National Historic Landmark · house · Sauk Centre, Minnesota

Lewis, Sinclair, Boyhood Home

Historic house in Minnesota, United States in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Added to the National Register in 1968, and a National Historic Landmark.

Open to visitNational Historic LandmarkListed 1968Gothic Revival
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Photos via Wikimedia Commons · 4 in the Commons category

What it is

Wikipedia · Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home

The Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States. From 1889 until 1902 it was the home of young Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), who would become the most famous American novelist of the 1920s and the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most famous book, Main Street, was inspired by the town of Sauk Centre as Lewis perceived it from this home.

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The record

National Register of Historic Places
Property typeBuilding
Address812 Sinclair Lewis Ave., Sauk Centre, MN
CountyStearns County
ListedMay 23, 1968
Reference number68000027
Type of placehouse
StyleGothic Revival
DesignationsNational Historic Landmark
Contributing resources2 buildings

The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗

Visiting

Open to the public
Address812 Sinclair Lewis Ave., Sauk Centre, MN
Websitesinclairlewisfoundation.com/boyhood_home/boyhood_home.htm ↗
Coordinates45.73740, -94.95738 · Directions ↗
Nearest national park unitMississippi National River & Recreation Area · 106 mi · on Park Atlas
This one you can go inside. Hours and admission change with the season; the website above has the current schedule.

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Sources

Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 68000027. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.