Off Twnshp. Rd. 358, Tower, Minnesota. County/parish: St. Louis.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 09, 1990. NRIS 90000499.
Part of Rural Finnish Log Buildings of St. Louis County, Minnesota, 1890-1930s MPS (NRIS 64500292).
5 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site.
The Elias and Lisi Aho Farmstead () is a historic farmstead in Waasa Township, Minnesota, United States. It was established by a Finnish immigrant family and includes five surviving buildings constructed with traditional Finnish log architecture from 1902 to 1907. The farm was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 for its state-level significance in the themes of agriculture, architecture, and European ethnic heritage. The Aho Farmstead was nominated for reflecting the successful cultivation of northeastern Minnesota's cutover forests by Finnish American settlers and their use of traditional log architecture.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93200969