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One of 121 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Luther A. and Elinore T. Brewer House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 616 10th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, 52401
- When was it listed? December 2024
- Category. building
- City. Cedar Rapids city
- National Register reference number. 100011084 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Luther A. and Elinore T. Brewer House between 1996 and 2014, burning about 39 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 June 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 2014 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 April 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Sac and Fox Agency | MONTOUR |
| 12 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 617 7TH AVE, IOWA |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Luther A. and Elinore T. Brewer House: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Rapids Sand Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Zinger Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lee Crawford Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Otis Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| River Road Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Shaefer Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
60 of 305 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Rapids, the town this property stands in, in 305 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 149 thunderstorm wind, 92 hail, 23 flash flood, 17 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death and 10 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Cedar Rapids | 1 killed, 1 hurt | One teenager drowned and another was injured when they were swept into a large storm sewer during heavy rains. Three 17-year-olds were playing Frisbee near Arthur Elementary School when one of the boys was swept into the storm sewer and another boy went to try rescue him but was also swept in. The first boy drowned but the second boy came out of the sewer drain more than a mile away in Cedar Lake. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | 4 hurt | A severe thunderstorm packing 80 mph winds blew a tarp on top of several people trying to cover the infield at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids. This occurred toward the end of the Cedar Rapids Kernels minor league baseball game. Three people suffered concussions while another person dislocated his shoulder. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | 2 hurt, $500,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew most of the roof off the MidAmerica Housing partnership building in northeast Cedar Rapids. Debris from the roof was blown into other buildings and interior beams were pulled away from the structure. Severe winds also blew two 18-wheel tractor-trailer trucks off Highway 380 near Center Point, causing minor injuries. In addition, at least 20 power lines were downed in the Cedar Rapids area alone. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | 1 hurt | Wind gusts estimated to be 75 mph blew a tree down striking a woman at 625 42nd St. NE in Cedar Rapids, IA at 517 pm June 23. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | 1 hurt | A line of fast moving thunderstorms downed numerous tree limbs and power lines across Cedar Rapids leaving 12,000 customers of Alliant-IES Utilities without power. Wind peeled the outer membrane from a roof of a business allowing water to soak the suspended-ceiling tiles. The waterlogged tiles then gave way damaging portions of the carpet, but missing showcases and merchandise. One man was injured when strong winds lifted then flattened the large beer tent he was in at Hiawatha's Hog Wild Days. |
| July 1997 | Lightning | Cedar Rapids | 1 hurt | Man injured seriously when lightning struck a nearby tree. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $5,000,000 | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $2,000,000 | Far west side of city |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F2) | Cedar Rapids | $2,000,000 | Strong F2...winds estimated at 140 mph. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $1,000,000 | 18 inch limb on house |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $500,000 | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $250,000 | Duration 5 minutes |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $150,000 | Numerous trees down on vehicles and buildings. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $100,000 | 5 inch limbs and power lines down |
| April 2006 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $50,000 | Numerous reports of penny to half dollar size hail. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $50,000 | Golfball sized hail reported by trained storm spotter. Several vehicles had either minor dents or needed extensive body work. Reported by newspaper. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $30,000 | Reported at Mt Mercy College |
| June 2007 | Lightning | Cedar Rapids | $25,000 | Lightning struck and set fire to an apartment building in Cedar Rapids. |
| June 2000 | Lightning | Cedar Rapids | $20,000 | Lightning struck a large pine tree at a residence on the 2400 block of C Avenue NE. The lightning traveled down the tree and into the home, blowing out the water meter and fuse box. Two-thirds of the 100 foot tree, estimated at more than 75 years old, landed on the roof. The home sustained some damage. Tiles were blown off the bathroom wall and the siding was scorched by the lightning. Some appliances also stopped working. One tree limb pierced a hole in and dented the hood of a neighbor's truck. Other branches broke windows in nearby homes. The homeowner was quoted as saying "It sounded like a bomb going off, the tree just literally exploded." No one was hurt. |
| June 2007 | Lightning | Cedar Rapids | $15,000 | Lightning struck a house and ignited a fire in the attic. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $15,000 | Winds estimated to be 70 mph blew a portion of a roof of an industrial building off near the 4000 block of J Street SW in Cedar Rapids, IA. |
| June 1997 | Lightning | Cedar Rapids | $15,000 | Lightning was blamed for starting a fire in an air conditioner unit. This fire quickly spread and gutted a mobile home. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $12,000 | Roof off a veterinarian clinic |
| April 2006 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $10,000 | Multiple reports of nickel to quarter size hail |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $10,000 | Barns damaged with outbuildings destroyed between Cedar Rapids and Ely. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Cedar Rapids | $10,000 | Streets closed due to high water with orange construction barrels floating down the road. Most of the rain fell within a 90 minute time period. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $8,000 | Roof off house on Alice Road. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $8,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Cedar Rapids | $6,000 | Lightning struck a tree limb which fell through the roof of the clubhouse on Ellis Golf Course. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $5,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew down some power lines on 5th street in Cedar Rapids around 1237 pm CDT June 18. This report was relayed by KCRG. The local paper later reported that a garage had also been destroyed by falling trees in Cedar Rapids. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $5,000 | A thunderstorm wind gust estimated to be 75 mph toppled a 4 foot diameter tree on 26th Street Drive SE in Cedar Rapids, IA around 9:40 PM on July 9th. A second tree, about 18 inches in diameter and 60 feet tall, located near F Avenue NE and Estroy Drive NE snapped off about 15 feet above the ground. In addition, a tree branch fell on a car parked on 24th Street NE causing minor damage. Additional tree damage occurred from Cottage Grove Avenue SE to the Cedar Rapids Country Club and just west of First Avenue SE between 20th Street NE and 27th Street NE. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $5,000 | Winds estimated to be 65 mph blew down a tree and some power lines at the intersection of Wilson Ave and 6th Street in Cedar Rapids, IA. Relayed by KCRG TV. Time estimated. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $5,000 | also reported by the fire department; numerous reports of nickel to quarter size hail. The duration at any one location was 2 to 5 minutes. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $5,000 | Numerous trees down in western part of the county |
| May 2004 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $5,000 | Hail ranging from 0.75 to 1 inch |
| July 2003 | Heavy Rain | Cedar Rapids | $5,000 | Interstate 380 and other streets partially flooded in spots |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $4,000 | On I-380 |
| April 2006 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flood | Cedar Rapids | $2,000 | Over three inches of rain falling on saturated ground resulted in flooding at the Indian Creek Nature Center. Flood waters washed out portions of the 7.2 mile Sac and Fox trail, and hundreds of ground nesting birds and animals were drowned in their nests. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Cedar Rapids | $1,000 | Local law enforcement reported Ellis Road west of Edgewood Road was under water and impassable. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $1,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph lofted a sheet of plywood and damaged the Hy-Vee Garden Center on the east side of Cedar Rapids, IA at 1035 pm April 5. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Cedar Rapids | $1,000 | A torrential downpour caused Blairs Ferry Rd and Council Rd to flood. A car stalled in the flood waters. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $1,000 | small to medium branches down near Bowman Park in NE Cedar Rapids; also a large tree reported down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $1,000 | Gusty thunderstorm winds downed trees and knocked out power in sections of Cedar Rapids. The outages affected 1,700 homes. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $500 | Downburst occurred a few miles northeast of KCID but was caught by an IDOT RWIS on U.S. 30 just west of Interstate 380. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Rapids | $250 | Thunderstorm winds snapped a large tree limb. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Cedar Rapids | - | Photo of quarter size hail reported through social media. Time estimated using radar data. |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Best Oil and Refining Company Service Station | 0.1 miles | 2014 |
 | Witwer Grocery Company Building | 0.3 miles | 1998 |
 | C.S.P.S. Hall | 0.3 miles | 1978 |
 | Harper and McIntire Company Warehouse | 0.3 miles | 2015 |
 | Evans Manufacturing Company Building | 0.4 miles | 1999 |
 | Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church | 0.4 miles | 2013 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011084 in Record Group 79. |
| Linn County | All 121 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.
- 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.