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The Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States.From 1889 until 1902 it was the home of young Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), who would become the most famous American novelist of the 1920s and the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. [3]
Sauk Centre (/ s ɔː k / SAWK) [7] is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 4,555 at the 2020 census. [4] Sauk Centre is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area. Sauk Centre is the birthplace of Sinclair Lewis, a novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Palmer House is a historic hotel in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1901 and expanded in 1916. [ 2 ] The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for having local significance in the themes of commerce and social history. [ 3 ]
Sauk Centre: 10-block district considered the inspiration for Sinclair Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street and the concept of "Main Street" as a symbol of American small towns. [35] Comprises 74 contributing properties. [36] 27: John Oster House: John Oster House
The Original Main Street Historic District stretches for ten blocks along Main Street in downtown Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States.It is considered the inspiration for the 1920 novel Main Street by locally born author Sinclair Lewis, which in turn inspired the concept of "Main Street" as a symbol of American small towns. [2]
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."
Feb. 8—A man convicted of felony first degree DWI for refusing to submit to a breath test was sentenced Thursday to three and a half years in prison. David Carroll King, 63, of Sauk Centre ...
F.W. Lewis House, Midland, Michigan, listed on the NRHP in Midland County; E. H. Lewis House, Chaska, Minnesota, listed on the NRHP in Carver County; Lewis House and Medical Office, Henning, Minnesota, listed on the NRHP in Otter Tail County; Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, listed on the NRHP in Stearns County