Robert H. Sunday House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Sunday House is located in Marshalltown, Iowa, United States. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Usonian style, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Robert H. Sunday House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 1988 · 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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Sunday, Robert H., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1701 Woodfield Rd., Marshalltown, 50158
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Iowa Usonian Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1945-1960, MPS
Township. Timber Creek township
Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
National Register reference number. 88002141 - 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

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Robert H. Sunday House in 2011, burning about 39 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	4

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
11 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	2156 LAYFAYETTE AVE, IA
30 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	MM 9, MARSHALLTOWN, IA
7 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	2417 MARSH AVE, IA
28 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1981 WOODBURY ROAD AND COUNTY 9 ROAD, IA

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Robert H. Sunday House: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Unknown	Flagstone	Past Producer
Ash Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Timber Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Ruth Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Slappey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this property

60 of 146 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshalltown, the town this property stands in, in 146 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 55 thunderstorm wind, 41 hail, 24 heavy rain, 14 flood. 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
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$500,000	Extensive damage reported in Marshalltown. Trees over roads, trees on homes, gas leaks, and structural damage.
August 2015	Flood	Marshalltown	$250,000	The Iowa River at Marshalltown crested at 19.98 feet on 31 August 2015 at 8:30 PM CDT.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$200,000	A dugout at a school was destroyed by high winds. Power was out through much of the town.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Marshalltown	$150,000	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Marshalltown	$100,000	Trained spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail ongoing.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$100,000	Emergency manager reported tree on a large propane tank near Liscomb on Oaks Ave, many trees and power lines down in Marshalltown, traffic lights down in Marshalltown, and a barn down.
April 2007	Flood	Marshalltown	$100,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$100,000	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$100,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Marshalltown	$100,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$75,000	no account filed
December 2015	Flood	Marshalltown	$50,000	The Iowa River crested at 20.43 feet on 15 December 2015 at 14:15 UTC.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$50,000	Measured winds on personal weather station. Damage included fences down, trees snapped, and siding ripped from houses.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Marshalltown	$50,000	Many city streets were under water from heavy rain.
March 2007	Flood	Marshalltown	$50,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$50,000	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Marshalltown	$50,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Marshalltown	$50,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$50,000	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Marshalltown	$50,000	no account filed
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$30,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Marshalltown	$30,000	no account filed
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$25,000	Power was knocked out by winds of 65 MPH.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$25,000	no account filed
May 2007	Flood	Marshalltown	$25,000	no account filed
May 2007	Flood	Marshalltown	$25,000	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$25,000	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Marshalltown	$25,000	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Marshalltown	$25,000	no account filed
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$20,000	Public relayed images of tree and power pole damage. Time estimated from radar.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$20,000	Emergency manager reported roof damage to a farmstead and a barn blown down near the Marshalltown airport.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$20,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$20,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$20,000	no account filed
June 1998	Tornado (F1)	Marshalltown	$20,000	no account filed
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$15,000	Many trees down in town, some 3 to 4 feet in diameter.
April 2009	Flash Flood	Marshalltown	$15,000	Water was reported as waist deep on Linn St and Church St in Marshalltown.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$15,000	no account filed
October 2011	Lightning	Marshalltown	$10,000	Lightning struck a school building.
April 2009	Flash Flood	Marshalltown	$10,000	Water over Garwin Rd. near the intersection with Iowa Highway 14.
April 2009	Flash Flood	Marshalltown	$10,000	Water was over the northbound lanes of Iowa Highway 14.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$10,000	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$10,000	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$10,000	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$10,000	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$10,000	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Marshalltown	$10,000	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$10,000	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Marshalltown	$10,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$10,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$5,000	Thunderstorms formed during the middle to late afternoon hours over northwest Iowa. Overall dynamics were weak, however weak moisture advection during the day combined with temperatures warming to around 90 degrees contributed to making the airmass quite unstable. After taking into account the 90 degree temperature and the dew point around the 70 degree mark yielded a CAPE value of over 5000 J-Kg-1 by the late afternoon. The severe storms were confined to a rather narrow area. The first severe weather reported occurred over the far northwest Iowa, where three-quarter inch diameter hail fell at Sibley. The storms drifted southeast and produced hail in Clay County as well. Hail the size of quarters fell southwest of Spencer. Webster County was hard hit with both hail and heavy rainfall. Rain fell at the rate of two to three inches per hour in the Lizard Creek Basin. This caused some minor flooding. Street flooding also occurred in Fort Dodge. No serious flooding occurred however. It was generally urban flooding. Southern Webster County was pelted by hail. In the Harcourt area, dime-size hail accumulated to a depth of two inches. Northwest of Harcourt, golf ball-size hail was reported. Severe crop damage was reported to the corn crop in the area. The storms produced two small tornadoes, although there were several other unconfirmed reports around the central part of the state. One of the tornadoes touched down briefly in Hamilton County south of Webster City. The other was north of Boone, in Boone County. Neither of the tornadoes were on the ground very long and no significant damage was reported. High winds became a problem as the storms moved toward central Iowa. Winds of 60 mph were reported in the city of Boone. High winds took down several large trees in the city of Marshalltown. Most other reports during the afternoon and evening hours were of pea- to marble-size hail and 40 to 45 mph winds. During the evening, a second area of storms that had formed over eastern South Dakota and Minnesota moved into northwest Iowa. Most of them were not severe, though one did drop three-quarter inch diameter west of Le Mars before weakening.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$5,000	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Marshalltown	$5,000	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Marshalltown	$5,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Marshalltown	$5,000	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$5,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$5,000	no account filed
July 2022	Lightning	Marshalltown	$4,000	Firefighters responded to a home struck by lightning, resulting in a fire in the attic.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$3,000	no account filed
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshalltown	$3,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
C. H. Whitehead House	1.6 miles	1979
Leroy R. Willard House	1.6 miles	1976
Marshall County Courthouse	1.7 miles	1972
Marshalltown Downtown Historic District	1.7 miles	2002
Glick-Sower House	1.9 miles	1993
Thaddeus Binford House	1.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002141 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marshall County	All 18 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.