Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The village of Belview is one of the neatest and most active in the county, and the spirit of its citizens has done much for the progress and advancement of the whole community. It is located in section 8, Kintire township, on the Minneapolis & St.”
The History of Redwood County, Minnesota (1916). Machine-read text.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Redwood County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off Main St., Belview, 56214
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Redwood County MRA
City. Belview city
National Register reference number. 80002129 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

2,180 words

The chapter on Belview City in The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 names Belview. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The village of Belview is one of the neatest and most active in the county, and the spirit of its citizens has done much for the progress and advancement of the whole community. It is located in section 8, Kintire township, on the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad, 119 miles from Minneapolis, and five miles from Echo, in Yellow Medicine county. Redwood Falls, with which it is connected with a splendid gravel state road, is fifteen miles away. Education, religious, public and commercial affairs, are given deep attention, and there are found here: Norwegian Lutheran Synod, Swedish Augustana Lutheran, and English Congregational churches; a school house costing $20,000 and covering eight grades and a four years' high school course; a circular park ; a village hall costing $4,000 ; a fire house and fire company with gasoline engine, hose truck, and chemical extinguishers; a modern creamery and Farmers' Elevator Co.; with other ele- vators, stores, and business enterprises necessary to an up-to-date and thrifty country village. The Commercial club, the Automobile club and the band all tend to make the place widely known.

Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.

The Belview Automobile club was organized in the spring of 1913. Its first and present officers are : A. O. Gimmestad, president; Wm. Mack, vice-president, H. O. Hegdal, secretary, N. W. Eide, treasurer. It has taken active interest in better roads, has bought five road drags, seeded road sides to tame grass, etc., and has had annual tours in different directions each year, annual banquets, and is a very active and lively club, consisting of about sixty members. A. O. Gimmestad is now, and has been the last three years, its member on the board of directors of the Minnesota State Automobile Association.

Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Belview City - 2,180 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Depot: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Delano Granite Future Quarry	Granite	Prospect
Hetle Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rikke Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Redwood County

Storms near this property

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belview, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Belview	$200,000	An EF-1 tornado continued along a path across northwest Redwood County, northeast to the Minnesota River, or approximately 3.5 miles north of Delhi where it crossed the Minnesota River into Renville County. The most concentrated area of tornadic damage with hundreds of trees uprooted or blown down was in the town of Belview. In addition, a few homes were damaged along the tornado path.
August 2001	Hail	Belview	$25,000	Numerous vehicles dented. Hail ripped through a few tin buildings.
June 2019	Funnel Cloud	Belview	-	A firefighter observed a funnel cloud moving near their home.
July 2019	Heavy Rain	Belview	-	There was a measured rainfall report of 3.44 inches near Belview.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Belview	-	Several trees and power lines were blown down in Belview.
July 2018	Flood	Belview	-	Southwest Minnesota received significant rainfall during the morning of Tuesday, July 3rd. Runoff from the excessive rainfall caused widespread flooding throughout the county. Several roads closed for a long period of time due to the flood waters. These roads include Highway 19 at the intersection of County Road 5 and Highway 14 from Tracy to Walnut Grove and Springfield. \|\|A 16-year-old driver in southwestern Minnesota had to climb out his cars back window after heavy rains washed out the road and he drove into a sinkhole. The Renville County Sheriffs Office said the sinkhole was formed after a culvert beneath the township road was washed out.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Belview	-	Due to excessive rainfall in a short period of time, flood waters caused the basement walls of homes in Belview to collapse.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Belview	-	Power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
April 2019	Hail	Belview	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Belview	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Belview	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Belview	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Redwood County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Gimmestad Land and Loan Office	under 500 feet	1980
Odeon Theater	0.2 miles	1974
Delhi Coronet Band Hall	5.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002129 in Record Group 79.
Redwood County	All 23 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.