Sauk Centre (pop. 3,900) was incorporated as a village in 1876. It is the home of Sinclair Lewis, a world-famous novelist and America's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the late 1870s, the town became the meeting terminal for the Northern Pacific and Great Northern rail lines.
The Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home in Sauk Centre is the restored childhood residence of America's first winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Parlor furniture, the rustic cookstove and Sinclair's father and town doctor, Red Lewis' roll top desk are on display.
The Sinclair Lewis Interpretive Center houses a museum that displays memorabilia belonging to the famous writer, Sinclair Lewis. Items on display include photos and brief history of Sauk Centre, Sinclair's writing desk, Lewis' diplomas from Sauk Centre High School and Yale, copy of a magazine featuring a story by Lewis titled "Green Eyes: A Handbook of Jealousy", death certificate from Rome where he died, a metal urn with his remains and his Nobel Prize.
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