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Photograph of Golden Gate Building
Photograph by Stephen B Calvert Clariosophic, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Golden Gate Building

Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1948.

From the record

“The Golden Gate Building, built in 1925, is an historic real estate and land development office building located on State Road A1A at 3225 South East Dixie Highway in the unincorporated community of Golden Gate south of Stuart in Martin County, Florida. It was built by the Golden Gate Development Company to serve as the sales office for its 200 block subdivision called Golden Gate. which was a re-subdivision of a part of the 1911 subdivision called Port Sewall.”

Wikipedia article Golden Gate Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Martin County · listed in 2017 · category: Building · built in 1925.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 3225 SE. Dixie Hwy., Stuart, 34997
  • When was it listed? October 2017
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Port Salerno-Hobe Sound
  • When was it built? 1925
  • National Register reference number. 100001736 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1948 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Golden Gate Building, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet covering Golden Gate Building, surveyed 1948

Fires near this property

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Golden Gate Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,046 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 20 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
Natural32
Misuse of fire by a minor30
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning4
Fireworks3
Smoking3

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceST ANDREWS (43)
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2012Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEVANS RD. (43)
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDIAN STREET BRIDGE (43)
27 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA) MEADOWS (509)
7 August 2010Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA) STUCK IN THE MUD (452)
6 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA)-LAKEBOTTOM-1257

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Storms near this property

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stuart, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997LightningStuart1 hurtLightning struck a boater near Stuart in the Indian River Lagoon. He was knocked unconscious and fell into the water. He was pulled back on the boat and revived by his wife.
August 2001Flash FloodStuart$1,500,000Rains associated with distant Tropical Storm Barry in the Gulf of Mexico produced flooding across much of Martin County. About 13 inches of rain fell in the area between midnight and late morning on August 2nd. The most serious flooding occurred in Stuart, Port Salerno and Palm City. Over 300 homes received some water damage. Major damage was reported in 63 homes and 6 mobile homes.
April 1993Tornado (F0)Stuart$50,000A small tornado briefly touched down at the intersection of Dixie Highway and Indian Street in Stuart damaging the roof of a U-Haul rental building, moving a U-Haul trailer 200 yards, and blew around signs and garbage cans.
August 2006Tornado (F0)Stuart$20,000An F0 tornado briefly touched down in the Rocky Point area near Stuart damaging solar panels and roofs.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindStuart$2,000Thunderstorm winds damaged a carport, fence and metal shed, and blew down large tree limbs near Stuart.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindStuart$1,000A member of the public reported a medium-sized tree had fallen over onto a shed in Stuart, one mile west-northwest of Stuart Witham Airport.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindStuart$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines and broke windows in Stuart.
October 2020Heavy RainStuart-CoCoRaHS, mesonet and Cooperative observer reports, along with reports from SKYWARN spotters and Emergency Management officials indicated that rainfall totals reached ten to over twenty inches between the early morning hours of October 1 and the early evening of October 4. Observations over twelve inches were received from seven recording stations within Hobe Sound and Stuart (highest value was from a Weather Underground mesonet site in Stuart; 20.63 inches).
May 2013HailStuart-A spotter observed nickel sized hail in Stuart.
March 2008HailStuart-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail south of Stuart.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindStuart-Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees 10 miles west of Stuart. A home weather station recorded a wind gust to 61 mph.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindStuart-Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in the Stuart area.
November 1998Flash FloodStuart-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Mitch produced some flooding in eastern Martin County. Many roadways were covered with 10 inches of water and four houses flooded.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindStuart-A Skywarn spotter measured winds of 51 knots in Stuart.
March 2003HailStuart-no account filed
May 2000HailStuart-no account filed
May 2000HailStuart-no account filed
August 1999WaterspoutStuart-no account filed
April 1999HailStuart-no account filed
July 1997HailStuart-no account filed
January 1997WaterspoutStuart-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindStuart-no account filed
May 1996Funnel CloudStuart-no account filed
May 1996Funnel CloudStuart-no account filed
May 1996HailStuart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Martin County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Burn Brae Plantation-Krueger House2.3 miles2002
Martin County Court House, Old2.9 miles1997
Lyric Theatre3.2 miles1993
House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar4.0 miles1974
Stuart Welcome Arch4.2 miles2004
Mount Elizabeth Archeological Site4.3 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100001736 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Martin CountyAll 14 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.
  • 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.