Husung Hardware

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Husung Hardware is a building that was constructed in 1936 in Alamosa, Colorado with a terracotta facade and stylized ornamentation. The two-story brick building possesses the distinctive characteristics of Art Deco, a style not well represented in Alamosa County or in other small towns across the state.”
Wikipedia article Husung Hardware, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Alamosa County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 625 Main St., Alamosa, 81101
When was it listed? January 2000
Category. building
Census division. Alamosa
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
National Register reference number. 00000003 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Husung Hardware between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	84
Recreation and ceremony	46
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Debris and open burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	ALAMOSA
30 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Denver County	not named
29 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	CSFS-Alamosa District	not named
28 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Denver County	not named
20 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	ALAMOSA
20 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
20 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Alamosa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Husung Hardware: 12 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Alamosa Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Alamosa County

Storms near this property

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alamosa, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 7 tornado, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1996	Lightning	Alamosa	1 hurt	no account filed
August 1993	Hail	Alamosa	$500,000	Marble-size hail caused an estimated $75,000 damage to nine aircraft at the Alamosa Airport. In addition, the hail damaged vehicles in the airport parking lot, as well as destroying barley fields southwest of Alamosa.
September 1997	Lightning	Alamosa	$40,000	Lightning struck a mobile home, setting it on fire. It was totally destroyed.
March 1995	Tornado (F1)	Alamosa	$11,000	A tornado briefly touched down on a farm two miles south of Alamosa in Alamosa County. A large tractor shed had been detached from its concrete foundation. Windshilds of vehicles and fences had been damaged as well. The land owners who witnessed the tornado estimated it to be about 20 feet wide and on the ground for about a 0.1 miles.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Alamosa	-	Convective wind gust of 66 mph was measured at KALS observation station.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Alamosa	-	Alamosa airport.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Alamosa	-	Alamosa airport.
June 2006	Tornado (F0)	Alamosa	-	Tornado caused no known damage over open country. This tornado moved from Alamosa County to Costilla County.
July 2006	Tornado (F0)	Alamosa	-	A weak, short-lived tornado caused no known damage.
July 2004	Tornado (F0)	Alamosa	-	A brief lived tornado caused no known damage.
August 2003	Tornado (F0)	Alamosa	-	A NWS employee observed two non-mesocyclone tornados (landspouts) under a towering cumulus cloud...which caused no known damage.
June 1995	Tornado (F0)	Alamosa	-	A very brief tornado touched down on open land.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Alamosa	-	no account filed
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Alamosa	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Alamosa	-	no account filed
August 2003	Lightning	Alamosa	-	no account filed
April 2000	Wildfire	Alamosa	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Alamosa	-	no account filed
May 1998	Tornado (F0)	Alamosa	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Alamosa	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Alamosa	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Alamosa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alamosa County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
American National Bank Building	under 500 feet	1999
First Baptist Church	under 500 feet	2005
St. Thomas Episcopal Church	under 500 feet	2003
Alamosa County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1995
Alamosa Post Office	under 500 feet	2009
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Depot	0.1 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000003 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alamosa County	All 16 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.