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Crookston Commercial Historic District

Roughly Main St. and Broadway between Fletcher and W. 2nd St., Crookston, Minnesota

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Crookston Commercial District

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Description 

The Crookston Commercial Historic District reflects the city's early period of growth, which was prompted by agriculture and the railroad industry. The district remains a large, and mostly intact, concentration of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commercial structures. -- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS MN-153)

National Register information 

Status
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 23, 1984
Reference number
84002709
Architectural styles
Late 19th and 20th Century Revival; Victorian
Areas of significance
Commerce; Architecture
Level of significance
Local
Evaluation criteria
A - Event; C - Design/Construction
Property type
District
Historic functions
Specialty store; Business
Current functions
Business; Specialty store
Periods of significance
1900-1924; 1875-1899; 1925-1949
Significant years
1882; 1941
Number of properties
Contributing buildings: 39
Non-contributing buildings: 21

Tags 

19th Century (37,678)
Brick (42,462)
Built 1882 (439)
Built during 1880s (6,463)
Ceramic tile (3,229)
Crookston, Minnesota (5)
District (10,427)
 E. H. Strassberg (1)
Historic American Buildings Survey (1,238)
Late 19th and 20th Century Revival (16,279)
Minnesota (1,750)
Polk County, Minnesota (10)
Stone (26,160)
Victorian (19,697)

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