National Register of Historic Places listings in Steele County, Minnesota
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Steele County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Steele 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.
Location of Steele County in Minnesota
There are 13 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including one National Historic Landmark. A supplementary list includes five additional sites that were formerly on the National Register.
1887 Romanesque Revival main building of a state school complex active 1886–1970.[6] Also a contributing property to the Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children historic district.[7] Now contains the Minnesota State Public School Orphanage Museum and city offices.
Campus of a pioneering public institution for juvenile wards of the state, active 1886–1947, with 19 contributing properties. Also associated with nationally significant child welfare advocate Galen A. Merrill.[10] Now the West Hills Complex.
Multipurpose municipal hall built 1906–7, significant as Owatonna's government center and as an example of Minnesota's common late-19th/early-20th-century municipal buildings.[13] Also a contributing property to the Owatonna Commercial Historic District.[12]
12-block downtown district with 75 contributing properties built 1871 to the late 1950s, associated with the growth and prosperity of an agricultural/industrial community and county seat.[12]
Five campus buildings constructed 1889–1914 for the only Baptist school among Minnesota's 19th-century private institutions of higher education. Also noted for their architecture and association with benefactors Mark H. Dunnell and George A. Pillsbury.[15] A boundary increase was approved on May 17, 2021.
