National Register of Historic Places

Gingras House and Trading Post

Walhalla, Pembina County, North Dakota
Listed
May 20, 1975
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
75001305

About this property

The Gingras Trading Post State Historic Site is a North Dakota State Historic Site near Walhalla, North Dakota. It features the trading post and home of the Metis legislator and fur trader Antoine Blanc Gingras (1821–1877). Antoine Gingras was born in 1821 at Red River, the son of Antoine Cuthbert Gingras, a North West Company voyageur and Marguerite Madeleine Trottier. He began his career as a hunter and trapper. Gingras built a two-story exposed-log trading post and a clapboard house on his plot of land in the 1840s. In 1861, the net worth of Gingras was $60,000.00. He soon owned trading posts across the Dakota Territory and parts of Southern Manitoba. In 1851, Gingras was chosen to represent the area in the Minnesota Territorial House of Representatives. He served in the legislature from 1852 to 1853. When Louis Riel (1844–1885) started the 1869 Red River Rebellion, Gingras also participated in the events. When the City of Winnipeg was chartered in 1873, Gingras was present. Gingras died on September 26, 1877, at Walhalla, North Dakota. Gingras Trading Post is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. North Dakota State Historical Society operates the site. It features the original buildings and exhibits about Antoine Blanc Gingras, Metis culture, and the Red River Valley fur trade. It also contains a reproduction of the Gingras Store.

Location

Walhalla, Pembina County, North Dakota
48.93685, -97.89102

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When was Gingras House and Trading Post listed on the National Register?

Gingras House and Trading Post was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 20, 1975.

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Gingras House and Trading Post is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Gingras House and Trading Post is recorded as the industrial era.

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