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Why should we save the historic buildings in our cities and towns? What makes a building a historic landmark? What can we uncover of Minnesota's history by studying its historic structures? What do buildings and sites tell us about time and place, experience and memory, people and their needs? Historian Denis P. Gardner beckons us to learn about the profound value of historic buildings and places in this engaging collection of essays. His stories, accompanied by gorgeous color photographs, tell the very human side of our state?s history by showcasing some of the state's gathering places, houses, commercial hubs, industrial and agricultural properties, and Native American sites that hold our collective history. Read about Guri Endreson, a Norwegian immigrant widow who defiantly returned to the family?s small log cabin near Willmar after her husband and son were killed in the U.S.-Dakota War--and see the evocative photograph of the log structure as it stands today. Or hear of the second-most famous aviator in Minnesota history, Bernard H. Pietenpol, who built airplanes in his garage/workshop in the heart of Cherry Grove, and see one of his prototype airplanes preserved for display. Learn of the wood-framed Classical Hennepin County house of one of Minnesota's most prominent African Americans, Lena Olive Smith, and hear how Smith, the first African American women licensed to practice law in Minnesota, was a tireless crusader for equal rights. As Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, writes in the foreword to Minnesota Treasures: These places help us understand who we are . . . they constitute a unique family portrait of us. And what a colorful, complex, endlessly fascinating portrait it is. In their remarkable variety, the places in Minnesota Treasures may at first glance appear to be a random collection of unrelated artifacts--but in fact they share one very important trait in common: They are all worth saving. Just as we learn about our fathers and mothers--who they were, what they believed, how they lived--from the buildings they left for us, our children will learn about us in the same way.
| Foreword | xv | |
| Introduction | xxi | |
| 1 | Native Americans | 3 |
| Jeffers Petroglyphs Site | 5 | |
| Little Rapids (Inyan Ceyaka Otonwe) | 9 | |
| Birch Coulee School | 13 | |
| Battle Point (Sugar Point) | 16 | |
| 2 | Before the Railroad | 21 |
| Guri and Lars Endreson House | 23 | |
| St. Cloud & Red River Valley Stage Road: Kandota Section | 26 | |
| Jefferson Grain Warehouse | 28 | |
| Good Templars Hall | 31 | |
| Lanesboro Stone Dam | 34 | |
| Orville P. & Sarah Chubb House | 37 | |
| Hastings Foundry | 40 | |
| 3 | Railroads & Agriculture | 43 |
| Northern Pacific Railway Shops | 47 | |
| Viola Cooperative Creamery | 50 | |
| Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault St. Marie Depot (Soo Line Depot) | 54 | |
| John Bosch Farmstead | 57 | |
| Steamboat Bridge | 61 | |
| Nansen Agricultural District | 64 | |
| Soo Line High Bridge | 67 | |
| 4 | Industry & Technology | 71 |
| Pine Tree Lumber Company Office Building | 74 | |
| Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator | 77 | |
| Seventh Street Improvement Arches | 81 | |
| Hill Annex Mine | 84 | |
| Schech's Mill | 87 | |
| Goodsell Observatory | 91 | |
| Universal Laboratories Building | 95 | |
| Bernard H. Pietenpol Workshop & Garage | 98 | |
| Hibbing Disposal Plant | 101 | |
| 5 | Maritime Minnesota | 105 |
| Aerial Lift Bridge | 107 | |
| Madeira Shipwreck | 111 | |
| Two Harbors Light Station | 113 | |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Duluth Vessel Yard | 116 | |
| Tugboat Edna G. | 120 | |
| Jim Scott Fish House | 123 | |
| Onoko Shipwreck | 126 | |
| 6 | Commercial History | 129 |
| The Big Store (O. G. Anderson & Company Store) | 131 | |
| J. A. Johnson Blacksmith Shop | 136 | |
| First National Bank | 139 | |
| Barnard Mortuary | 141 | |
| Nelson & Albin Cooperative Mercantile Association Store | 144 | |
| Original Main Street | 147 | |
| 7 | Public History | 151 |
| Howard Lake City Hall | 154 | |
| Louisburg School | 157 | |
| Fergus Falls State Hospital Complex | 160 | |
| Pipestone Water Tower | 165 | |
| New Ulm Post Office | 168 | |
| Firemen's Hall | 171 | |
| Rock County Courthouse & Jail | 174 | |
| Norris Camp | 176 | |
| Montevideo Carnegie Library | 180 | |
| Minnesota State Reformatory for Men | 183 | |
| 8 | Yesterday's House | 187 |
| Rensselaer D. Hubbard House | 190 | |
| Hannah C. & Peter E. Thompson House | 193 | |
| Casiville Bullard House | 196 | |
| Paul Watkins House | 199 | |
| Merton S. Goodnow House | 202 | |
| Muret N. Leland House | 206 | |
| Lena O. Smith House | 209 | |
| Hinckley Fire Relief House | 212 | |
| Lorenz & Lugerde Ginthner House | 216 | |
| 9 | Gathering Places | 219 |
| Church of St. Boniface (Church of St. Mary) | 221 | |
| Odeon Theater | 225 | |
| Lodge Boleslav Jablonsky No. 219 | 228 | |
| Grand Army of the Republic Hall | 231 | |
| North East Neighborhood House | 235 | |
| Gran Evangelical Lutheran Church | 240 | |
| Deerwood Auditorium | 242 | |
| Mahnomen County Fairgrounds | 245 | |
| 10 | Tourism & Roadside Architecture | 249 |
| Frontenac | 252 | |
| Lake Bronson State Park | 255 | |
| Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox | 259 | |
| Cascade River Wayside | 262 | |
| Naniboujou Club | 266 | |
| Graystone Hotel | 269 | |
| Jun Fujita Cabin | 273 | |
| White Castle Building No. 8 | 276 | |
| Notes | 280 | |
| Index | 290 | |
| Photo Credits | 296 |
Overview
Why should we save the historic buildings in our cities and towns? What makes a building a historic landmark? What can we uncover of Minnesota's history by studying its historic structures? What do buildings and sites tell us about time and place, experience and memory, people and their needs? Historian Denis P. Gardner beckons us to learn about the profound value of historic buildings and places in this engaging collection of essays. His stories, accompanied by gorgeous color photographs, tell the very human ...