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Photograph of St. Cloud Heritage Museum
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Veterans Memorial Library and Woman's Club of St. Cloud Auditorium

Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1953.

From the record

“Cloud Heritage Museum is a history museum in downtown St. It is housed in the Veterans Memorial Library building at 1012 Massachusetts Avenue.”

Wikipedia article St. Cloud Heritage Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Osceola County · listed in 2020 · category: Building · built in 1922, by Ida Annah Ryan, Isabel Roberts.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1012-1014 Massachusetts Ave., St. Cloud, 34769
  • When was it listed? August 2020
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Clubhouses of Florida's Woman's Clubs MPS
  • Census division. St. Cloud
  • When was it built? 1922
  • Architect. Ida Annah Ryan, Isabel Roberts
  • National Register reference number. 100005413 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1953 to 1979

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Veterans Memorial Library and Woman's Club of St. Cloud Auditorium, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet covering Veterans Memorial Library and Woman's Club of St. Cloud Auditorium, surveyed 1953

Fires near this property

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Veterans Memorial Library and Woman's Club of St. Cloud Auditorium between 1992 and 2020, burning about 289 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2020Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLIVE OAK GROVE FIRE (49)
11 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2000Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2012Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSMALLEY (49)
7 June 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 June 2004Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCANOE CREEK ESTATES (06)

Every fire recorded in Osceola County

Maps showing this location

7 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

5 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
St. Cloud Downtown Historic Districtunder 500 feet2023
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hallunder 500 feet1997
St. Cloud Depot0.1 miles2018
Monument of States7.9 miles2015
First United Methodist Church7.9 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100005413 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Osceola CountyAll 11 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.