Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
“The John Oster House is a historic house in Cold Spring, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1907 for one of three co-owners of the Cold Spring Brewing Company.”
Wikipedia article John Oster House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Stearns County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1907.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Wakefield Township in History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 names Cold Spring. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Wakefield lies in the southeast part of the county, and is bounded on the north by Collegeville, on the east by Rockville, on the south by Luxemburg, and on the west by Munson. It contains an area of 23,040 acres, of which about sixty per cent is under cultivation, and embraces the whole of township 123, range 30. The surface is undulating and in places quite broken. Originally the greater part of the township was covered with brush and poplar groves, with here and there a patch of open prairie. The soil is variable, but chiefly a rich, black loam, very productive, with clay and gravel subsoil. The Sauk river enters the town on section 30, and crosses in an easterly direction, forming an excellent water-power at Cold Spring.
Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.
In 1853, William Buchanan, being directed by Gen. Lowry, then residing near St. Cloud, made a claim near the present site of Cold Spring City. He was accompanied by a number of Winnebago Indians, who assisted him in the erection of a log cabin, but only remained a few weeks.
Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.
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 Wakefield Township - 5,557 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of John Oster House: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gertkin Marl Pits | Limestone, General | Producer | Marl | |
| Richmond Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cold Spring Crushing Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Rockville Shop | Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Opalescent Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| Rockville Quarry No 1 | Granite | Producer | ||
| Rockville Quarry No 2 | Granite | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cold Spring, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cold Spring | - | no account filed |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ferdinand Peters House | under 500 feet | 1982 |
 | Eugene Hermanutz House | under 500 feet | 1982 |
 | Clark and McCormack Quarry and House | 4.6 miles | 1982 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82003041 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Stearns County | All 36 listed properties in this county. |
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