Oldest Building in North Dakota.

Oldest Building In North Dakota

Part of our "Who Cares?" Tour (which, frankly, we don't have the willpower to finish writing).

It's a perfectly preserved, hand-hewn log cabin, built in 1843, today surrounded by wheat fields. The "oldest standing structure built by Euro-Americans in North Dakota," according to a bronze plaque bolted to a nearby rock.

The state actually pays someone to sit out here, all day, in this isolated house, waiting for visitors. Make that person's day -- or week. Stop by.

Oldest Building In North Dakota

Gingras Trading Post

Address:: 105th St. NE, Walhalla, ND
Directions:: Gingras Trading Post. Northeast of town on Hwy 32, then one mile down a gravel road just south of the Walhalla airpark.

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World's Tallest Painting on an Easel, Altona, MB, Canada - 20 mi.

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Odalen Cross - Where Church Burned, Edinburg, ND - 31 mi.

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October 21, 2019