Watonwan County Courthouse

Built in 1896 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“James, Minnesota, United States, is the seat of government for Watonwan County, in continual use since it was completed in 1896. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 for having state-level significance in the themes of architecture and politics/government.”
Wikipedia article Watonwan County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Watonwan County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1896, Romanesque Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Seventh St., S. and Second Ave., S., St. James, 56081
When was it listed? January 1987
Category. building
City. St. James city
When was it built? 1896
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 86003591 - 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.

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
	Grand Opera House	0.2 miles	2009
	Alfred R. Voss Farmstead	1.9 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003591 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Watonwan County	All 6 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.