Rose Hotel

Built in 1813 (Georgian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Rose Hotel is a historic site owned by the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located in Elizabethtown, Illinois, on the banks of the Ohio River.”
Wikipedia article Rose Hotel (Elizabethtown, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1813, Georgian architecture.

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. S. Main St., Elizabethtown, 62931
When was it listed? December 1972
Category. building
Precinct. McFarlan precinct
When was it built? 1813
Architectural style. Georgian architecture
National Register reference number. 72000461 - 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

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Rose Hotel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 289 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
5 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	POUNDS HOLLOW #76
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	BARREL
17 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	PICNIC
27 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	TOWER ROCK
6 April 1995	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Shawnee National Forest	ROGERTOWN
3 April 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	HAYBALE
16 April 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	HUBIE
15 April 1995	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Shawnee National Forest	ROGERTOWN II

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 85 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 85 workings within 5 miles of Rose Hotel: 68 past producers, 8 prospects, 6 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc. 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	Recorded
Hardin City Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Hillside	Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1917, 1926
Illinois - Kentucky Fluorite District	Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Cadmium	Past Producer	Fluorspar, Sphalerite, Galena
Knight Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Underground
Knight Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	1970, 1973
Knight Shop & Hms Plant	Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Rosiclare Fluorspar - Lead - Zinc District	Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Quartz, Iron, Barium-Barite, Calcium	Past Producer	1839, 1870
Rosiclare Manganese Mill	Manganese	Producer
Alco-Palmer Lead Mine	Lead	Past Producer
Alco-Palmer Lead Mine	Lead	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this property

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elizabethtown, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 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
March 1997	Flash Flood	Elizabethtown	$30,000	no account filed
November 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizabethtown	$10,000	Numerous trees were blown down. One of the trees was down at the housing authority in Elizabethtown.
May 2009	Hail	Elizabethtown	$5,000	Large hail lasted about four minutes. The hail was accompanied by strong winds. Some cars were dented.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizabethtown	$4,000	Signs were damaged by wind.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizabethtown	$3,000	Trees were down.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizabethtown	$1,000	Straight-line thunderstorm winds blew a tree down onto Bassett School Rd.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Elizabethtown	-	Portions of one state road and several city streets were flooded. A few portions of these roads were impassable at times. A few city and county roads were temporarily closed.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizabethtown	-	Trees were down near Elizabethtown.
June 2001	Hail	Elizabethtown	-	A ranger's office in the Shawnee National Forest reported dime size hail.
January 2022	Flood	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed
March 2020	Hail	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed
February 2020	Flood	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed
February 2019	Flood	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed
June 1998	Flash Flood	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed
March 1997	Flash Flood	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed
February 1996	Wildfire	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizabethtown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Illinois Iron Furnace	4.0 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000461 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hardin County	All 4 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.