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		February 4, 1982 (#82004711)	305 1st Street S. 47°31′21″N 92°32′08″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		July 31, 1986 (#86002123)	County Road 29 47°02′53″N 92°44′46″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)		July 13, 1989 (#89000858)	Minnesota Slip in Duluth Harbor 46°46′58″N 92°05′50″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		July 25, 1991 (#91000896)	13 W. Superior Street 46°47′12″N 92°05′56″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		June 1, 2011 (#11000325)	202 W. 2nd Street 46°47′10″N 92°06′10″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		January 16, 1997 (#80004354)	June 11, 2003	intersection of 4th Avenue N. and First Street W.	Aurora	1912 and 1914 public schools. Demolished in 2001.
2	Otto Johnson House		November 25, 1980 (#80004354)	October 2, 1998	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.