Good Templars Hall

Infobox_nrhp | name =Good Templars Hall
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nearest_city= 9965 124th Street, Hastings, Minnesota
lat_degrees = 44
lat_minutes = 46
lat_seconds = 11
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 92
long_minutes = 54
long_seconds = 15
long_direction = W
locmapin = Minnesota
area =
built =1858
architect= Unknown
architecture= Greek Revival
added = December 31, 1979
governing_body = Local
refnum=79001234cite 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 Good Templars Hall is a Greek Revival style public building, that was built in 1858 in Nininger in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The Nininger Chapter of the Independent Order of Good Templars, a temperance group built the two-story hall to have a place in which to not drink. When the railroad by-passed Nininger in 1859, the town began to fail, and the building was sold to the school district. In the late 1870s, the first floor was removed due to decay, and the upper floor and roof were lowered to the ground level. The building has been renovated by an historical group and was used as a community centercite book|title=The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota|last=Nord|first=Mary Ann|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|date=2003|isbn=0-87351-448-3] [cite web| title = Historic Sites:Nininger| publisher = Dakota County Historical Society| url = http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/nininger.asp| accessdate =2008-02-27] until it was moved to "Little Log House Pioneer Village" in 2005. A plaque has been erected near its original location.

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