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Photograph of St. Anthony School
Photograph by Dtobias, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Anthony School

Built in 1926. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Broward County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1926.

Sources: 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 820 NE. 3rd St., Fort Lauderdale, 33301
  • When was it listed? September 1997
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Fort Lauderdale
  • When was it built? 1926
  • National Register reference number. 97001171 - 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

1949 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering St. Anthony School, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering St. Anthony School, surveyed 1949

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of St. Anthony School: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pegram MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Powerline PitSilicaPast Producer
Bates ProjectStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Decker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Deem PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gateway QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Broward County

Storms near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Lauderdale, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1993: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 1993Tornado (F1)Fort Lauderdale2 hurt, $500,000A small tornado hop-scotched along a 3-mile path in Fort Lauderdale causing extensive roof damage and broken windows to approximately 8 homes and an apartment complex. Several cars were damaged or destroyed by flying debris or falling trees. About one-third of the surface of the roof of a Broward County Public Library was ripped off. Windows in a nearby shopping center were blown out. Two minor injuries from flying glass were reported.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFort Lauderdale$500,000Strong downburst wind gusts to 69 mph struck Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport flipping one small plane and damaging several hangers.

Every storm recorded in Broward 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
Alfred and Olive Thorpe Lustron House0.2 miles2007
Stranahan House0.5 miles1973
Fort Lauderdale Woman's Club0.6 miles2019
Bryan Building0.7 miles1997
New River Inn0.8 miles1972
Williams House1.1 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001171 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broward CountyAll 39 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.
  • 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.