National Register Listing

Gingras House and Trading Post

a.k.a. Gingras Historic Site

NE of Walhalla off ND 32, Walhalla, ND
Local significance of the building:
Commerce; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
About National Register Listings

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.

North Dakota was once home to a massive inland sea, known as the Western Interior Seaway, which covered much of the state during the Late Cretaceous period around 80 million years ago. Fossils from marine creatures that lived in this sea can still be found in the state today.