National Register of Historic Places listings in Olmsted County, Minnesota

Location of Olmsted County in Minnesota

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Olmsted County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Olmsted 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 25 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including one National Historic Landmark. A supplementary list includes five additional sites that were formerly on the National Register. Many of the county's listings are associated with the Mayo Clinic, an influential hospital and medical research facility founded in 1889.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 16, 2016.^[1]

Current listings

[2]	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed[3]	Location	City or town	Description
1	Avalon Hotel		March 19, 1982 (#82002992)	301 North Broadway 44°01′35″N 92°27′48″W / 44.026453°N 92.463291°W	Rochester	1919 hotel, originally a kosher venue for Jewish travelers, that in 1944 became one of Rochester's few African American-owned and -oriented businesses prior to desegregation. Now the Avalon Music store.[4]
2	Dr. Donald C. Balfour House		July 21, 2004 (#04000723)	427 6th Avenue, S.W. 44°01′06″N 92°28′19″W / 44.018416°N 92.471858°W	Rochester	1910 house of Mayo Clinic co-founder Dr. Donald Balfour.[5]
3	Benike Family Barn		October 7, 2011 (#09000407)	5209 County Road 21 N.E., Farmington Township 44°08′15″N 92°22′30″W / 44.137379°N 92.374927°W	Elgin vicinity
4	John G. Bush House		July 2, 1980 (#80004531)	223 East Center Street 43°58′29″N 92°08′11″W / 43.974676°N 92.136428°W	Dover	c. 1877 brick Italianate house of a successful merchant.[6]
5	Chateau Dodge Theatre		July 17, 1980 (#80002098)	15 1st Street, S.W. 44°01′22″N 92°27′50″W / 44.022803°N 92.463962°W	Rochester	1927 Exotic Revival atmospheric theatre.[6]
6	Coan House		July 2, 1980 (#80004532)	118 West 5th Street 43°59′04″N 92°14′00″W / 43.984368°N 92.23343°W	Eyota	c. 1888 brick Eastlake Movement house.[6]
7	Eyota Farmers Cooperative Creamery Association		July 2, 1980 (#80004533)	222 Washington Avenue, South 43°59′10″N 92°13′36″W / 43.986075°N 92.226798°W	Eyota	1924 brick creamery designed by Harold Crawford for a dairy cooperative.[6]
8	Frank's Ford Bridge		July 8, 1980 (#80004534)	County Road 121 over the South Branch of the Zumbro River 44°07′47″N 92°27′45″W / 44.129628°N 92.462584°W	Oronoco	1895 through truss bridge built by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company.[6]
9	Christoph Krause Farmstead		October 10, 1980 (#80002097)	County Highway 30 43°57′31″N 92°08′17″W / 43.958611°N 92.138056°W	Dover	1870s farmstead with a brick Italianate farmhouse.[6]
10	Maass and McAndrew Company Building		May 24, 2016 (#16000278)	12-14 4th St., S.W. 44°01′09″N 92°27′50″W / 44.019298°N 92.463763°W	Rochester	Home of a mechanical contracting firm in operation 1909–1929, significant for designing and constructing much of the specialized equipment and facilities that helped boost the Mayo Clinic to national prominence.[7]
11	Mayo Clinic Building		August 4, 1969 (#69000075)	110 and 115 2nd Avenue, S.W. 44°01′19″N 92°27′56″W / 44.02189°N 92.465548°W	Rochester	Also known as the Plummer Building, the 1928 headquarters of the influential Mayo Clinic.[8]
12	Dr. William J. Mayo House		March 26, 1975 (#75001001)	701 4th Street, S.W. 44°01′11″N 92°28′25″W / 44.019735°N 92.473748°W	Rochester	1916 stone Tudor Revival mansion of Mayo Clinic co-founder Dr. William James Mayo. Later known as the Mayo Foundation House.[6][9]
13	Mayowood Historic District		September 22, 1970 (#70000306)	3720 Mayowood Road, S.W. 43°59′40″N 92°31′09″W / 43.994536°N 92.519163°W	Rochester	Estate of Mayo Clinic co-founder Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, including his 1911 mansion plus a lodge, farm, and greenhouse complex built 1908–1920s.[10]
14	Oronoco School		July 2, 1980 (#80004536)	County Highway 18 44°09′43″N 92°32′02″W / 44.161972°N 92.533963°W	Oronoco	1875 brick Italianate school.[6]
15	Pill Hill Residential Historic District		November 29, 1990 (#85003768)	Roughly bounded by 3rd and 9th Streets and 7th and 10th Avenues, S.W. 44°01′02″N 92°28′32″W / 44.0171°N 92.475545°W	Rochester	Early-20th-century residential neighborhood where many Mayo Clinic doctors lived.[6]
16	Pleasant Grove Masonic Lodge		October 10, 1980 (#80002102)	Off County Highway 1 43°52′12″N 92°23′04″W / 43.870078°N 92.384482°W	Stewartville	Minnesota's oldest Masonic Lodge in continuous use, built in 1868.[11]
17	Henry S. Plummer House		May 21, 1975 (#75001002)	1091 Plummer Lane 44°00′38″N 92°28′47″W / 44.010657°N 92.479789°W	Rochester	1924 Tudor Revival mansion of Mayo Clinic co-founder Dr. Henry Stanley Plummer.[10] Now a city-owned art center and event venue.[12]
18	Rochester Armory		December 2, 1980 (#80004268)	121 North Broadway 44°01′31″N 92°27′49″W / 44.025139°N 92.463491°W	Rochester	1915 brick Romanesque Revival armory of the Minnesota National Guard.[6]
19	Rochester Public Library		July 2, 1980 (#80004537)	226 2nd Street, S.W. 44°01′17″N 92°28′01″W / 44.02134°N 92.466991°W	Rochester	1937 Jacobean Revival library designed by Harold Crawford and built of Kasota limestone by the Public Works Administration.[6] Now the Mayo Medical School's Mitchell Student Center.[13]
20	St. Mary's Hospital Dairy Farmstead		July 2, 1980 (#80004538)	East of Rochester on County Highway 104 44°01′29″N 92°33′22″W / 44.024704°N 92.556085°W	Rochester	1923 dairy farm built to supply St. Mary's Hospital with pasteurized milk.[6]
21	George Stoppel Farmstead		May 12, 1975 (#75001000)	County Highways 25 and 122 44°00′29″N 92°30′36″W / 44.008045°N 92.509962°W	Rochester	1861 limestone house, barn, and two-story smokehouse.[10]
22	Toogood Barns		June 26, 1975 (#75001003)	Mayowood Road 44°00′01″N 92°28′21″W / 44.000194°N 92.472553°W	Rochester	c. 1870 stone barns of Yankee farmer William F. Toogood.[6]
23	Viola Cooperative Creamery		November 12, 1999 (#99001310)	10500 Viola Road, N.E. 44°03′52″N 92°16′11″W / 44.064534°N 92.269599°W	Viola	1924 brick creamery designed by Harold Crawford for a dairy cooperative.[6]
24	Milo White House		March 19, 1982 (#82002991)	122 Burr Oak Street 43°51′02″N 92°11′18″W / 43.850521°N 92.18836°W	Chatfield	1883 brick Queen Anne house of U.S. Representative Milo White.[6]
25	Timothy A. Whiting House		December 4, 1980 (#80004269)	225 1st Avenue, N.W. 44°01′34″N 92°27′54″W / 44.026035°N 92.464898°W	Rochester	1875 frame Italianate house of a notable grain merchant.[6] Now the Heritage House museum.[14]

Former listings

[2]	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Date removed	Location	City or town	Summary
1	Chicago Great Western Railroad Company Depot		December 4, 1980 (#80004267)	November 13, 1987	88 S. Park Ave. and 130 S. Park Ave. (original address) Current coordinates are 44°01′08″N 92°27′41″W / 44.018984°N 92.461361°W	Rochester	1900 Chicago Great Western Railway depot.[15] Moved in 1987.[6][16]
2	Cutting Barn	Upload image	October 22, 1980 (#80002099)	May 4, 1984	3210 19th St. N.W.	Rochester	1868 limestone barn of a prosperous early farm. Destroyed by an accidental fire on January 24, 1982.[17]
3	Hotel Zumbro	Upload image	October 10, 1980 (#80002100)	March 28, 1988	101 1st Ave., S.W.	Rochester	1912 hotel catering to Mayo Clinic patients and their families. Demolished by owners in 1987 to make way for a modern replacement.[17]
4	Charles H. Mayo House	Upload image	July 2, 1980 (#80004535)	September 25, 1987	419 4th St., SW	Rochester	1903 house of Dr. Charles Horace Mayo. Demolished as a condition of land sale back to the Mayo Clinic in 1987.[17]
5	Pierce House		July 21, 1980 (#80002101)	November 7, 2016	426 Second Avenue, S.W. 44°01′06″N 92°27′56″W / 44.018363°N 92.465634°W	Rochester	1877 brick Italianate hotel which became a nursing school and later apartments.[6] Demolished June 5, 2007.[18]

See also

• List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Minnesota

References

1. "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on December 16, 2016.
2. Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
3. 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.
4. Bluhm, Matthew; Maria Bartholdi (Jan–Feb 2012). "The Avalon Hotel - Paving the way for racial equality in Rochester". Rochester Women Magazine. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
5. "Balfour, Dr. Donald C., House". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
6. Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3.
7. Bisel, Jane; Steve Williams (2016-01-07). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Maas and McAndrew Company Building" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-16. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthor= (help)
8. "Mayo Clinic Building". National Historic Landmarks Program. National Park Service. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
9. "Houses: William J. Mayo House (Mayo Foundation House)". A Minnesota Sampler. Minnesota Historical Society. 2007. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
10. Hanson, Krista Finstad (2007). Minnesota Open House: A Guide to Historic House Museums. St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0-87351-577-1.
11. "1850s/1860s: Pleasant Grove Masonic Lodge". Getaways through the Years. Minnesota Historical Society. 2007. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
12. "Plummer House of the Arts". City of Rochester, Minnesota. Retrieved 2013-03-06.
13. "Campus Life". Mayo Medical School. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
14. "Heritage House". Rochester, MN Convention & Visitors Bureau. Retrieved 2013-03-07.
15. "Chicago Great Western Depot (removed)". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
16. "About Us". Dos Amigos Mexican Restaurant. Retrieved 2013-09-05.
17. El-Hai, Jack (2000). Lost Minnesota: Stories of Vanished Places. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816635153.
18. Hansel, Jeff (2007-07-07). "130-year-old Maxwell House is no more". Post-Bulletin. Rochester, Minnesota.

External links

• Minnesota National Register Properties Database—Minnesota Historical Society