Casey, Patrick, House
4th St. SE and 2nd Ave., Aitkin, MNThe Patrick Casey House is a local architectural landmark associated with one of Aitkin's most respected turn-of-the-century business figures. Patrick Casey arrived in Aitkin in 1873 two years after the community's founding. For the next 37 years, he worked for Potter & Co., the region's foremost mercantile establishment, as manager of the firm's branch store in Grand Rapids and, later, as general, manager. In 1903 he became a partner in the reorganized firm Potter-Casey Company. In 1901, while at the peak of his career as an Aitkin businessman, Casey commissioned Aitkin architect and builder N.J. Holden, to design and build a Queen Anne residence. Although Casey died in 1910, the property remained in the family until 1938, when the Benedictine Sisters Benevolent Association acquired the structure for use as a parochial school. The well-preserved house ranks among the few architecturally distinctive residences in northern Minnesota outside of Duluth and the larger Iron Range communities.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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