Sibley House Historic Site

Visit some of Minnesota's oldest buildings and explore the early 1800s, when Mendota was a major center of the region's fur trade. Among the buildings is the home of Henry Hastings Sibley, successful fur trader and first governor of Minnesota.

Visitors are allowed a glimpse of the prosperous Minnesota fur trading industry by visiting this historic site. Henry Sibley, a regional manager for the American Fur Company and later Minnesota's first governor, built one of two limestone houses on the site in the mid-1830s. Jean Faribault, who had a trading post in the area, built the other limestone house to replace his original log house a...