Northern Pacific Depot

Off Washington Ave., Villard, Minnesota. County/parish: Pope.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 06, 1983. NRIS 83003760.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Villard station

The Northern Pacific Depot or Villard Depot is a historic railway station in Villard, Minnesota, United States, built in 1882. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for having local significance in exploration/settlement and transportation. The depot was constructed upon the completion of a new Northern Pacific Railway line and the platting of a new trackside town named after the railway's president Henry Villard. The Little Falls and Dakota Branch line, running between Little Falls and Morris, Minnesota, provided a key link between the agricultural region of west-central Minnesota and the Great Lakes port of Duluth. The depot now marks the eastern terminus of the Villard–Starbuck Trail, a rail trail in development from Villard through Glenwood, Starbuck, and on to Glacial Lakes State Park.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93202548

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