National Register of Historic Places listings in Rice County, Minnesota

Location of Rice County in Minnesota

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rice County, Minnesota.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rice County, Minnesota, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map.

There are 72 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 2 National Historic Landmarks.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted March 2, 2012.

Current listings

	Landmark name	Image	Date listed	Location	City or town	Summary
1	Administration Building-Girls' Dormitory, Minnesota School for the Deaf		01986-11-06November 6, 1986	Minnesota Highway 299 44°18′23″N 93°15′34″W	Faribault	Public residential school serving deaf children in Minnesota.
2	All Saints Church-Episcopal		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	Washington and 5th Streets 44°27′19″N 93°09′29″W	Northfield
3	W. Roby Allen Oral Home School		01990-07-12July 12, 1990	525 5th Street NE 44°17′12″N 93°15′33″W	Faribault
4	Archibald Mill		01976-10-08October 8, 1976	Railway Street 44°25′48″N 93°12′21″W	Dundas	Derelict flour mill built by George and John Sidney Archibald on the east bank of the Cannon River in late 1857
5	Edward T. Archibald House		01976-06-17June 17, 1976	Hamilton and 2nd Streets 44°25′34″N 93°12′15″W	Dundas
6	Ault Store		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	2nd Street 44°25′44″N 93°12′08″W	Dundas	Property submission to the NRHP
7	Laura Baker School		01978-03-29March 29, 1978	211 Oak Street 44°27′26″N 93°08′49″W	Northfield
8	Batchelder's Block		01990-07-12July 12, 1990	120 Central Avenue North 44°17′30″N 93°16′07″W	Faribault
9	Frank A. and Elizabeth Berry House		01990-08-09August 9, 1990	319 3rd Street NW 44°17′36″N 93°16′25″W	Faribault
10	Blind Department Building and Dow Hall, State School for the Blind		01990-07-25July 25, 1990	400 6th Avenue SE 44°17′12″N 93°15′36″W	Faribault	Significant components of a system of state-administered special education for the physically and mentally handicapped segments of the population
11	Bonde Farmhouse		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	County Road 27 and Minnesota Highway 246 44°21′09″N 93°04′46″W	Wheeling Township
12	Bridge No. 8096		01998-06-26June 26, 1998	Minnesota Highway 19 over Spring Creek 44°27′51″N 93°09′13″W	Northfield
13	Cassius Buck House		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	124 1st Avenue SW 44°17′19″N 93°16′12″W	Faribault
14	Thomas Scott Buckham Memorial Library		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	Central Avenue and Division Street 44°17′24″N 93°16′04″W	Faribault	Given to the city by Anna Buckham in memory of her husband
15	Louis Carufel and E. LaRose		01990-08-03August 3, 1990	425 3rd Street SW 44°17′13″N 93°16′31″W	Faribault
16	Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour		01979-08-10August 10, 1979	515 2nd Avenue NW 44°17′49″N 93°16′16″W	Faribault	Built 1862 - 1869, it is the oldest cathedral in Minnesota and the first church in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America designed as a cathedral
17	Chapel of the Good Sheperd		01975-04-04April 4, 1975	At Shattuck School 44°18′05″N 93°15′39″W	Faribault
18	Church of the Annunciation-Catholic		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	County Highway 46 44°30′56″N 93°17′12″W	Northfield
19	Church of the Holy Cross-Episcopal		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	2nd Street 44°25′33″N 93°12′13″W	Dundas
20	Church of the Most Holy Trinity (Catholic)		01997-11-13November 13, 1997	4938 North Washington Street 44°30′57″N 93°27′35″W	Wheatland Township
21	Gordon Cole and Kate D. Turner House		01990-08-03August 3, 1990	111 2nd Street NW 44°17′32″N 93°16′13″W	Faribault
22	Congregational Church of Faribault		01977-05-12May 12, 1977	227 3rd Street NW 44°17′36″N 93°16′21″W	Faribault
23	John N. and Elizabeth Taylor Clinton Cottrell House		01990-08-03August 3, 1990	127 1st Street NW 44°17′28″N 93°16′15″W	Faribault
24	Den Svenska Evangeliska Lutherska Christdala Forsamlingen		01995-05-18May 18, 1995	4695 Millersburg Rd. 44°25′59″N 93°21′26″W	Forest Township	Property submission to the NRHP
25	Reverend James Dobbin House		01990-07-23July 23, 1990	1800 14th Street NE 44°18′41″N 93°15′50″W	Faribault
26	Edwin S. Drake Farmhouse		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	County Highway 22 44°25′31″N 93°09′43″W	Bridgewater Township
27	Episcopal Rectory		01990-08-09August 9, 1990	112 6th Street NW 44°17′50″N 93°16′13″W	Faribault
28	Faribault City Hall		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	208 1st Avenue NW 44°17′34″N 93°16′13″W	Faribault
29	Faribault Historic Commercial District		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	Central Avenue and 2nd and 3rd Streets 44°17′35″N 93°16′05″W	Faribault
30	Faribault Viaduct		01989-11-06November 6, 1989	Division Street over the Straight River 44°17′27″N 93°16′00″W	Faribault
31	Faribault Water Works		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	7th Street NW 44°17′54″N 93°16′55″W	Faribault
32	Alexander Faribault House		01970-09-22September 22, 1970	12 1st Avenue NE 44°17′27″N 93°16′00″W	Faribault	The first wood-frame house built in Rice County
33	Farmer Seed and Nursery Company		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	818 4th Street NW 44°17′41″N 93°16′53″W	Faribault
34	Goodsell Observatory--Carleton College		01975-05-12May 12, 1975	Off 1st Street East 44°27′43″N 93°09′09″W	Northfield	Upon construction in 1887, it was the largest observatory in the state of Minnesota
35	M. P. Holman House		01990-08-03August 3, 1990	107 3rd Avenue NW 44°17′29″N 93°16′21″W	Faribault
36	Hospital, State School for the Feeble Minded		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	Off 6th Avenue SE 44°16′56″N 93°15′28″W	Faribault
37	John Hutchinson House		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	305 2nd Street NW 44°17′31″N 93°20′09″W	Faribault
38	Johnston Hall-Seabury Divinity School		01975-03-21March 21, 1975	1st and State Streets SE 44°17′20″N 93°15′25″W	Faribault
39	Vincent and Elizabeth Lieb House		01990-07-23July 23, 1990	201 4th Avenue SW 44°17′17″N 93°16′27″W	Faribault
40	Lonsdale Public School		01979-08-30August 30, 1979	3rd Avenue SW 44°28′43″N 93°25′49″W	Lonsdale
41	Drew H. Lord House		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	201 East 3rd 44°27′27″N 93°09′28″W	Northfield
42	Wiliam Martin House		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	Bridge and 1st Streets 44°25′41″N 93°12′14″W	Dundas
43	Cormack McCall House		01990-08-03August 3, 1990	817 Ravine Street NE 44°17′40″N 93°15′18″W	Faribault
44	Thomas McCall House		01990-08-03August 3, 1990	102 4th Avenue SW 44°17′21″N 93°16′28″W	Faribault
45	Timothy J. McCarthy Building		01990-08-03August 3, 1990	24 3rd Street NW 44°17′38″N 93°16′09″W	Faribault
46	Thomas Bridget Shanahan McMahon House		01990-07-19July 19, 1990	603 Division Street East 44°17′25″N 93°15′30″W	Faribault
47	Nerstrand City Hall		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	Main St. 44°20′30″N 93°04′05″W	Nerstrand
48	Northfield Commercial Historic District		01979-06-11June 11, 1979	Roughly bounded by Water, Division, 3rd, and 5th Sts. 44°27′24″N 93°09′37″W	Northfield
49	Noyes Hall, State School for the Deaf		01975-05-12May 12, 1975	Off 6th Avenue NE 44°17′49″N 93°15′40″W	Faribault	Public residential school serving deaf children in Minnesota
50	Jonathon L. and Elizabeth H. Wadsworth Noyes House		01990-08-09August 9, 1990	105 1st Ave., NW. 44°17′30″N 93°16′10″W	Faribault
51	John C. Nutting House		01970-10-15October 15, 1970	217 Union St. 44°27′28″N 93°09′22″W	Northfield
52	Old Main, Saint Olaf College		01976-06-03June 3, 1976	St. Olaf College campus 44°27′35″N 93°10′48″W	Northfield	designed by Long and Haglin
53	Osmund Osmundson House		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	East Nerstrand and North Main Streets 44°20′38″N 93°03′53″W	Nerstrand
54	John Gottlieb Pfeiffer House		01990-08-03August 3, 1990	931 3rd Avenue NW 44°18′05″N 93°16′22″W	Faribault
55	Phelps Library, Shattuck School		01975-04-04April 4, 1975	Off Shumway Avenue 44°18′10″N 93°15′44″W	Faribault
56	Rice County Courthouse and Jail		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	218 3rd St., NW. 44°17′38″N 93°16′17″W	Faribault	Art Deco building constructed of natural-face Faribault stone horizontally banded at intervals with sawed-faced stone
57	Rock Island Depot		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	3rd Street and 1st Avenue NE 44°17′39″N 93°15′54″W	Faribault
58	O. E. Rolvaag House		01969-08-04August 4, 1969	311 Manitou St. 44°27′48″N 93°10′20″W	Northfield	Home of Ole Edvart Rølvaag
59	Saint Mary's Hall		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	4th Street NE and 4th Avenue NE 44°17′43″N 93°15′47″W	Faribault
60	Sciver Block Building		01978-05-05May 5, 1978	Bridge Square and Division Street 44°27′22″N 93°09′37″W	Northfield
61	Scoville Memorial Library		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	1st Street East and College Street 44°27′36″N 93°09′20″W	Northfield
62	Shattuck Historic District		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	Shumway Avenue 44°18′04″N 93°15′37″W	Faribault
63	Shumway Hall and Morgan Refectory-Shattuck School		01975-04-04April 4, 1975	Off Shumway Avenue 44°18′09″N 93°15′36″W	Faribault
64	Skinner Memorial Chapel		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	1st, Winona, and College Streets 44°27′36″N 93°09′15″W	Northfield
65	Steensland Library-Saint Olaf College		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	Off Saint Olaf Avenue 44°27′35″N 93°10′50″W	Northfield	designed by Omeyer & Thori
66	Theopold Mercantile Co. Wholesale Grocery Building		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	1st Avenue and 3rd Street NE 44°17′38″N 93°15′58″W	Faribault
67	Trondhjem Norwegian Lutheran Church		02001-09-07September 7, 2001	8501 Garfield Avenue 44°27′51″N 93°24′08″W	Webster
68	Valley Grove		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	County Road 29 off Minnesota Highway 246 44°21′42″N 93°06′02″W	Nerstrand	Two religious buildings built on a grassy knoll by Norwegian immigrants
69	Thorstein Veblen Farmstead		01975-06-30June 30, 1975	Northeast of Nerstrand off Minnesota Highway 246 44°20′54″N 93°02′47″W	Nerstrand	adolescent home of Thorstein B. Veblen
70	Adam Weyer Wagon Shop		01990-07-12July 12, 1990	32 2nd Street NE 44°17′33″N 93°16′01″W	Faribault
71	Willis Hall		01975-06-13June 13, 1975	College Street 44°27′38″N 93°09′21″W	Northfield
72	Hudson Wilson House		01982-04-06April 6, 1982	104 1st Avenue NW 44°17′29″N 93°16′12″W	Faribault

See also

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

Further reading

Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3. 

External links

• Detailed list of properties