Blooming Prairie Commercial Historic District

Main St. E. between Highway Ave. and 2nd Ave. NE., Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. County/parish: Steele.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 05, 1994. NRIS 94000832.

20 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

Blooming Prairie Commercial Historic District

The Blooming Prairie Commercial Historic District is a designation applied to the historic downtown of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, United States. It comprises 20 contributing properties built between 1893 and 1932. It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 for having local significance in the theme of commerce. It was nominated for being an unusually intact business district of an agricultural trade center on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad.

The Blooming Prairie Commercial Historic District comprises both sides of Main Street East for a distance of two blocks.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93203098

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