William G. LeDuc House

Infobox_nrhp | name =William G. LeDuc House
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location= Hastings, Minnesota
lat_degrees = 44
lat_minutes = 43
lat_seconds = 44.67
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 92
long_minutes = 51
long_seconds = 6.9
long_direction = W
locmapin = Minnesota
area =
built =1865cite web| title =Historic Sites:Hastings| publisher =Dakota County Historical Society| url =http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/hastings.asp| accessdate =2007-10-12]
architect=based on plans by Andrew Jackson Downing [cite web| title =LeDuc Image Gallery| publisher =Dakota County Historical Society| url =http://www.dakotahistory.org/LeDuc/gallery.asp| accessdate =2007-10-12]
architecture=Gothic Revival
added = June 22, 1970 [cite web|url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/MN/Dakota/state.html|title=National Register of Historic Places|date=2007-10-12|publisher=unofficial site]
governing_body = Local Government
refnum=70000292cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The William G. LeDuc House, located at 1629 Vermillion Street in Hastings, Minnesota is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in over several years, and completed in 1865, by William G. LeDuc who came to Minnesota in 1850 from Ohio. He was an attorney who represented a party to a suit involving Vermillion Falls, convert|1500|ft|m|0 southeast of the homesite. As payment for his services, Le Duc received the land where he built his house. Le Duc was a Civil War veteran and U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture under President Hayes (1877-1881).

The estate is an unusually complete example of the Carpenter Gothic style of Andrew Jackson Downing, a pioneer in American landscape architecture. William and (his wife) Mary LeDuc used Downing’s book, "Cottage Residences", as inspiration for their home (Downing himself had died in 1852). [cite web| title =LeDuc Historic Estate once again welcomes visitors| work =Minnesota History Interpreter| publisher =Minnesota Historical Society| date =June 2006| url =http://www.mnhs.org/about/publications/interpreter/may_june2006.pdf| accessdate =2007-10-12] The home was the first property to be acquired by the Minnesota Historical Society in the late 1950s but sat empty until 2005, when $1.2 million was raised to restore the home and grounds to their former glory. [cite web| last =Laura Adelmann| first =Laura Adelmann| title =Gothic, ëmysteriousí mansion restored, opens| publisher =This Week | date =2005-06-17| url =http://www.thisweek-online.com/2005/june/17leducopens.html| accessdate = 2007-10-12]

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