Built in 1904 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“The Gaylord Thompson House, in Lewiston, Idaho, was built in 1904. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Gaylord Thompson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Nez Perce County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1904, Colonial Revival architecture, by James H. Nave.
National Register reference number.92000419- 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
7 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Gaylord Thompson House
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 18 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
3
Recreation and ceremony
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Other causes
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
21 workings within 5 miles of Gaylord Thompson House: 11 past producers, 9 producers, 1 occurrence.
9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lewiston, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 3 heavy rain, 3 funnel cloud.
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.
Flash flooding impacted several streets and avenues of Lewiston. It stalled vehicles and caused debris build up in the area. A local emergency was declared from damages sustained during the event. Half an inch of rain fell in 15 minutes from 1330LST to 1345LST.
an inch of rain in 30 minutes caused several streets to flood in downtown Lewiston. a couple of basements were flooded as up to a foot of water flowed in the streets.
Heavy rain in and around Lewiston created numerous urban flooding problems during the morning of July 18th. A retention pond overflowed and caused a hillside washout with another hillside also suffering erosion damage. A number of roads and parking lots were flooded in the city and a block of apartments in low laying poor drainage areas suffered first floor and yard flooding.
Over three quarters of an inch caused local flooding around the city of Lewiston. Flooding occurred on the interstate bridge, closing it for two hours. Several roads were covered by up to 2 feet of water.
Rainfall amounts of up to 0.87" caused local flooding around the city of Lewiston, especially in parking lots and city streets. The heavy rain also caused several mudslides which closed roads. A lighting strike set a power pole on fire.
A Canadian cold front moved across south central Idaho during the early evening hours of the 12th of August. A severe thunderstorm brought high wind gusts to the town of Lewiston and downed a few trees and caused damage to a few roofs. Damage estimates were on the order of twenty thousand dollars.
Weak thunderstorms passing through the area in the wake of two supercell thunderstorms brought strong winds along the Snake River Valley and Lewiston, Clarkston Area. Several small trees were blown down in Clarkston taking down power lines and damaging a residential fence. The storm also brought down scattered trees and limbs across Lewiston causing power outages and minor damage.
Public reported retaining walls washed out in port district of Lewiston, WA. The result was rocks, mud, and debris covering roadway. The report was through Facebook.
A Facebook post from the public noted that a retaining wall washed out along Nez Perce Drive which caused mud and rocks to spill out onto the roadway in Lewiston, WA.
Trained Spotter measured thirty-two hundreths of rain in span of ten minutes under a heavy thunderstorm. Lightning hit and exploded a nearby telephone pole. Spotter was located two miles east of Lewiston.
A Facebook post from the public noted that water up to 6 inches deep pooled in the parking lot of the Red Lion Hotel in Lewiston, Idaho due to the heavy rain from thunderstorms.
A cold core funnel was spotted near Lewiston Hill by several public sources. The location was estimated based on reports and pictures. It did not impact people or property.
A local newspaper reported a tree blown down in Lewiston due to a thunderstorm wind gust. No damage was reported. Time estimated from radar data. The local utility company reported 2400 customers without power in the Lewiston and Clarkston area as a result of thunderstorm winds bringing down power lines.
The Wheatland Fire Station near Lewiston measured a wind gust of 66 mph with estimated 50 mph sustained winds for a brief period. Scattered power outages were noted around Nez Perce County by the Emergency Manager.
The Shirrod Hill Mesonet station reported a wind gust of 62 mph as a thunderstorm gust front passed through the area. The ASOS station at the Lewiston Airport reported a wind gust of 56 mph.
A CWOP mesonet site in Lewiston recorded 0.51 in twenty minutes. The intense rainfall overwhelmed the city's infrastructure leading to urban flooding and closed streets. Among the closures were G Street, Adams Lane, and Idaho Street. Nearly a foot of water was observed on sections of the blue bridge. The water receded within an hour and no injuries or damage was reported in this event.
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.
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.
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