Walnut Street Historic District is a
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...
in
Chaska, Minnesota
Chaska ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Carver County, Minnesota, Carver County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 27,810 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. An outer ring suburb of the Twin Cities located southwe ...
, United States, listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
. The district is roughly bounded by Walnut, Second, Chestnut, and Sixth Streets. It contains burial mounds representing the area's prehistory, and the buildings and structures in the district represent Chaska's period of commercial, industrial, religious, and residential development.
Houses within this district include the
Greek Revival
Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...
style and other
Neoclassical styles.
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1980 establishments in Minnesota
Chaska, Minnesota
Geography of Carver County, Minnesota
Greek Revival architecture in Minnesota
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
National Register of Historic Places in Carver County, Minnesota
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