Martello Gallery-Key West Art and Historical Museum
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.
From the record
“The Fort East Martello Museum & Gardens, is a historic site located at 3501 South Roosevelt Boulevard, Key West, Florida, United States. On June 19, 1972, it was added to the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Martello Gallery-Key West Art and Historical Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.72000341- 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.
Then and now
1921 to 1989
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19211989
Fires near this property
1 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Martello Gallery-Key West Art and Historical Museum
in 2006, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Martello Gallery-Key West Art and Historical Museum: 2 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Key West, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1993 and 2005: 22 waterspout, 11 funnel cloud, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado.
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.
Funnel cloud moved onshore and lowered resulting in a F0 tornado. The tornado moved along 10th ST between North Roosevelt Ave and Flagler Ave. Tree were toppled...roofs and awnings were damaged...powerlines were downed and a shack was tipped over.
Tree limbs 8 to 10 inches in diameter felled, along with damage to wood commercial signs in western portions of Old Town Key West, and a city lamp post near Whitehead and Front Streets.
Marine reported 4 boats broke anchorages in waters between Christmas Tree Island and Fleming Key and driven ashore. Estimated wind gusts to 50 knots (58 mph).
Waterspout moved ashore and crossed Key Haven Road in Key Haven section of Key West. Palm fronds were broken off palm trees, but there was no damage to structures or boats.
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.
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.
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.
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