This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mille Lacs 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 12 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including one National Historic Landmark. Another property was once listed but has been removed.
Precontact and early contact-era Mdewakanton habitation site and burial mounds; the type site for a particular cultural complex and a contributing property to the Kathio Site.[7]
Concentration of at least 17 archaeological sites in the contact-era homeland of the Dakota people—later taken over by the Ojibwe—with high potential to illuminate the development of the area's pre- and post-contact indigenous cultures. Now Mille Lacs Kathio State Park.[12]
Seat of county government since 1923 and a well-preserved embodiment of a post-World War I phase in courthouse architecture that favored Renaissance/Classical Revival motifs and fireproof construction to protect public records.[14]
Fieldstone municipal hall built 1935–36, a well-preserved example of typical Works Progress Administration unemployment relief projects using readily available but labor-intensive local materials.[15]
Site of a precontact village in use 400–1600 CE, representing a distinctive cultural phase of native occupation. Also a contributing property to the Kathio Site.[16][17]
Site of a late precontact-era village circa 800–1100 CE as well as a 19th-century Ojibwe camp, the former being significant as a distinctive cultural phase of native occupation. Also a contributing property to the Kathio Site.[18]
^ 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.
^ abcdLocation derived from Archaeology Lab, Department of Anthropology (1974). Prehistoric Archaeological Sites in Minnesota State Parks. University of Minnesota. NRIS lists site as "address restricted".
^Johnson, Elden (1970-03-11). National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Cooper Site (21-ML-9). National Park Service.
^"About Us". Mille Lacs County Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
^Weiss, Francine (1976-05-05). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: KATHIO SITE (Archeological District). National Park Service.
