Co. Hwy. 3, Scandia, Minnesota. County/parish: Washington.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 17, 1976. NRIS 76001078.
1 contributing building.
The Johannes Erickson House is a historic log cabin in Scandia, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1868 with a gambrel roof, a distinctive tradition from southern Sweden. It was moved to its current site adjacent to the Hay Lake School in 1974 to be part of a small museum complex operated by the Washington County Historical Society. The Erickson House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 for its local significance in the themes of architecture and exploration/settlement. It was nominated as a rare surviving example of a style brought to Minnesota by Swedish immigrants from Dalsland and Småland.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93201130