The Weaver Mercantile Building is a historic building in the unincorporated community of

Weaver, Minnesota Weaver is an unincorporated community in Minneiska Township, Wabasha County, Minnesota, United States. The Whitewater River and the Mississippi River meet at Weaver. Geography The community is located 13 miles southeast of Wabasha along U.S. H ...

, United States, built in 1875. It was listed 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 1978 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and commerce. It was nominated for being one of the few surviving commercial buildings in the once-thriving

Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...

community, and a well-preserved example of a form of commercial

Italianate architecture The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

popular along the river valley.

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{{National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota 1875 establishments in Minnesota Buildings and structures in Wabasha County, Minnesota Commercial buildings completed in 1875 Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota Italianate architecture in Minnesota National Register of Historic Places in Wabasha County, Minnesota

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