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Grand Marais, Minnesota. / 47.75389°N 90.33528°W / 47.75389; -90.33528. Grand Marais ( / məˈreɪ / mə-RAY) [6] is a city and the county seat of Cook County, Minnesota, United States, of which it is the only municipality. It is on Lake Superior 's North Shore. Grand Marais had a population of 1,337 at the 2020 census. [2]
86001548 [1] Designated. October 13, 1986. The Bally Blacksmith Shop is a historic building in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States, built in 1911 and used for nearly a century by three generations of the Bally family blacksmiths. The shop was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [2] [3] [4] It was nominated for being ...
Designated. November 28, 1978. The Lightkeeper's House, also known as the Cook County History Museum, is a historic building in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and was nominated for being "a significant survivor of the settlement along Minnesota's north shore during the ...
Chik Wauk Lodge, now Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center, is a historic building near the northern terminus of the Gunflint Trail northwest of Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States. It overlooks Saganaga Lake . It was built in 1933. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, and was nominated for being "representative of ...
Added to NRHP. February 4, 2004. The Pickle Barrel House is a two-story cabin built to in the shape of two barrels. The house design is based on the artwork of William Donahey, an author-illustrator who created the Teenie Weenies cartoon characters that were two inches (5.1 cm) tall [2] [3] and lived under a rose bush in a pickle barrel. [4]
Congressional district. 8th. Website. www .co .cook .mn .us. Cook County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,600, [1] making it Minnesota's seventh-least populous county. Its county seat is Grand Marais. [2] The Grand Portage Indian Reservation is in the county.
County State-Aid Highway 12 ( CSAH 12 ), also known as the Gunflint Trail, or County Road 12 (CR 12), is a 57-mile (92 km) paved roadway and National Scenic Byway in Cook County, Minnesota, that begins in Grand Marais and ends at Saganaga Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), near the U.S. border with Ontario.
Cook County Courthouse (Minnesota) / 47.752417°N 90.339306°W / 47.752417; -90.339306. Cook County Courthouse in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States, was built in 1911 and designed by architects Anton Werner Lignell and Clyde Wetmore Kelly. [2] [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.