Chicago and North Western Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

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

Sources: 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. 1st St., Lucan, 56255
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Redwood County MRA
Township. Granite Rock township
National Register reference number. 80002135 - 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

433 words

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

Granite Rock township is located in the west central part of Redwood county, and embraces Congressional township 111-38. It is bounded on the north by Vesta, on the east by Vail, on the south by Johnsonville, and on the west by Westline. A branch of the Redwood river crosses it on the northern side, flowing in a northeasterly direction. The Evan-Marshall branch of the Chicago and Northwestern passes due east and west through its, center. The surface is generally rolling. Its only village is Lucan. The trading centers are Lucan, Vesta, Wabasso, and Redwood Falls. There are five school houses. The predominating nationality is German.

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 Granite Rock Township - 433 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lucan, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
April 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Lucan	$250,000	Several witnesses and storm spotters observed a tornado touchdown south of Lucan, Minnesota. The tornado tracked to the southeast and damaged a farmhouse, which included several outbuildings, a greenhouse, pole barn, and shed. Based on damage the tornado was rated an EF0 with top winds of 80 mph. The tornado lifted one quarter of a mile southeast of the farmhouse where debris was thrown one half mile.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucan	$40,000	Part of roof from shed ripped off. Several trees down, including one on shed. Grain bin tipped over.
July 2018	Heavy Rain	Lucan	-	A measured rainfall report of 4.55 inches fell west of Lucan in 24 hours.
June 2005	Funnel Cloud	Lucan	-	Law enforcement reported seeing a funnel cloud reach half way to the ground, then lift back into the clouds.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucan	-	A barbeque grill was blown 35 feet across gravel and crashed into the side of a garage.
August 2025	Hail	Lucan	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Lucan	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Lucan	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Lucan	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Lucan	-	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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Milroy State Bank Building	7.1 miles	1980
	Commercial Hotel	7.5 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002135 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.
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.