National Register of Historic Places listings in Swift County, Minnesota
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Swift County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Swift 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 nine properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 8, 2024.[1]
Current listings
[edit]| [2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed[3] | Location | City or town | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Appleton City Hall |  |
June 17, 1977 (#77000770) |
23 South Miles Street 45°11′59″N 96°01′09″W / 45.199762°N 96.019105°W | Appleton | One of rural western Minnesota's few monumental 19th-century buildings, constructed in 1895; noted for its Richardsonian Romanesque architecture and long civic use.[4] |
| 2 | Christ Church-Episcopal |  |
August 15, 1985 (#85001761) |
310 13th Street North 45°18′57″N 95°35′57″W / 45.315787°N 95.599184°W | Benson | Benson's oldest church, built in early Gothic Revival style in 1879, symbolizing the missionary efforts of the Episcopal Church in rural Minnesota and the city's English and New Englander settlers.[5] |
| 3 | Church of St. Bridget-Catholic |  |
August 15, 1985 (#85001768) |
501 3rd Street South 45°15′33″N 95°28′09″W / 45.259195°N 95.469059°W | De Graff | Large 1901 church anchoring the first parish established during Archbishop John Ireland's major drive to resettle Catholics in western Minnesota. Also noted as a rare outstate church designed by Saint Paul architect Edward J. Donahue.[6] |
| 4 | Church of St. Francis Xavier-Catholic |  |
August 15, 1985 (#85001753) |
508 13th Street North 45°19′06″N 95°35′52″W / 45.318299°N 95.597639°W | Benson | One of west-central Minnesota's most architecturally sophisticated churches, designed in Renaissance Revival style by Emmanuel Louis Masqueray and built in 1917 for a parish of Swift County's substantial Catholic population.[7] |
| 5 | Gethsemane Episcopal Church |  |
July 20, 2011 (#11000469) |
40 North Hering Street 45°12′03″N 96°01′02″W / 45.200747°N 96.017214°W | Appleton | 1879 church representing the westernmost expansion of the Episcopal Church in southern Minnesota under Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple.[8] |
| 6 | Monson Lake State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources |  |
October 25, 1989 (#89001666) |
Off County Road 95 southeast of Sunburg 45°19′16″N 95°16′31″W / 45.32106°N 95.275261°W | Sunburg vicinity | Early and largely unchanged memorial park with two buildings constructed 1937–38, significant as examples of New Deal federal work relief, early Minnesota state park development, and NPS Rustic architecture.[9] |
| 7 | Sabin S. Murdock House |  |
August 15, 1985 (#85001752) |
Clara Avenue 45°13′26″N 95°23′26″W / 45.223958°N 95.390513°W | Murdock | West-central Minnesota's most prominent house of a single individual who established and promoted a rural townsite, the 1878 home of Murdock's founder Sabin S. Murdock (1830–1900).[10] |
| 8 | Swift County Courthouse |  |
September 19, 1977 (#77000771) |
301 14th Street North 45°19′01″N 95°36′04″W / 45.317077°N 95.601131°W | Benson | 1898 courthouse, the longstanding seat of Swift County government and an exemplary late-19th-century Richardsonian Romanesque public building.[11] |
| 9 | Christian F. Uytendale Farmstead |  |
September 5, 1985 (#85001989) |
Off County Highway 25 45°23′10″N 95°34′19″W / 45.38622°N 95.571922°W | Benson vicinity | One of Swift County's first and most prominent farmsteads, established in 1868 and owned 1879–1902 by a wealthy Danish immigrant, who added an 1887 farmhouse with regionally unique ethnic design features.[12] |
See also
[edit]- List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Minnesota
References
[edit]- ^ National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved November 8, 2024.
- ^ Numbers 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.
- ^ Spaeth, Lynn VanBrocklin; Fred Shank (1976-10-29). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Appleton City Hall". National Park Service. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
- ^ Granger, Susan (February 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Christ Church". National Park Service. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
- ^ Granger, Susan (November 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Church of St. Bridget". National Park Service. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
- ^ Granger, Susan (March 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Church of St. Francis Xavier". National Park Service. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
- ^ Granger, Susan; Scott Kelly (March 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Gethsemane Episcopal Church" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2013-07-02.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Anderson, Rolf T. (1988-08-24). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Monson Lake State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources". National Park Service. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
- ^ Granger, Susan (March 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Sabin S. Murdock House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2018-02-18.
- ^ Spaeth, Lynn VanBrocklin (1979-10-29). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Swift County Courthouse". National Park Service. Retrieved 2018-02-18.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Granger, Susan (December 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Christian F. Uytendale Farmstead". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
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