# National Register of Historic Places listings in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lac qui Parle 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 10 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. A supplementary list includes three additional sites that were formerly on the National Register.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 28, 2025.

## Current listings

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| | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description |
| 1 | Camp Release State Monument | Camp Release State Monument More images | March 14, 1973 (#73000981) | About 2 miles southwest of Montevideo off U.S. Route 212 44°55′58″N 95°44′54″W﻿ / ﻿44.932861°N 95.748333°W﻿ / 44.932861; -95.748333﻿ (Camp Release State Monument) | Montevideo vicinity | Surrender site where prisoners taken by the Dakota people were released at the conclusion of the Dakota War of 1862 and the first military trials were held. Marked with an 1894 monument. |
| 2 | Commercial Bank Building | Commercial Bank Building | January 28, 1982 (#82002978) | 6th St. 44°55′46″N 96°03′16″W﻿ / ﻿44.929564°N 96.054458°W﻿ / 44.929564; -96.054458﻿ (Commercial Bank Building) | Dawson | Well-preserved example of a 19th-century Richardsonian Romanesque bank, built in 1892 for Christopher M. Anderson, an influential early pioneer and civic leader in Lac qui Parle County, and founder of Dawson. The building is currently being used as a museum of the city of Dawson. |
| 3 | Dawson Armory and Community Building | Dawson Armory and Community Building | May 18, 1995 (#95000615) | 676 Pine St. 44°55′45″N 96°03′20″W﻿ / ﻿44.929175°N 96.055653°W﻿ / 44.929175; -96.055653﻿ (Dawson Armory and Community Building) | Dawson | Multipurpose 1923 facility representative of the Minnesota National Guard armories of the 1920s, and the long-serving center of Dawson's civic life, housing the city's offices and principal meeting spaces. The building is currently being used as a public library and apartment building. |
| 4 | Dawson Carnegie Library | Dawson Carnegie Library | August 15, 1985 (#85001770) | 677 Pine St. 44°55′43″N 96°03′20″W﻿ / ﻿44.928705°N 96.055688°W﻿ / 44.928705; -96.055688﻿ (Dawson Carnegie Library) | Dawson | Neoclassical Carnegie library built 1917–8, representing the philanthropy of the Carnegie Foundation, the work of regional architect A. H. Foss, and the civic importance of the Dawson Public Library, founded in the 1890s. The building is currently being used as a law office. |
| 5 | Lac qui Parle County Courthouse | Lac qui Parle County Courthouse More images | August 15, 1985 (#85001759) | 600 6th St. 45°00′54″N 96°11′35″W﻿ / ﻿45.015082°N 96.193188°W﻿ / 45.015082; -96.193188﻿ (Lac qui Parle County Courthouse) | Madison | Monumental 1899 courthouse designed by Buechner & Jacobson, and a symbol of Madison's triumph in a protracted 17-year battle for county seat status. |
| 6 | Lac qui Parle Mission Archeological Historic District | Lac qui Parle Mission Archeological Historic District More images | March 14, 1973 (#73000971) | Address restricted 45°01′28″N 95°52′04″W﻿ / ﻿45.024365°N 95.86789°W﻿ / 45.024365; -95.86789﻿ (Lac qui Parle Mission Archeological Historic District) | Montevideo vicinity | Sites of the 1826 Fort Renville trading post and an 1841 mission church (reconstructed in the 1940s), plus associated Euro-American and Dakota habitations. Extends into Chippewa County. |
| 7 | Lac qui Parle State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District | Lac qui Parle State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District More images | August 19, 1991 (#91001055) | Off County Highway 33 at the southeastern end of Lac qui Parle 45°01′17″N 95°53′11″W﻿ / ﻿45.021389°N 95.886389°W﻿ / 45.021389; -95.886389﻿ (Lac qui Parle State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District) | Montevideo vicinity | Three park facilities built 1938–41, significant as examples of Depression-era federal work relief, the extensive New Deal projects conducted around Lac qui Parle, and National Park Service rustic architecture. |
| 8 | Louisburg School | Louisburg School | June 20, 1986 (#86001348) | 1st St. at 3rd Ave. 45°10′06″N 96°10′17″W﻿ / ﻿45.168374°N 96.171273°W﻿ / 45.168374; -96.171273﻿ (Louisburg School) | Louisburg | One of west-central Minnesota's best examples of a Victorian public school—built in 1911—and an emblem of the efforts in the state's small communities to provide local school facilities. |
| 9 | Madison Carnegie Library | Madison Carnegie Library | August 23, 1985 (#85001823) | 401 6th Ave. 45°00′45″N 96°11′37″W﻿ / ﻿45.012472°N 96.193498°W﻿ / 45.012472; -96.193498﻿ (Madison Carnegie Library) | Madison | One of west-central Minnesota's earliest and most stylistically unusual Carnegie libraries, built 1905–6, and one of three monumental public buildings forming Madison's distinctive civic campus. |
| 10 | Madison City Hall | Madison City Hall | August 23, 1985 (#85001820) | 404 6th Ave. 45°00′45″N 96°11′34″W﻿ / ﻿45.012553°N 96.192817°W﻿ / 45.012553; -96.192817﻿ (Madison City Hall) | Madison | Neoclassical city hall and opera house designed by Buechner & Orth and built 1902–3, a long-serving center of civic and social life and a representative of Madison's expansive early-20th-century community planning. |

## Former listings

| | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Description |
| 1 | Hotel Lac qui Parle | Upload image | December 6, 1990 (#90001820) | August 2, 2000 | 202 6th Ave. | Madison | 1902 hotel. Demolished in 1999. |
| 2 | Andreus Thoreson Farmhouse | Upload image | November 15, 1974 (#74001030) | February 13, 1991 | Off CR 64 | Madison | Ornate 1899 Queen Anne farmhouse of a prominent settler (1832–1914). Burned down by an accidental fire in 1989. |
| 3 | Yellow Bank Church Campground Bridge | Upload image | November 6, 1989 (#89001831) | June 30, 1998 | Twp. Rd. 76 over Yellow Bank River (original location) Current coordinates are 44°37′49″N 92°50′25″W﻿ / ﻿44.630266°N 92.840231°W﻿ / 44.630266; -92.840231﻿ (Yellow Bank Church Campground Bridge) | Odessa | 1893 truss bridge of a unique design by the King Bridge Company. Moved in 1994 to the Little Log House Pioneer Village outside Hastings, Minnesota, to complete a replica of the 1895 Hastings Spiral Bridge. |