# National Register of Historic Places listings in Brown County, Minnesota

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Brown County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Brown 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 39 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. A supplementary list includes six additional sites that were formerly listed on the National Register.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 28, 2025.

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| | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description |
| 1 | Bendixon-Schmid House | Bendixon-Schmid House | December 31, 1979 (#79001218) | 123 N. Marshall St. 44°14′27″N 94°58′32″W﻿ / ﻿44.240833°N 94.975556°W﻿ / 44.240833; -94.975556﻿ (Bendixon-Schmid House) | Springfield | 1894 Queen Anne house representative of Springfield's enclave of large, professional-class homes, owned successively by two notable figures in the city's development as an early commercial center. |
| 2 | C. Berg's Hotel | C. Berg's Hotel | February 6, 2012 (#11001084) | 145 W. Main St. 44°17′49″N 94°43′27″W﻿ / ﻿44.296964°N 94.724033°W﻿ / 44.296964; -94.724033﻿ (C. Berg's Hotel) | Sleepy Eye | 1899 hotel whose first-class accommodations, dining room, and display space for traveling salesmen were a key amenity in a regional milling and commerce center. |
| 3 | Bjorneberg Garage | Bjorneberg Garage More images | December 31, 1979 (#79001197) | Broadway St. 44°08′52″N 94°29′38″W﻿ / ﻿44.147804°N 94.493904°W﻿ / 44.147804; -94.493904﻿ (Bjorneberg Garage) | Hanska | Otherwise typical representative of the first automobile service stations—built c. 1919—made distinctive by its concrete bas-reliefs of motoring scenes. |
| 4 | Boesch, Hummel, and Maltzahn Block | Boesch, Hummel, and Maltzahn Block | December 31, 1979 (#79001201) | 6-12 N. Minnesota St. 44°18′49″N 94°27′33″W﻿ / ﻿44.313725°N 94.459146°W﻿ / 44.313725; -94.459146﻿ (Boesch, Hummel, and Maltzahn Block) | New Ulm | Most elaborate intact example—built in 1890—of the Main Street commercial blocks constructed in area towns around the turn of the 20th century. Also a contributing property to the New Ulm Commercial Historic District. |
| 5 | Chicago and North Western Depot | Chicago and North Western Depot | June 25, 1992 (#92000822) | Oak St., NW. 44°17′54″N 94°43′25″W﻿ / ﻿44.298341°N 94.723523°W﻿ / 44.298341; -94.723523﻿ (Chicago and North Western Depot) | Sleepy Eye | Large 1902 railway station, a major component of Sleepy Eye's transportation infrastructure in the first half of the 20th century when the city was a key railroad center in Southern Minnesota. |
| 6 | Chicago and North Western Railroad Depot | Chicago and North Western Railroad Depot | December 31, 1979 (#79001202) | S. Valley St. 44°18′47″N 94°27′13″W﻿ / ﻿44.312981°N 94.453505°W﻿ / 44.312981; -94.453505﻿ (Chicago and North Western Railroad Depot) | New Ulm | Circa-1895 railway station attesting to the late-19th-century rail network that made New Ulm an important junction between the agricultural hinterland and urban markets. |
| 7 | District No. 50 School | District No. 50 School | January 24, 2017 (#100000564) | 20837 U.S. 14 44°19′33″N 94°35′24″W﻿ / ﻿44.325897°N 94.590133°W﻿ / 44.325897; -94.590133﻿ (District No. 50 School) | Milford Township | Unusually intact 1912 one-room school built on a state-issued architectural plan. Also noted for representing efforts to provide nearby, locally-controlled education for rural Minnesota youth. Now the Milford Town Hall. |
| 8 | Bernard Fesenmaier House | Bernard Fesenmaier House | December 31, 1979 (#79001203) | 426 N. State St. 44°19′01″N 94°27′58″W﻿ / ﻿44.316807°N 94.466154°W﻿ / 44.316807; -94.466154﻿ (Bernard Fesenmaier House) | New Ulm | One of the most intact examples of New Ulm's late-19th-century German-style houses, built c. 1888 with polychrome brick. |
| 9 | Flandrau State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources | Flandrau State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources More images | October 25, 1989 (#89001658) | Off County Highway 13 southeast of New Ulm 44°17′32″N 94°28′13″W﻿ / ﻿44.292111°N 94.470221°W﻿ / 44.292111; -94.470221﻿ (Flandrau State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources) | New Ulm | Park facilities with 24 contributing properties built 1934–42 with Germanic architectural elements, significant as examples of New Deal federal work relief, early Minnesota state park development, and National Park Service rustic design that uniquely harmonizes with local cultural context. |
| 10 | Wanda Gág Childhood Home | Wanda Gág Childhood Home | December 31, 1979 (#79001204) | 226 N. Washington St. 44°18′51″N 94°27′56″W﻿ / ﻿44.3142°N 94.465622°W﻿ / 44.3142; -94.465622﻿ (Wanda Gág Childhood Home) | New Ulm | Home from birth to age 20 of artist and author Wanda Gág (1893–1946), whose 1928 children's book Millions of Cats helped establish the picture book format. Now a museum. |
| 11 | Grand Hotel | Grand Hotel More images | June 21, 1990 (#90000986) | 210 N. Minnesota St. 44°18′57″N 94°27′40″W﻿ / ﻿44.315763°N 94.461034°W﻿ / 44.315763; -94.461034﻿ (Grand Hotel) | New Ulm | 1876 Italianate hotel expanded in 1899, a key amenity in New Ulm's economic development and its finest example of commercial Victorian architecture. Also a contributing property to the New Ulm Commercial Historic District. |
| 12 | Hermann Monument | Hermann Monument More images | October 2, 1973 (#73000965) | Hermann Heights Park 44°18′26″N 94°28′22″W﻿ / ﻿44.307098°N 94.472862°W﻿ / 44.307098; -94.472862﻿ (Hermann Monument) | New Ulm | Landmark 120-foot (37 m) monument built 1887–89 by the Sons of Hermann society to honor the nation's German American heritage. |
| 13 | Frederick W. Kiesling House | Frederick W. Kiesling House | February 23, 1972 (#72000674) | 220 N. Minnesota St. 44°18′58″N 94°27′40″W﻿ / ﻿44.316168°N 94.461113°W﻿ / 44.316168; -94.461113﻿ (Frederick W. Kiesling House) | New Ulm | One of New Ulm's few remaining early houses—built in 1861—and a rare survivor of the Battles of New Ulm during the Dakota War of 1862. Also a contributing property to the New Ulm Commercial Historic District. |
| 14 | Kreitinger Garage | Kreitinger Garage | December 31, 1979 (#79001219) | 1 N. Cass St. 44°14′21″N 94°58′27″W﻿ / ﻿44.239167°N 94.974167°W﻿ / 44.239167; -94.974167﻿ (Kreitinger Garage) | Springfield | c. 1911 car dealership with ornamental brickwork, a striking remnant of the early years of automobile use in Brown County. |
| 15 | Lampert Lumber Company Line Yard | Lampert Lumber Company Line Yard | December 31, 1979 (#79001196) | Center St. 44°19′30″N 94°36′19″W﻿ / ﻿44.325°N 94.605278°W﻿ / 44.325; -94.605278﻿ (Lampert Lumber Company Line Yard) | Essig | Nominated as an extremely rare intact example of a small-town lumber store, built in 1919. Demolished except for an outlying shed. |
| 16 | Liberal Union Hall | Liberal Union Hall | December 31, 1979 (#79001198) | Broadway and Main Sts. 44°08′56″N 94°29′38″W﻿ / ﻿44.149009°N 94.493907°W﻿ / 44.149009; -94.493907﻿ (Liberal Union Hall) | Hanska | 1910 community center founded by the Unitarian separatists of the Nora Free Christian Church; noted as a long-serving local event venue and a symbol of a regionally unique religious group. |
| 17 | Gov. John Lind House | Gov. John Lind House | December 31, 1974 (#74001005) | 622 Center St. 44°18′45″N 94°27′43″W﻿ / ﻿44.312363°N 94.46186°W﻿ / 44.312363; -94.46186﻿ (Gov. John Lind House) | New Ulm | 1887 Queen Anne house of populist politician John Lind (1854–1930), four-term congressman and 14th governor of Minnesota. |
| 18 | Melges Bakery | Melges Bakery | June 28, 1974 (#74001006) | 213 S. Minnesota St. 44°18′39″N 94°27′23″W﻿ / ﻿44.310884°N 94.456435°W﻿ / 44.310884; -94.456435﻿ (Melges Bakery) | New Ulm | One of New Ulm's few intact 19th-century commercial buildings, an 1865 butcher shop converted and expanded into a bakery in 1871. |
| 19 | New Ulm Armory | New Ulm Armory | December 31, 1979 (#79001205) | 205 N. Broadway St. 44°18′53″N 94°27′47″W﻿ / ﻿44.314589°N 94.462981°W﻿ / 44.314589; -94.462981﻿ (New Ulm Armory) | New Ulm | 1914 armory, leading example of the fortresslike style used in Minnesota before World War I, and home of one of the state's oldest National Guard companies, originating in 1871. |
| 20 | New Ulm Commercial Historic District | New Ulm Commercial Historic District More images | December 21, 2005 (#05001438) | Roughly bounded by Minnesota St. between 1st St., S. and 3rd St., N. 44°18′51″N 94°27′36″W﻿ / ﻿44.314299°N 94.459921°W﻿ / 44.314299; -94.459921﻿ (New Ulm Commercial Historic District) | New Ulm | 4-block downtown district important in the economic development of south-central Minnesota, with 64 contributing properties—including retail, bank, and service buildings, plus theatres, meeting halls, and government offices—mostly built between the 1880s and 1948. |
| 21 | New Ulm High School | New Ulm High School | July 21, 2015 (#15000438) | 1 N. State St. 44°18′44″N 94°27′46″W﻿ / ﻿44.3122°N 94.4628°W﻿ / 44.3122; -94.4628﻿ (New Ulm High School) | New Ulm | 1915 school expanded in 1939 and 1956, reflecting the transformation of public high school education from the Progressive Era of the original section to the federal work relief of the 1930s and the Post–World War II baby boom. Later used as the New Ulm Junior High School. |
| 22 | New Ulm Oil Company Service Station | New Ulm Oil Company Service Station | December 31, 1979 (#79001206) | Broadway and Fifth Streets 44°19′04″N 94°27′54″W﻿ / ﻿44.3178°N 94.4649°W﻿ / 44.3178; -94.4649﻿ (New Ulm Oil Company Service Station) | New Ulm | Fanciful 1926 gas station flanked by two towers, a rare surviving example of the eyecatching custom designs built throughout southern Minnesota by a local company as automobile use expanded in the 1920s. |
| 23 | New Ulm Post Office | New Ulm Post Office More images | April 28, 1970 (#70000287) | 2 N. Broadway 44°18′47″N 94°27′37″W﻿ / ﻿44.3130°N 94.4603°W﻿ / 44.3130; -94.4603﻿ (New Ulm Post Office) | New Ulm | Striking 1909 Renaissance Revival post office designed to reflect the heritage of New Ulm's original Germanic settlers. Also a contributing property to the New Ulm Commercial Historic District. Now houses the Brown County Historical Society. |
| 24 | Nora Free Christian Church | Nora Free Christian Church More images | August 4, 1988 (#88001176) | Minnesota Highway 257 44°08′36″N 94°28′53″W﻿ / ﻿44.1432°N 94.4814°W﻿ / 44.1432; -94.4814﻿ (Nora Free Christian Church) | Hanska | 1883 church, 1906 parsonage, and cemetery associated with Norwegian intellectual Kristofer Janson (1841–1917) and his protégé Amandus Norman, who founded a liberal Unitarian minority among the state's conservative Lutheran Norwegian immigrants. |
| 25 | Adolph C. Ochs House | Adolph C. Ochs House | December 31, 1979 (#79001220) | 303 N. Marshall St. 44°14′32″N 94°58′33″W﻿ / ﻿44.2423°N 94.9757°W﻿ / 44.2423; -94.9757﻿ (Adolph C. Ochs House) | Springfield | 1911 Colonial Revival house of the founder of the A.C. Ochs Brick and Tile Company, a major local industry. |
| 26 | Old Main, Dr. Martin Luther College | Old Main, Dr. Martin Luther College More images | December 31, 1979 (#79001208) | College Heights, Martin Luther College campus 44°18′21″N 94°28′16″W﻿ / ﻿44.3058°N 94.4712°W﻿ / 44.3058; -94.4712﻿ (Old Main, Dr. Martin Luther College) | New Ulm | 1884 original building of a Lutheran college; a leading example of Gothic Revival architecture in Minnesota and a distinctive symbol of local religious education. |
| 27 | August Schell Brewing Company | August Schell Brewing Company | December 27, 1974 (#74001007) | 20th South St. 44°17′21″N 94°26′59″W﻿ / ﻿44.2892°N 94.4497°W﻿ / 44.2892; -94.4497﻿ (August Schell Brewing Company) | New Ulm | Only surviving example of New Ulm's seven early breweries—established in 1860—with highly intact industrial buildings, residences, and gardens. |
| 28 | Otto Schell House | Otto Schell House More images | December 31, 1979 (#79001210) | Point Lookout 44°17′29″N 94°26′50″W﻿ / ﻿44.2915°N 94.4471°W﻿ / 44.2915; -94.4471﻿ (Otto Schell House) | New Ulm | c. 1895 house of the second-generation manager of the August Schell Brewing Company, significant for its well-preserved Queen Anne architecture and association with an important local business. |
| 29 | Shady Lane Stock Farm | Shady Lane Stock Farm | December 31, 1979 (#79001221) | U.S. Route 14 44°15′04″N 94°56′48″W﻿ / ﻿44.251°N 94.9466°W﻿ / 44.251; -94.9466﻿ (Shady Lane Stock Farm) | Springfield | Farm with four structures built 1898–1913, significant for its regional influence in progressive farming (especially stock breeding), owner LaForest E. Potter's extensive agricultural association activity, and its prototype of the brick "A.C.O." silos erected throughout the Midwest. |
| 30 | Sleepy Eye Milling Company | Sleepy Eye Milling Company | February 8, 1991 (#91000038) | Junction of 4th and Oak Sts., NE. 44°17′55″N 94°43′06″W﻿ / ﻿44.2987°N 94.7183°W﻿ / 44.2987; -94.7183﻿ (Sleepy Eye Milling Company) | Sleepy Eye | Flour milling complex with 20 contributing properties built 1901–1921, southern Minnesota's most complete example of an important agricultural processing industry. |
| 31 | W. W. Smith House | W. W. Smith House | December 31, 1979 (#79001211) | 101 Linden St., SW. 44°17′34″N 94°43′24″W﻿ / ﻿44.2928°N 94.7232°W﻿ / 44.2928; -94.7232﻿ (W. W. Smith House) | Sleepy Eye | c. 1901 house, Sleepy Eye's best-preserved example of the large residences erected by its professional class at the turn of the 20th century. Now a bed and breakfast. |
| 32 | South Broadway Historic District | South Broadway Historic District | December 31, 1979 (#79001212) | 200–308 S. Broadway 44°18′39″N 94°27′33″W﻿ / ﻿44.3108°N 94.4592°W﻿ / 44.3108; -94.4592﻿ (South Broadway Historic District) | New Ulm | Locally distinctive row of eight brick houses constructed 1895–1906, and associated with a cross-section of New Ulm's professional class at the turn of the 20th century. |
| 33 | South German Street Historic District | South German Street Historic District | December 31, 1979 (#79001217) | 110–312 S. German St. 44°18′43″N 94°27′21″W﻿ / ﻿44.3119°N 94.4558°W﻿ / 44.3119; -94.4558﻿ (South German Street Historic District) | New Ulm | Eight houses mostly built 1884–1899, significant as Southwest Minnesota's best collection of large, late-19th-century residences and for their association with the era's business leaders in New Ulm. |
| 34 | St. Michael's School and Convent | St. Michael's School and Convent | December 31, 1979 (#79001213) | 500 N. State St. 44°19′02″N 94°27′59″W﻿ / ﻿44.3171°N 94.4665°W﻿ / 44.3171; -94.4665﻿ (St. Michael's School and Convent) | New Ulm | 1872 Italianate parochial building with a slightly later Second Empire height addition and 1898 Gothic Revival chapel, a rare example of early institutional architecture in Brown County. |
| 35 | Synsteby Site | Synsteby Site | May 12, 1975 (#75000976) | Address restricted 44°06′59″N 94°32′53″W﻿ / ﻿44.1164°N 94.5480°W﻿ / 44.1164; -94.5480﻿ (Synsteby Site) | Hanska | Archaeological site unique in Minnesota for exhibiting four distinct cultural components: two separate Woodland period occupations, a Mississippian culture phase, and an 1863 Euro-American fort. Now preserved within Lake Hanska County Park. |
| 36 | Thormodson Barn | Thormodson Barn | December 31, 1979 (#79001199) | Off Minnesota Highway 257 44°07′50″N 94°26′27″W﻿ / ﻿44.1306°N 94.4409°W﻿ / 44.1306; -94.4409﻿ (Thormodson Barn) | Hanska | 1912 hexadecagonal barn, Brown County's only known example of the round barn fad and one of the few in southwestern Minnesota. |
| 37 | Turner Hall | Turner Hall | December 31, 1979 (#79001215) | 102 S. State St. 44°18′37″N 94°27′39″W﻿ / ﻿44.3103°N 94.4608°W﻿ / 44.3103; -94.4608﻿ (Turner Hall) | New Ulm | 1873 gymnasium and meeting hall of the Turners group that helped settle New Ulm in 1856; a symbol of the city's founding, its German-American heritage, and this once-common immigrant organization. |
| 38 | The Way of the Cross | The Way of the Cross | November 2, 2020 (#100004756) | 1500 Fifth Street North 44°18′42″N 94°28′39″W﻿ / ﻿44.3117°N 94.4774°W﻿ / 44.3117; -94.4774﻿ (The Way of the Cross) | New Ulm | Stations of the Cross built from 1903-04 (renovations in 2004 and 2018), featuring the traditional 14 station that include statues imported from Bavaria, along a 700-foot brick path to a chapel dedicated to the Mother of Sorrows; possibly the first Stations of the Cross listed on the NRHP. |
| 39 | Winona and St. Peter Freight Depot | Winona and St. Peter Freight Depot | December 31, 1979 (#79001216) | Oak St., NE. 44°17′55″N 94°43′17″W﻿ / ﻿44.2986°N 94.7215°W﻿ / 44.2986; -94.7215﻿ (Winona and St. Peter Freight Depot) | Sleepy Eye | c. 1887 Winona and St. Peter Railroad depot, oldest surviving building associated with the transformative first years of rail access in Brown County. |

## Former listings

| | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Description |
| 1 | Chicago and North Western Section House | Chicago and North Western Section House | December 31, 1979 (#79001195) | March 28, 1990 | Railroad and Brown Sts. (original address) Current coordinates are 44°04′29″N 95°39′54″W﻿ / ﻿44.0746°N 95.6651°W﻿ / 44.0746; -95.6651﻿ (Chicago and North Western Section House) | Comfrey | c. 1899 section house, nominated as Brown County's last remaining structure associated with its later granger rail lines. Moved to End-O-Line Railroad Park in Currie, Minnesota in 1988. |
| 2 | Cobden Jail | Cobden Jail | December 31, 1979 (#79001194) | August 8, 1991 | 2nd Street 44°17′11″N 94°51′01″W﻿ / ﻿44.2864°N 94.8504°W﻿ / 44.2864; -94.8504﻿ (Cobden Jail) | Cobden | Built c. 1900. Significantly altered in 1989. |
| 3 | New Ulm Roller Mill Complex | New Ulm Roller Mill Complex | December 31, 1979 (#79001207) | June 25, 1986 | 222 1st South St. | New Ulm | Flour mill complex dating to 1910. Burned down in the early 1980s. |
| 4 | Ruemke Mercantile Store | Upload image | December 31, 1979 (#79001209) | May 4, 1984 | 226 N. Minnesota | New Ulm | 1895 Queen Anne commercial building. Demolished in 1981. |
| 5 | Tivoli Gardens | Upload image | December 31, 1979 (#79001214) | May 15, 1987 | 313 1st North St. | New Ulm | 1885 restaurant. Demolished in 1985. |
| 6 | Twente Farm Elevator and Granary | Upload image | December 31, 1979 (#79001200) | September 25, 1987 | off Co. Rd. 16 | Albin Township | 1885 agricultural buildings. Demolished in 1986. |