Map of North Dakota highlighting Grand Forks County

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grand Forks County, North Dakota. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in Grand Forks County,

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. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. With 73 properties and districts listed on the National Register, Grand Forks County has more listings than any of the state's other 52 counties. The city of Grand Forks has been damaged by floods and fires numerous times, including by floods of the Red River, overflowing its banks in record floods in 1882, 1893, 1897, 1950, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1975, 1978, and 1979." Many of the historic buildings listed on the National Register date from the 1890s period. Many buildings of that era were designed by architects

Joseph Bell DeRemer Joseph Bell DeRemer (1871–1944), who lived and worked in Grand Forks, North Dakota, was one of the finest architects in North Dakota. Some of the important works produced by him or his firm, which included his son Samuel Teel DeRemer, include ...

and others; over 60 percent of the commercial buildings were built by the Dinnie Brothers, bricklayers. Other notable architects whose work is reflected in the listings include:

Buechner & Orth Buechner & Orth was a St. Paul, Minnesota-based architectural firm that designed buildings in Minnesota and surrounding states, including 13 courthouses in North Dakota. It was the subject of a 1979 historic resources study. (main body of documen ...

, Theodore B. Wells, George Hancock and John W. Ross. A large number of buildings were identified as worth preserving in a 1981 study of Downtown Grand Forks historical resources. This led to many individual buildings being NRHP-listed, and to the listing of several large

historic districts A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from cer ...

. The 1997 flood and fire destroyed some of the National Register-listed buildings. In 2005, despite the flood and fire damage to the area, the Downtown Grand Forks Historic District was listed. The most recent listings, in 2010, are the University of North Dakota Historic District and

WPA Stone Structures in Memorial Park and Calvary Cemetery WPA Stone Structures in Memorial Park and Calvary Cemetery, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. It includes work by Ray F. Wyrick, "'a noted cemetery landscape engineer' from Des Moines, ...

, and in 2011,

The Kegs Drive-In The Kegs is a historic drive-in located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The restaurant takes the form of two large wooden barrels. The barrel structures were originally built in 1935 as part of a chain of seven walk-up root beer stands called The ...

. A large number of the listings were prepared by Dr. Norene Roberts, of North Dakota State University. Additional notes for many are archived at the university.

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Grand Forks Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the state of North Dakota (after Fargo and Bismarck) and the county seat of Grand Forks County. According to the 2020 census, the city's population was 59,166. Grand Forks, along with its twin city o ...

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