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Grand Hotel, New Ulm, MN
Grand Hotel, New Ulm, MN

**Grand Hotel** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 90000986, date listed 6/21/1990

210 N. Minnesota St.

New Ulm, MN (Brown County)

The Grand Hotel is a three-story Italianate style brick building located in the center of New Ulm's late nineteenth century business district

As originally constructed in 1876, this building was two stories high and called the Union Hotel. In 1899, new owners added a third story and changed the name to the Grand Hotel. At the same time the heating, plumbing, and lighting fixtures were upgraded, and a brick addition was extended from the rear. The building has had few exterior changes since then.

Immediately after treaties were signed with the Dakota Indians at Mendota and Traverse des Sioux in 1851, the Minnesota River Valley in the southern part of Minnesota Territory was opened for settlement. In 1854 the first large group of settlers from the Chicago Land Society arrived in Brown County. Organized by German immigrants in Chicago who sought to establish their own Midwestern colony, the settlers platted the New Ulm townsite in 1855. Within a year they were joined by the Turner Germans from the Cincinnati Settlement Society, and together they created the German Land Association of Minnesota. Founded as a trading and agricultural center. New Ulm was unlike many other villages in the area because it was not platted by or for the railroad; instead, its development relied on Minnesota River steamboats from the 1850s until the early 1870s. (1)

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...

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