Minnesota - Stearns County - Historic Districts
Stearns County Minnesota (Historic Districts) has 7 places on the National Register of Historic Places including 2 places of National significance and 1 place of Statewide significance. Significant places include Original Main Street Historic District, St. John's Abbey and University Historic District and Minnesota Home School for Girls Historic District, St. Benedict's Convent and College Historic District and St. Cloud Commercial Historic District.

Some of the country's most noteable architects helped create the Stearns County places including Clarence H. Johnston Sr., Gregory Steil, George Stauduhar, Bahner, F., et al. and Charles R. Aldrich. Prominent architectural styles found in Stearns Country are Romanesque, Classical Revival and Colonial Revival.

Minnesota Home School for Girls Historic District (added 1989 - - #88003090)
Also known as Minnesota Correctional Facility--Sauk Centre
Off MN 302 , Sauk Centre
Gobonobo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Johnston,Clarence H.,Sr.
Architectural Style:
Other, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Other, Social History
Period of Significance:
1925-1949, 1900-1924
Owner:
State
Historic Function:
Domestic, Government
Historic Sub-function:
Correctional Facility, Institutional Housing
Current Function:
Domestic, Government
Current Sub-function:
Correctional Facility, Institutional Housing
Original Main Street Historic District (added 1994 - - #94000758)
Also known as See also: Palmer House Hotel
Main St. between S. Eighth and N. Third Sts. , Sauk Centre
McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Event
Area of Significance:
Social History
Period of Significance:
1925-1949, 1900-1924
Owner:
Mixed
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Education, Government, Industry/Processing/Extraction, Landscape, Recreation And Culture, Religion, Transportation
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Education, Government, Landscape, Recreation And Culture, Religion, Transportation
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Pan Town Residential District (added 1982 - - #82005283)
Thirty, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Aves. N , St. Cloud
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St. Benedict's Convent and College Historic District (added 1989 - - #89000160)
Also known as St. Benedict's Convent
College Ave. and Minnesota St. , St. Joseph
Bobak, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Stauduhar,George, Steil,Gregory
Architectural Style:
Romanesque, Beaux Arts, Renaissance
Area of Significance:
Education, Architecture, Religion
Period of Significance:
1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Religion
Historic Sub-function:
Church Related Residence, Church School, Religious Structure
Current Function:
Religion
Current Sub-function:
Church Related Residence, Church School, Religious Structure
St. Cloud Commercial Historic District (added 1998 - - #98000153)
Also known as See Also:Stearns County Courthouse;First National Bank
Roughly along W. St. Germain St., betweem Fifth Ave. and Tenth Ave. , St. Cloud
McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Event
Area of Significance:
Commerce
Period of Significance:
1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874
Owner:
Federal, Local, Private
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade
Historic Sub-function:
Business, Department Store, Financial Institution, Organizational, Professional, Specialty Store
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade
Current Sub-function:
Business, Organizational, Professional, Specialty Store
St. Cloud Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District (added 2012 - - #12000524)
4801 Veterans Dr., St. Cloud
Bobak, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architectural Style:
Colonial Revival, Classical Revival
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Politics/Government, Health/Medicine
Period of Significance:
1925-1949, 1900-1924
St. John's Abbey and University Historic District (added 1979 - - #79001256)
Co. Hwy. 159 , Avon
Bobak, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Multiple
Architectural Style:
Romanesque, Second Empire, Late Victorian
Area of Significance:
Education, Community Planning And Development, Religion, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Education, Religion
Historic Sub-function:
Church Related Residence, College, Religious Structure
Current Function:
Education, Religion
Current Sub-function:
Church Related Residence, College, Religious Structure
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