National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota: A Guide

by Mary Ann Nord (Compiler), Larry Millett (Foreword by)

Overview

Minnesotans can boast of a treasure trove of historic buildings, landmarks, and sites in our state. This comprehensive guide, useful for travel or armchair research, lists the more than 1,500 historic properties in our state on the famed National Register of Historic Places, the official list of historic properties in the United States that have been deemed worthy of preservation.

Produced by Minnesota's State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), this comprehensive, illustrated guide includes the districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects significant to the state's history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, and culture. A county-by-county inventory presents descriptive information for each property including name, location, date, architectural style and designer, original owner, and entertaining historical sidelights.

From churches to water towers, lighthouses to shipwrecks, a gas station to a fur-trade depot, this book delivers the wealth and variety of Minnesota's history into your hands.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873514484
Publisher:	Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication date:	05/05/2003
Series:	Minnesota
Pages:	335
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mary Ann Nord is a Minneapolis-based writer and editor specializing in history, historic preservation, and the arts.

Larry Millett has written extensively about Twin Cities architecture, notably in AIA Guide to the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Then and Now, and Lost Twin Cities. His fascination for speed graphic photography is displayed in Murder Has a Public Face and Strange Days, Dangerous Nights.