Carver County Historical Society

Carver County Historic Places on the National Register

The list below is current as of October, 2014.

Amblard, Emile, Guest House
32-36 N. Vine St., Waconia
Frame house on “mainland” designed and built ca. 1900 by developer of Coney Island resort area.

Anne Marie's Decorating
224 Chestnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Anton Knoblach Bank
309 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Anton Knoblach Grain Elevator (razed)
Co. Hwy. 40, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Anton Knoblach Grain Elevator (razed)
Co. Hwy. 40, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Anton Knoblach House
112 3rd St. E, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Barber Shop and Saloon
300 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Blacksmith Shop, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Bridge L-2526
4th St. over Carver Spring, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Bridge L-2722
6th St. over Carver Spring, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Bridge L-2783
Main St. over Carver Spring, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Brinkhaus Saloon Livery Barn
112 W. 4th St., Chaska
Building of Chaska brick constructed ca. 1875 to house livery business that provided transportation and mail service to surrounding communities.

Buetow House
300 3rd St. E, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Caretaker's Cottage (Rev. Andrew Jackson Home)
off Co. Hwy. 40, Dahlgren Twp.
Located in King Oscar's Settlement

Carver Cottage
121 6th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Carver Creamery and Ice House
Broadway & 5th St., Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Carver Fire Department
117 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Carver Historic District
vicinity of Lime, 1st, Walnut, and 6th Sts., Carver
Collection of 100 commercial, religious, residential, and social buildings in 19th-century Minnesota River town

Carver Mill/Masonic Hall (razed)
200 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Carver School
420 Oak St. N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Chanhassen Township Hall (removed)
Great Plains Blvd., Chanhassen

Charles Dauwalter House
413 N. Broadway, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Charles Klein House/Library
314 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Chaska Auto Body
115 2nd St. E., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Chaska Historical Marker
County Highway 61 near Edgehill Road, Chaska

Chris Klein House/City Hall
204 4th St. E., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Christian Bristle House
200 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Church of Saint Hubertus (Catholic)
Great Plains Blvd. and W. 78th St., Chanhassen
Gothic-style church of red brick with cream-colored Chaska brick trim, built in 1887 for German Catholic community of Chanhassen.

Claesson House
209 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

commercial building
208 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Coney Island of the West
Lake Waconia, Waconia Twp.
Summer resort/recreation area in Lake Waconia developed during late-19th and early-20th centuries.

Cordrary House/Carver County Printing
316 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

D. Swanson House
212 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Dauwalter Garage/Blacksmith
421 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Dennin House
200 Main St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Diedrick Building
100 2nd St. E., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Dienslake House
412 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Dikeside
121 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Double House
121 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Dragotis House
201 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Drazan House
200 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Drugstore
313 Broadway, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Drugstore and Post Office
221 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Duncan House
216 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

DuToit Bank
205 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

DuToit, Frederick E., House
121 Hickory St., Chaska
House of cream-colored Chaska brick built ca. 1870 for state legislator and longtime publisher of Chaska Herald newspaper.

Earl Dauwalter House
320 Ash St., Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

East Lake House
208 Main St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

East Union Lutheran Church
off Co. Hwy. 40, Dahlgren Twp.
Located in King Oscar's Settlement

East Union Lutheran Church Cemetery
off Co. Hwy. 40, Dahlgren Twp.
Located in King Oscar's Settlement

East Union Parsonage
off Co. Hwy. 40, Dahlgren Twp.
Located in King Oscar's Settlement

Eder-Baer House
105 Elm St., Chaska
Queen Anne residence (ca. 1900) of cream-colored Chaska brick, a widely used, locally manufactured building material.

Edmund Ess House
212 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Ess Brothers Foundry and Machine Shop (razed)
218 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Ess House
211 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Ess House
217 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Finkel House
120 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

First Faber and Linenfelser Store
123 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Floyd Holtz House
116 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Frank Miesseler House
206 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Funk Bank
308 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Funk Hardware Store
401 N. Broadway, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

G. Riesgraf House
300 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

garage
xxx Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Gehl's Meat Market & Ice House
212 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

George DuToit Bank
2nd St. E., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Gibson House
308 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Goetze House
117 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Golnick House
109 4th St. E, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Greek Revival House
401 Main St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Greiner, Frederick, House
319 E. 3rd St., Chaska
House of cream-colored Chaska brick built ca. 1870 for early political figure and proprietor of Chaska House, community’s first hotel.

Grimm, Wendelin, Farmstead
off Co. Hwy. 11 (Carver Park Reserve), Laketown Twp.
Farmhouse of cream-colored Chaska brick built in 1876 for developer of Grimm alfalfa, first U.S. strain of winter-hardy alfalfa.

Guettler, Philip, House
Adams and Mill Sts., Cologne
House of cream-colored Chaska brick built in 1902 for owner of city’s major industry, Cologne Milling.

Hammer & Bierstettel Store
107 2nd St. E., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Harms, J. Casten and Magaretha, House
1110 Cty. Rd. 152, Benton Twp.

Hebeisen Hardware Store
Railroad and Maria Sts., Hamburg
Brick commercial building (1907), site of early cooperative association that provided goods and services to agricultural community.

Hebeisen, Jacob, House
off Co. Hwy. 50, Hamburg
Residence built in 1884 for one of Hamburg’s leading merchants.

Heck, Albertine and Fred, House
8941 Audubon Rd., Chanhassen
Farmhouse (ca. 1895) of cream-colored Chaska brick, a widely used, locally manufactured building material.

Henry Young House
109 2nd St. E., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Herald Block
123 W. 2nd St., Chaska
Commercial building of cream-colored Chaska brick, home of Chaska Herald newspaper since 1871.

Hilldale
412 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Hotel Luksenborg
309 Oak St., Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Houghton/Skoog House
120 3rd St. E, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

house
404 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

house
108 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

house
100 5th Ave., Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

house
420 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

house
416 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

house
205 4th St. N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Iltis Brewery and Ice House (removed)
597 Stoughton Ave., Chaska

John Funk House
112 4th St. E, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

John Hebeisen Hardware Store
109 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

John Hebeison House ("The Gables")
201 4th St. E, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Johnson General Store (razed)
317 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

K. Hammer Building
123 2nd St. E., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

K.K. Klammer House
302 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

King Oscar's Settlement
Co. Hwy. 40, Dahlgren Twp.
Complex of church and parish buildings associated with early Swedish Lutheran settlement, established in 1853.

Kings Arms Company
xxx Broadway, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Kling House
120 Main St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Knotz, John, House
Paul and Mill Sts., Cologne
Residence (1905) of Dr. John Knotz, medical doctor for railroad lines, and Rosa Partoll Knotz, women’s rights advocate and Cologne mayor.

Kusske and Hahn Saloon (removed)
Co. Hwy. 23, Watertown Twp.

Laketown Moravian Brethren's Church
Co. Hwy. 11, Victoria
Church of Chaska brick built in 1878 for one of two outposts of Chaska Moravian congregation

Larson House
201 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Lenzen House
208 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Levi Griffin House
113 4th St. E, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Lewis, E. H., House
321 W. 2nd St., Chaska
Ca. 1870 residence of Chaska brick, owned successively by Faber family of hoteliers and merchants and physician Lewis.

Lund House
209 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Luthy House
209 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

M. Dauwalter House
112 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

M. Goetz House
212 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Maiser, Charles, House
16 W. Main St., Waconia
Italianate frame house built ca. 1875 for Maiser family of grain millers.

Meuwissen House and Barn
220 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Mobil Gas Station Office
204 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Mobil Oil Gas Station
200 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Mock Cigar Factory and House
48 W. Main St., Waconia
False-front factory and attached Italianate house (ca. 1875) owned by E. H. Mock, proprietor of early Waconia industry.

Mohrbacher, Paul, House
102 Paul Ave. S., Cologne
Ca. 1880 brick home of Cologne founder and civic leader.

Moldenhauer House
116 Main St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Moravian Church
115 4th St. E., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Nelson Drugstore
304 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Nord House
423 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Norwood Methodist Episcopal Church
Hill and Union Sts., Norwood
Frame church with bell tower designed and built in 1876 by Norwood civic leader James Slocum Jr.

Oesterich House
400 Oak St. N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Olaf Hanson House
217 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Old Fire Station
108 4th St. E, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

P. Swenson House
309 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Paris Hall (St. Ansgar Academy)
off Co. Hwy. 40, Dahlgren Twp.
Located in King Oscar's Settlement

Pesek House
217 4th St., Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Peterson, Andrew, Farmstead
Mn. Hwy. 5, Laketown Twp.
Farmstead (ca. 1867-98) of Swedish immigrant farmer and horticulturist whose 43-year diary recorded life in 19th-century Minnesota.

Phillip Henk Hardware Store
2nd St. E., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Phillips House
112 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Plekkenpol House
301 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Poppitz House
217 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Post Office
220 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Presbyterian Church
109 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Public Square, Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Read House
201 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Rev. Raedeke House
501 Oak St. N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Riverside Bar
120 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Roger Dauwalter House
209 4th St., Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Roger Dauwalter House
308 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Saint Nicholas Church (Catholic)
412 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Saint Nicholas School
412 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Salem Lutheran Church
221 3rd St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Schimmelpfennig, Johann, Farmstead
off U.S. Hwy. 212, Benton Twp.
Log and frame farm buildings (1856-1909) documenting evolution of Minnesota farmsteads.

Schmidt House
415 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Second Faber and Linenfelser Store
200 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Simons Building and Livery Barn
123 W. 3rd St., Chaska
Commercial/residential buildings of Chaska brick (1888-1890s) that housed a saloon, second-story hotel, and livery stable for patron use. Photo of Simons Building and Livery Barn

Springside
113 4th St. E, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

St. Nicholas Church Activity Hall
412 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Steinberger House
320 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Swanson House
221 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Swedish Methodist Church
220 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Temperance Hotel
100 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

tenement houses
414-22 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Tengblad House
220 Main St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Thaemart House
121 4th St. E, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

The Sunflower
xxx Broadway, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Tholen House
213 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Trinity Lutheran Church
417 Oak St. N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Village Hall
316 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Waconia City Hall
9 W. First St., Waconia
Red brick civic building designed in 1909 by Charles S. Sedgwick to accommodate city offices, fire station, and public hall. Photo of Waconia City Hall

Walnut Street Historic District
vicinity of Walnut, 2nd, Chestnut, and 6th Sts., Chaska
Buildings, structures, and burial mounds representing area’s prehistory through its period of commercial, industrial, religious, and residential development.

Walter Anderson House
117 4th St. E, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Werner Store
2nd St. E., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

West Main Street Houses
417, 429, and 453 W. Main St., Waconia
One Chaska brick residence (1886) and two frame “carpenter’s catalogue" houses (1898, 1903) showing individual interpretation by local craftsmen. Photo of West Main Street Houses

West Union
Co. Hwy. 50, Hancock Twp.
Church (1868) and parish hall (1905) forming religious and social center of early Swedish Lutheran settlement. Photo of West Union

Wiebe House
116 4th St. W, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Winter Saloon
Elm and Hazel Streets, Norwood
Saloon/meeting hall with second-floor proprietor’s residence, built ca. 1890 for Winter brothers, holders of Norwood’s first liquor license. Photo of Winter Saloon

Wolff House
207 Walnut St., Chaska
Located in Walnut Street Historic District

Woodman Hall
408 Broadway N, Carver
Located in Carver Historic District

Young America City Hall
102 2nd Ave. S., Young America
Red brick building with corner tower built in 1909 as headquarters for municipal government. Photo of Young America City Hall

Zoar Moravian Church
Co. Hwy. 10, Laketown Twp.
Greek Revival frame church built in 1863 for one of two outposts of Chaska Moravian congregation. Photo of Zoar Moravian Church