Lewis House

Built in 1954 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1940.

From the record

“The Lewis House, also known as Lewis Spring House, is a historic home at 3117 Okeeheepkee Road in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. Built in 1954, it is one of a small number of hemicycles designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright during his lifetime.”
Wikipedia article Lewis House (Tallahassee, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Leon County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1954, modern architecture, by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Tallahassee at 3117 Okeeheepkee Rd., Tallahassee vicintiy, 32303
When was it listed? February 1979
Category. building
Census division. Northwest Leon
When was it built? 1954
Architectural style. modern architecture
Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
National Register reference number. 79000679 - 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

1940 to 1999

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Lewis House, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet covering Lewis House, surveyed 1940

Fires near this property

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Lewis House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Florida Forest Service	(37) OCHLOCKONEE ROBERT FIRE
13 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	HWY 90 (37)
6 July 2006	Natural	8.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(37) MILLERS LANDING FIRE
3 July 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
15 July 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 June 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	HWY 27 (37)
5 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 May 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Leon County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1940 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1979 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1999 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:24000

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
Lichgate on High Road	2.1 miles	2006
Blackwood-Harwood Plantations Cemetery	2.2 miles	1999
Greenwood Cemetery	2.3 miles	2003
San Luis de Apalache	2.7 miles	1966
Covington House	3.0 miles	1989
Woman's Club of Tallahassee	3.0 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000679 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Leon County	All 72 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.