Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1953.

From the record

“The Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall is an historic building located at 1101 Massachusetts Avenue in St. Cloud had been founded by the Grand Army of the Republic or GAR, as a retirement colony for its members.”
Wikipedia article Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall (St. Cloud, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Osceola County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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. 1101 Massachusetts Ave., St. Cloud, 34769
When was it listed? February 1997
Category. building
Census division. St. Cloud
National Register reference number. 97000097 - 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

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 Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet covering Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall, surveyed 1953

Fires near this property

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 290 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
Debris and open burning	17
Railroad operations and maintenance	17
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
23 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	LIVE OAK GROVE FIRE (49)
11 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 July 2000	Natural	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 July 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	SMALLEY (49)
7 June 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 June 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	CANOE 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.

1953 USGS St Cloud South quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1953 USGS St. Cloud South quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Kissimmee quadrangle1:100000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
St. Cloud Downtown Historic District	under 500 feet	2023
Veterans Memorial Library and Woman's Club of St. Cloud Auditorium	under 500 feet	2020
St. Cloud Depot	0.1 miles	2018
Monument of States	7.9 miles	2015
First United Methodist Church	8.0 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000097 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Osceola County	All 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.