![]() 1911 car dealership with ornamental brickwork, a striking remnant of the early years of automobile use in Brown County. Also a contributing property to the New Ulm Commercial Historic District. 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. Landmark 120-foot (37 m) monument built 1887–89 by the Sons of Hermann society to honor the nation's German American heritage. One of the most intact examples of New Ulm's late-19th-century German-style houses, built c. 1888 with polychrome brick. Also noted for representing efforts to provide nearby, locally-controlled education for rural Minnesota youth. Unusually intact 1912 one-room school built on a state-issued architectural plan. Ĥ4☁8′47″N 94☂7′13″W / 44.312981°N 94.453505°W / 44.312981 -94.453505 ( Chicago and North Western Railroad Depot)Ĭirca-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. 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. Most elaborate intact example-built in 1890-of the Main Street commercial blocks constructed in area towns around the turn of the 20th century. Otherwise typical representative of the first automobile service stations-built c. 1919-made distinctive by its concrete bas-reliefs of motoring scenes.
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