National Register of Historic Places listings in Aitkin County, Minnesota

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

Location of Aitkin County in Minnesota

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Aitkin 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 12 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 29, 2021.[1]

Current listings
[2] Name on the Register[3] Image Date listed[4] Location City or town Description
1 Aitkin Carnegie Library
Aitkin Carnegie Library
 April 16, 1982
(#82002924)		 121 2nd St., NW.
46°31′59″N 93°42′34″W		 Aitkin Well-preserved example of a Carnegie library—built 1911—and a prominent local example of Neoclassical architecture.[5]
2 Aitkin County Courthouse and Jail
Aitkin County Courthouse and Jail
 April 16, 1982
(#82002923)		 209 and 217 2nd St., NW.
46°31′59″N 93°42′37″W		 Aitkin Long-serving seat of Aitkin County government, consisting of a 1915 jail and a 1920 courthouse, the latter exemplifying the second-generation Beaux-Arts courthouses built around Minnesota in the early 20th century.[6]
3 Andy Gibson (shipwreck)
Andy Gibson (shipwreck)
 August 28, 2012
(#12000558)		 Mississippi River, 0.75 miles (1.21 km) downstream from County Highway 1 Bridge[7]
46°32′25″N 93°43′01″W		 Aitkin Rare and well-preserved remains of a Mississippi River steamboat, launched in 1884 to serve the headwaters region. Unique among U.S. shipwrecks for still resting on its 1894 drydock cradle.[7]
4 Arthyde Stone House
Arthyde Stone House
 April 16, 1982
(#82002930)		 County Road 27
46°21′16″N 93°05′22″W		 Arthyde Fieldstone bungalow built circa 1922 in a short-lived settlement, a locally prominent reminder of the failed townsite speculation common to northern Minnesota's cutover land during the Roaring Twenties.[8]
5 Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
 April 16, 1982
(#82002928)		 Off County Highway 12
46°28′34″N 93°37′00″W		 Aitkin 1897 church representative of the Swedish American population that predominated in southwest Aitkin County.[9]
6 Patrick Casey House
Patrick Casey House
 April 16, 1982
(#82002925)		 4th St., SE. and 2nd Ave.
46°31′36″N 93°42′13″W		 Aitkin 1901 Queen Anne/Classical Revival house of a prominent local businessman (1849–1910) behind the Potter/Casey Company. Also one of northern Minnesota's few architecturally distinctive residences outside of Duluth and the Iron Range cities.[10]
7 Malmo Mounds and Village Site
Malmo Mounds and Village Site
 April 3, 1975
(#75000974)		 Northwestern quarter of Section 32, Township 45 North, Range 25 West[11]
46°20′48″N 93°31′57″W		 McGrath Village site and some 72 mounds dating to the early Middle Woodland Period, the type site and best preserved assemblage of the region's distinct Malmo Phase.[12]
8 National Woodenware Company Superintendent's Residence April 16, 1982
(#82002929)		 252 Ione Ave. NE.
46°59′35″N 93°35′40″W		 Hill City 1910 manager's housing, chief remnant of an Armour and Company subsidiary that was Hill City's principal employer and developer 1910–1928.[13]
9 Northern Pacific Depot
Northern Pacific Depot
 April 16, 1982
(#82002926)		 20 Pacific St., SW.
46°31′54″N 93°42′28″W		 Aitkin Railway station built 1915–16, symbolizing the importance of the railroad in Aitkin's founding and development.[14] Now a museum.[15]
10 Pine-Hickory Lakes Roadside Parking Area
Pine-Hickory Lakes Roadside Parking Area
 May 23, 2016
(#16000276)		 US 169, .25 mi. N. of 249th Ln.
46°26′38″N 93°44′17″W		 Aitkin Roadside park built 1937–38, a large example of the state's early highway waysides developed during the New Deal. Also noted for its National Park Service rustic design.[16]
11 Potter/Casey Company Building
Potter/Casey Company Building
 April 16, 1982
(#82002927)		 E. Minnesota Ave. between 1st and 2nd Sts., NW.
46°31′58″N 93°42′23″W		 Aitkin 1902 commercial building constructed for Aitkin County's leading mercantile business.[17]
12 Savanna Portage
Savanna Portage
 April 23, 1973
(#73000963)		 Off County Highway 5 in Savanna Portage State Park
46°49′42″N 93°10′32″W		 McGregor Difficult but vital 6-mile (9.7 km) portage linking the Great Lakes and Mississippi basins, blazed by Native Americans and used into the fur trade and early settlement eras.[18]

See also

References
  1. "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on January 29, 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 24, 2008.
  4. 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.
  5. Haidet, Mark (February 1981). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Aitkin Public Library". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-09-06. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. Haidet, Mark (February 1981). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Aitkin County Courthouse and Jail". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-09-06. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. Merriman, Ann; Christopher Olson (2012-01-23). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Andy Gibson" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2013-11-10. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. Haidet, Mark (February 1981). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Arthyde Stone House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-09-06. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. Haidet, Mark (February 1981). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Church". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-09-05. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. Haidet, Mark (February 1981). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Casey, Patrick, House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-09-05. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. Aufderheide, Arthur C., et al. "Health, Demography, and Archaeology of Mille Lacs Native American Mortuary Populations". Plains Anthropologist 39.149 (1994): 251-375: 273.
  12. George, Douglas (1974-12-10). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Malmo Mounds and Village Site (21AK1)". National Park Service. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. Haidet, Mark (February 1981). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: National Woodenware Company Superintendent's Residence". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-09-05. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. Haidet, Mark (February 1981). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Northern Pacific Depot". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-09-01. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. "Depot Museum". Aitkin County Historical Society. 2017. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
  16. Granger, Susan; Scott Kelly (December 2015). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Pine-Hickory Lakes Roadside Parking Area" (PDF). Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-13. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. Haidet, Mark (February 1981). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: Potter-Casey Company Building". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-08-27. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. Mitchell, Diana (1973-03-16). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Savanna Portage". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-08-27. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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