Anton Gogala Farmstead

Built in 1875. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Anton Gogala Farmstead is a historic farmstead in Krain Township, Minnesota, United States. For over a century it remained a small-scale dairy farm operated by a Slovene American family, and contains traditionally constructed buildings and structures dating back to 1875, including several built of logs.”
Wikipedia article Anton Gogala Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Stearns County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1875.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Gogala, Anton, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Hwy. 39 and MN 238, St. Anthony, 56307
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Stearns County MRA
Township. Krain township
When was it built? 1875
National Register reference number. 82003048 - 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

189 words

This property stands in Krain Township. History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Krain Township - 189 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Anton Gogala Farmstead: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Thieman Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stearns 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
Church of the Sacred Heart (Catholic)	4.0 miles	1991
Freeport Roller Mill and Miller's House	4.1 miles	1982
Church of the Immaculate Conception-Catholic	6.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003048 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.

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.