Hogan and Martha A. Runkle Queen House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Runkle Queen House is a historic residence located southeast of Earlham, Iowa, United States. Hogan Queen settled in Madison County in 1853.”
Wikipedia article Hogan and Martha A. Runkle Queen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 55 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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. Queen, Hogan and Martha A. Runkle, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5 mi. W of St. Charles on CR G50, St. Charles, 50240
When was it listed? September 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Legacy in Stone: The Settlement Era of Madison County, Iowa TR
Township. South township
National Register reference number. 87001667 - 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hogan and Martha A. Runkle Queen House: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Gardner Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ninety-Two Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Peru Myers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Winterset Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Winterset Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Madison 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
John S. and Elizabeth Beem Holmes Barn	3.2 miles	1987
Holliwell Covered Bridge	3.5 miles	1976
William Ogburn House	3.7 miles	1987
Henry and Elizabeth Adkinson Evans House	5.0 miles	1987
Miles and Elizabeth Smith Kellogg House	5.1 miles	2017
Imes Covered Bridge	5.2 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001667 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 55 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.