Stephen Harris Taft House

Built in 1864 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Stephen Harris Taft House is a historic house in Humboldt, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article Stephen Harris Taft House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Humboldt County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1864, Victorian architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Taft, Stephen Harris, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 809 First Ave. N, Humboldt, 50548
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. building
City. Humboldt city
When was it built? 1864
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 02001601 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Stephen Harris Taft House: 6 producers, 6 past producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hodges Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Humboldt Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rutland Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Frank Gotch State Park	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Humboldt Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Humboldt Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Peterson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this property

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Humboldt, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2007: 17 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1997	Hail	Humboldt	$100,000	no account filed
March 2007	Flood	Humboldt	$50,000	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Humboldt	$40,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Humboldt	$25,000	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Humboldt	$25,000	no account filed
April 2007	Flood	Humboldt	$10,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Humboldt	$10,000	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Humboldt	$10,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Humboldt	$10,000	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Humboldt	$5,000	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Humboldt	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Humboldt	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Humboldt	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Humboldt	$5,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Humboldt	$4,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Humboldt	$3,000	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Humboldt	$3,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Humboldt	$2,000	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Humboldt	$2,000	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Humboldt	$2,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Humboldt	$1,000	no account filed
August 2004	Tornado (F0)	Humboldt	-	Tornado touched down in open fields north of Humboldt and caused little damage.
May 2006	Hail	Humboldt	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Humboldt	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Humboldt	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Humboldt	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	Humboldt	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Humboldt County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

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
Humboldt Free Public Library	under 500 feet	1983
Humboldt County Court House	0.2 miles	2003
Corydon Brown House	1.5 miles	1978
Berkhimer Bridge	2.1 miles	1998
Des Moines River Bridge	2.1 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001601 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Humboldt County	All 7 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.