This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Itasca County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Itasca 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 20 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. A supplementary list includes one additional site that was formerly listed on the National Register.
Well-preserved example of a municipal hall built with federal assistance during the Great Depression, constructed 1934–5. Further noted as one of Minnesota's first Public Works Administration projects and for its eclectic period revival architecture.[5]
1908 brick office building, representative of mining company towns throughout the Mesabi Range.[6] Demolished in the summer of 2013 by the City of Coleraine and the Greenway School District.
Landmark Richardsonian Romanesque school in use for 77 years, one of the first high schools in northern Minnesota outside of Duluth upon its completion in 1895, and one of the only intact 19th-century buildings remaining in Grand Rapids.[7]
Finely crafted log church built in 1908 by U.S. Steel as a religious and social center for its managerial class, reflecting the strict social hierarchy maintained by the mining companies and the lavish support for those in the upper ranks.[8]
Carnegie library built in Neoclassical style in 1912 to educate and acculturate immigrant mine workers and their families, emblematic of the corporate paternalism of the region's iron mining companies.[9]
Renaissance Revival municipal hall built in 1910 to house Coleraine's government offices, fire department, jail, and auditorium as the community evolved from a mining company town to an incorporated village.[10]
Early-20th-century farm of a prosperous Finnish immigrant, representing Itasca County's few substantial agricultural operations in a post-logging region more characterized by subsistence farms.[12]
Maple syruping complex with four log buildings constructed 1904–5 and a lodge built in 1909, a unique example of the hobby farms established by the era's wealthy Minnesotans.[13]
Open-pit iron mine complex established in 1912, one of the most productive on the Mesabi Range, whose surviving buildings illustrate the early mining process.[14] Now a state park.[15]
Well-preserved U.S. Forest Service administrative complex with five log structures built 1934–35, noted for its association with the expansion and development of Chippewa National Forest during the New Deal and for its fine National Park Service rustic architecture.[16]
Only boarding house operated by the Oliver Iron Mining Company remaining in the western Mesabi Range, built circa 1909 to address the constant housing shortages caused by the influx of mine workers.[19]
Four structures built 1934–35, the only all-log support facilities remaining in a Minnesota state park. Also significant as examples of New Deal federal work relief, state park development, and National Park Service rustic architecture.[20]
Six park facilities built 1934–35 (including one with original furniture and paintings) significant as examples of New Deal federal work relief, state park development, and National Park Service rustic log architecture.[21]
Site almost continuously inhabited for more than 10,000 years. Features six burial mounds and the locations of an Ojibwe village and a British fur trading post.[24]
Dam built 1899–1900, associated with the first and largest of the reservoirs created in the region as a federal project to control the flow of the Upper Mississippi River. Extends into Cass County.[25]
1904 employee residence, the best surviving reminder of the region's largest lumber company, which played a major role in the development of Deer River and western Itasca County.[26] Demolished circa 2011.
^ abNumbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
^The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
