| Building/ Landmark | Description | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Route to St. Olaf | To reach St. Olaf from Miami a person would need to take a jetliner to Minneapolis, a rickety old plane to St. Gustav, a train to Zumbro Falls, passing Mount Losenbaden and Lake Losenbaden before going trough the Zumbro Falls Tunnel, finally grabbing a shuttle (a horse drawn wagon). This trip is said to take a couple of days. | GG S04/E04 |
| Black Hole | There is a large black hole on Main St in front of the courthouse. Everybody in town would stand around and look into it, or spit and time it. Then there was always that wise guy who’d have a couple of drinks and unzip himself and… | GG S06/E04 |
| Cedars of St. Olaf Hospital | The hospital in St. Olaf where Gunilla Ulf’s daughter worked. | GG S05/E07 |
| Children’s Cheese Museum | A place for kids to learn about cheese, better to learn in a museum than on the streets. | GG S06/E03 |
| Coal Mine | It is likely that St Olaf is home to the coal mine where Uncle Gustav was a coal mimer. Every morning he’d go down the shaft and pretend to work. | GG S04/E11 |
| Corner Drug Store | Owned by Mr Mason. | GG S01/E11 |
| Dairy Farm | Rose grew up on a dairy farm. | GG S02/E05 |
| High School | They weren’t allowed to wear berets in high school. It was against the St. Olaf dress code. | GG S04/E05 |
| Lake Losenbaden | A lake in St. Olaf without a distinct shape. | GG S04/E04 |
| Lake St. Olaf | A lake in St. Olaf. | GG S02/E16 |
| Lars Erikson’s Drugstore and Tackle Shop | Nils Felander worked at Lars Erikson’s Drugstore and Tackle Shop, a St. Olaf location mentioned by Rose. | GG S01/E20 |
| Logenbeuton Avenue | In the game of Gügenspritzer, it is only street in St. Olaf. Owning this street wins the game. | GG S04/E20 |
| Main Street | Rose mentions many events taking place on Main St. This street is so important and prominent in the town’s activies that she once claimed it was the only street in town. | GG S01/E24 |
| Millers Lane | The location where the “Welcome to St. Olaf” sign was supposed to be placed. | GG S04/E02 |
| Minneapolis Turnpike | Back in St. Olaf, when young girls had inappropriate thoughts, they would pave a dirt road outside the church until the thoughts went away. This road is now the Minneapolis Turnpike. | GP E23 |
| Miss Maggie’s House on the Hill | There wasn’t a community organization for females, unless you count Miss Maggie’s House on the Hill. Those girls would stand on their heads for you. | GG S03/E01 |
| Monastery in St. Olaf | A silent order where Brother Martin once lived. Ducks will return there every spring if they remember to put out corn. | GG S06/E02 |
| Mount Losenbaden | Similar to Mount Rushmore, but featuring carved faces of historical U.S. presidential election losers including Alf Landen, Wendell Wilkie, and Adlai Stevenson twice becuse he lost twice. | GG S04/E04 |
| Mount Pushover | St. Olaf’s most romantic outdoor, and sacred, trysting place. | GG S07/E13 |
| Mrs. Olsen Square | The city fathers of St. Olaf unanimously decided that they are going to build a statue to Blanche Devereaux right in the middle of Mrs. Olsen Square. | GG S06/E03 |
| Phone booth | Located in the center of town. | GG S04/E20 |
| Plastic Surgery Office | Rose’s mother, Alma, as well as several other citizens are mentioned as having gotten plastic surgery. | GG S06/E06 |
| Smoked Herring Hoagie House | Owned by Big Sven and Little Sven. | GG S02/E25 |
| Smooch Point | Where Knut took Ilse to play hide the fingerborg. | GG S05/E06 |
| St. Olaf Aquarium | Visiting hours at the St. Olaf Aquarium were “only from 10 to 4”. | GG S03/E14 |
| St. Olaf Auto Shop | A location where Pigpen Johannsen’s photo was displayed until his mishap with the welcome sign. | GG S04/E02 |
| St. Olaf Bank | They built the bank on marshland, and it sank. All that was left were a few deposit slips and a pen with a chain attached to it, floating in the muck. | GG S04/E20 |
| St. Olaf Community Playhouse | Hey, That’s My Tractor is a play originating from the St. Olaf Community Playhouse, noted for its local fame and humor. | GG S02/E06 |
| St. Olaf County Jail and Deli | The St. Olaf County Jail as also functions as a deli. The jail’s design includes wedges of cheese hanging overhead, tantalizingly just out of reach. | GG S06/E24 |
| St. Olaf Courthouse | Located on Main Street on the other side of Main St from the gigantic black hole. | GG S06/E04 |
| St. Olaf Haberdashery | Owned by Rose’s Uncle Gerkinflunken. Known for the slogan, “You don’t have to be Amish to look Amish.” | GG S05/E15 |
| St. Olaf Hotel | A hotel in that has dumbwaiters instead of room service, leading to a comedic misunderstanding. | GP E11 |
| St. Olaf Motorcoach Company | A vehicle manufacturer owned by Fritz Fenderhooven. The company created the Fenderhooven Rocket. The rocket had eight wheels due to Fritz’s double vision and ran on cow manure. However, the car never got off the ground due to poor marketing — a lot of people were turned off by the ad, which was a cow sitting on the gas tank reading The Farmer’s Almanac. | GG S04/E08 |
| St. Olaf Orphanage | The orphanage where Rose spent the first eight years of her life. | GG S04/E17 |
| St. Olaf Pet Shop | Where Rose learned a life lesson about handling birds, and she was banned from touching birds after squeezing one too hard. | GG S06/E17 |
| St. Olaf Theater | Designed for silent films that was never updated to include a sound system, requiring Miss Sigerson to interpret films for the audience. | GG S04/E13 |
| St. Olaf’s Great Shepherd Church | Rose mentions her wedding took place at St. Olaf’s Great Shepherd Church. She recalls the beauty of the ceremony, including balloons that dropped later. | GG S05/E23 |
| Texaco Star | The “Texaco star” from a service station was sometimes used as a landmark or guide. | GG S02/E16 |
| The Chapped Hands People | Insurance company. In case of an accident, there are certain rules to follow. Rule number one, check to see if any livestock was damaged. Next is performing CPR. Then notify the police. Rule four, don’t admit the accident is your fault. | EN S02/E06 |
| Tuttles | A shop in where Rose would have gone to buy a tie for her late husband Charlie’s birthday. | GG S02/E25 |
| Uncle Hingeblotter’s Farm | The farm where Baby the pig grew up before he was sent to live with Rose. | GG S03/E03 |
| Welcome to St. Olaf Sign | A sign that was not erected in time for Founder’s Day one year, but was hopfully erected on Millers Lane at a later date. | GG S04/E02 |
| Zumbro Falls Tunnel | It is beleived that people have vanished off the earth when they go through that tunnel. | GG S04/E04 |
| St. Gustav, Sister City of St. Olaf | Known as “the city that never naps,”, they even had their own photomat. At one point Rose states that you can only get there by toboggan, traveling in the summer is rough on the “old heinie”. Rose later states that people wanting to visit St. Olaf must fly to St. Gustav and take additional transportation to reach St. Olaf. | GG S05/E21, S03/E12, S04/E04 |
| St. Gustav University | St. Gustave University offers students the opportunity to study Latin. | GG S04/E07 |
GG – Golden Girls / GP – Golden Palace / EN – Empty Nest / N – Nurses
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