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William Manatt House

Built in 1869 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The William Manatt House, also known as the Brooklyn Historical Museum, is a historic dwelling located in Brooklyn, Iowa, United States. It is associated with the settlement of the town.”

Wikipedia article William Manatt House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Poweshiek County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1869, Italianate 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. Manatt, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 304 Jackson St., Brooklyn, 52211
  • When was it listed? October 1997
  • Category. building
  • Township. Bear Creek township
  • When was it built? 1869
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture, Queen Anne style
  • National Register reference number. 97001288 - 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of William Manatt House in 2011, burning about 3 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/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources400TH ST. AND HWY 21, IA

Every fire recorded in Poweshiek County

Storms near this property

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooklyn, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 24 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 5 heavy rain, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$150,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$75,000Many trees and tree limbs down across the city. Some trees on roofs.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$75,000no account filed
July 2010Flash FloodBrooklyn$50,000Three feet of standing water was observed in yards, with 2.5 feet of flowing water in another yard along the side of a shed. Ten inches of flowing water was flowing down the alley. Three and one half inches of rain fell in a short time.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$50,000no account filed
April 2002HailBrooklyn$40,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$25,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$20,000Many branches were downed. A gazebo was blown apart and debris strewn along a southwest to northeast path for about 75 feet. Some debris embedded 4 to 6 inches into the ground.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$15,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$10,000Measured at the Brooklyn Schoolnet site.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$10,000Tree damage was reported with winds estimated near 75 MPH.
April 2003HailBrooklyn$10,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
May 2011HailBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
May 2011HailBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
March 2005HailBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
November 2000Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$3,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$3,000no account filed
July 2001HailBrooklyn$3,000no account filed
July 2000HailBrooklyn$3,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$1,000Winds of 60 MPH blew down small branches.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$1,000Measured at the Brooklyn Schoolnet site.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$1,000no account filed
September 2000HailBrooklyn$1,000no account filed
August 2021Funnel CloudBrooklyn-Public report of funnel cloud spotted along Interstate 80 looking south.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-Law enforcement reported damage to power lines in the area.
May 2018Heavy RainBrooklyn-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.08 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-Emergency manager reported estimated 60 to 65 mph winds at Brooklyn exit on I-80.
April 2013Heavy RainBrooklyn-Rainfall 1.26 inches.
April 2013Heavy RainBrooklyn-Rainfall of 3.32 inches in the past 24 hours.
June 2009Heavy RainBrooklyn-Water was briefly onto Highway F29 from a farm field. Water was shallow, of hydroplane depth.
August 2009Heavy RainBrooklyn-Rainfall amount of 3.19 inches was reported.
May 2011HailBrooklyn-no account filed
April 2010HailBrooklyn-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-no account filed
April 2003HailBrooklyn-no account filed
July 2000HailBrooklyn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Poweshiek 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

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Brooklyn Opera House-Broadway Theatre0.1 miles2021
Brooklyn Hotel0.2 miles1979
Kent Union Chapel and Cemetery5.4 miles2009
P. P. Raymond House5.9 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001288 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Poweshiek CountyAll 26 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.
  • 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.