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Photograph of Franklin Hotel
Photograph by Kevin Schuchmann, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Franklin Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Franklin Hotel is a historic building located in Strawberry Point, Iowa, United States. The Franklin Hotel and Land Company was established in 1902 for the purpose of building a modern hotel to serve the community.”

Wikipedia article Franklin Hotel (Strawberry Point, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Clayton County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 102 Elkader St., Strawberry Point, 52076
  • When was it listed? June 1999
  • Category. building
  • Township. Cass township
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture, Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 99000740 - 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

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Franklin Hotel in 2011, burning about 41 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/undetermined2

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
8 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources36281 ST SEBALD RD., STRAWBERRY POINT, IA 52076, I
27 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources37383 ACORN RD., STRAWBERRY POINT, IA 52076, IA

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Franklin Hotel: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Joy Springs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Strawberry Point PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Burrack QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Harold Hartman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Joy Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Maryville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this property

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strawberry Point, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1997: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1997HailStrawberry Point$20,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindStrawberry Point$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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

1 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
Mederville Bridge8.0 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000740 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clayton CountyAll 54 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.