Minnesotans can boast of a treasure trove of historic buildings, landmarks, and sites in our state. Produced by Minnesota's State Historic Preservation Office, this comprehensive, illustrated guide, useful for travel or armchair research, includes the districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects significant to the state's history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, and culture. A county-by-county inventory presents descriptive information for each property including name, location, date, architectural style and designer, original owner, and entertaining historical sidelights. From churches to water towers, lighthouses to shipwrecks, a gas station to a fur-trade depot, this book delivers the wealth and variety of Minnesota's history into your hands.