This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Meeker County, Minnesota.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Meeker 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 10 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another property was once listed but has been removed.
Farmhouse built 1888–89 by prosperous local brickmaker Henry Ames (1846–1928), whose on-site brickyard was Meeker County's leading industry for almost two decades.[4]
One of Minnesota's earliest steel truss bridges, built in 1899 by the Hewett Bridge Company, an important Minneapolis-based manufacturer at the turn of the 20th century.[5]
Octagonal summer cottage built for a lake resort in 1889, Minnesota's only surviving example of the octagon house fad applied to a rental property and the best representative of the short-lived resort's facilities.[6]
Fortress-like hall built in 1885 by Civil War Union Veterans to house a private reading library and museum; one of the finest buildings associated with influential late 19th-century fraternal society Grand Army of the Republic.[8] Now part of the Meeker County Historical Society Museum.[9]
Unusually intact business district of a small Midwestern agricultural trade center of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with 36 contributing properties mostly built between 1882 and 1940.[10]
Best preserved example of 12 sod forts built and briefly manned by the U.S. Army across southwest Minnesota in the year after the Dakota War of 1862.[13]
Processing facility that became the nation's first and most important domestic supplier of ergot—source of many vital drugs, particularly in wartime—beginning in 1937 just as the impending World War II was cutting off foreign purveyors.[15] Now a museum.[16]
^ 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.
^Location derived from "Pipe Lake Fort". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Retrieved 2017-06-10. NRIS lists site as "address restricted".
^Dudzik, Mark J.; Bruce Koenen (2003-02-10). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Pipe Lake Fort" (Document). National Park Service.
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