Cottage at Rock and Dubuque Streets

Built in 1870 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Cottage at Rock and Dubuque Streets is a historic building located in Solon, Iowa, United States. It is a good example of applying elements of the Queen Anne style to a small-scale residence.”
Wikipedia article Cottage at Rock and Dubuque Streets, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 96 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1870, Queen Anne style.

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.
Address. Rte. 4, Box 3, Solon, 52333
When was it listed? January 1985
Category. building
Township. Big Grove township
When was it built? 1870
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 85000004 - 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.

Fires near this property

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Cottage at Rock and Dubuque Streets between 2006 and 2018, burning about 105 acres in total. None 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	17
Debris and open burning	8
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 June 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 June 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 May 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 May 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 March 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

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 Cottage at Rock and Dubuque Streets: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Stahle Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Vanourney Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Meyer Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

25 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Solon, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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
August 2009	Flash Flood	Solon	$100,000	Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding in Solon, IA along Mill Creek during the evening of August 27.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Solon	$50,000	Power lines down Solon to North Liberty
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Solon	$10,000	Winds estimated to be 60 mph broke the grain transport equipment off the top of some grain bins located along Jordan Creek Rd NE just south of Solon, IA around 11:47 pm.
April 2006	Hail	Solon	$3,000	Third round of hail
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Solon	$1,000	Winds estimated to be 60 mph lifted a front porch awning up and over a house along Quincy Rd NE just southwest of Solon, IA around 11:46 pm. The house also sustained damage to the roof including missing shingles and nearby trees were also damaged.
June 2007	Lightning	Solon	$200	A tree was struck by lightning splitting it in half.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Solon	-	Tree limb snapped off, damaging a deck on a house.
May 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Solon	-	Report of damage to trees and power powers consistent with rotating mesocyclone on radar just south of Solon. Rated EF-0 with max winds around 85 mph. No injuries reported.
June 2024	Hail	Solon	-	Time estimated by radar.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Solon	-	Tree branches larger than 2 inches in diameter were blown down.
March 2023	Tornado (EF2)	Solon	-	Another tornado developed just northwest of Solon and moved northeast, destroying and snapping several trees and a small portion of a shed roof. A farmstead north of Solon lost 2 large outbuildings and grain silos. Power poles were also snapped in a field. As the tornado neared the Johnson-Linn county line, many trees were snapped or uprooted, with a few rolling through the part of the adjacent field. A house sustained minor shingle damage and broken windows. The tornado crossed into Linn County about a quarter of a mile north of the intersection of 110th St. NE and Taft Ave. NE. The tornado was rated EF2 in Johnson County with maximum winds around 130 mph.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Solon	-	Tree blown down on the southwest side of Solon.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Solon	-	Flag pole that was cemented into the ground blown over .
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Solon	-	A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm winds of 60 mph.
May 2011	Hail	Solon	-	Ping pong ball sized hail fell near Sutiff, IA at 423 pm CDT May 22.
April 2010	Hail	Solon	-	Quarter sized hail fell in Solon, IA at 557 pm April 5.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Solon	-	Water flowed over 140th Street near Hoosier Creek about one half mile west of Ely Rd.
October 2007	Hail	Solon	-	The public reported nickel size hail in Solon. Report relayed by KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Solon	-	The public reported tree limbs of unknown diameter blown down in Solon. Report relayed by KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids.
April 2006	Hail	Solon	-	dime size hail; pea size hail at 1914 CST
May 2006	Funnel Cloud	Solon	-	Observed by both Morse and West Branch Iowa fire departments; funnel passed between Solon and Morse.
May 2004	Hail	Solon	-	Covered the ground
June 2024	Hail	Solon	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Solon	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Solon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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

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
Stone Academy	2.1 miles	2001
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church	3.2 miles	1997
Buresh Farm	3.5 miles	1977
Henyon-Kasper-Duffy Barn	4.3 miles	2004
State Quarry, Old	5.1 miles	1998
H. A. White General Store and House	6.4 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000004 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson County	All 96 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.