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Sauk Centre is located along Interstate 94/U.S. Highway 52, U.S. Highway 71, and Minnesota State Highway 28. It is approximately 100 miles (160 km) northwest of the Minneapolis/Saint Paul metropolitan area. The city is considered to be in the middle of the state. Sauk Lake and Sauk River are the most notable water features of the area.
Sauk Centre Township is a township in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,088 at the 2010 census. The population was 1,088 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ]
The Original Main Street Historic District stretches for ten blocks along Main Street in downtown Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States.It is considered the inspiration for the 1920 novel Main Street by locally born author Sinclair Lewis, which in turn inspired the concept of "Main Street" as a symbol of American small towns. [2]
The Palmer House is a three-story brick building on the northwest corner of Sauk Centre's principal intersection. Round-arched windows and doors line the ground floor of the two street-facing elevations, accentuated by decorative brickwork. The arched windows that open into the lobby and restaurant contain stained glass imported from Vienna ...
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. [3]
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was a reformatory in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States. It was Minnesota's first single-sex reformatory for girls from its establishment in 1911 to 1967, when it switched to a coeducational model and shortened its name to the Minnesota Home School. The facility closed in 1999. [2]
Le Sauk Township is a township in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,766 at the 2010 census. [3] Le Sauk Township was organized in 1860. [4] The township contains one property listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the 1884 Francis Arnold House. [5]
Sauk Centre is the name of the two following places, both of which are found in the United States: Sauk Centre, Minnesota Sauk Centre Township, Stearns County, Minnesota