5463 W. Broadway, Columbus Township, Ham Lake, Minnesota. County/parish: Anoka.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 09, 1991. NRIS 91000977.
11 contributing buildings. 3 contributing structures.
Carlos Avery Game Farm is a complex of 11 buildings at the Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area in Minnesota, United States, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The buildings are the administrative center for the wildlife management area, which extends across a large part of Anoka and Chisago counties, as well as for a number of other Minnesota Department of Natural Resources properties in the area. The nomination for the NRHP noted that when it opened in 1937, it was one of the largest and best-equipped game farms in the nation, as well as one of the first large-scale wildlife management efforts in Minnesota.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93200030