Gundlach-Grosse House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Gundlach-Grosse House is a historic house located at 625 N. Main St. in Columbia, Illinois, United States.”
Wikipedia article Gundlach-Grosse House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1978 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 625 N. Main St., Columbia, 62236
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 78001173 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gundlach-Grosse House: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Columbia Quarry & Mill #9	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Columbia Quarry No. 1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Columbia Quarry No. 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Columbia, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 23 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 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
April 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Columbia	$15,000	A brief and weak tornado touched down along EE Road just south of Gilmore Lake and quickly moved northeast before dissipating at the intersection of EE Road and Gilmore Lake Road at 8:13 PM. When the tornado touched down it overturned an outbuilding, and was rated at 99 mph (EF-1) at this point. Tree damage was also recorded. The tornado dissipated shortly thereafter at 8:07 PM.The tornado was rated EF-1 with a path length of 0.35 miles and a maximum path width of 100 yards.
May 1993	Hail	Columbia	$5,000	Ham radio operators and county officials reported golf ball-size hail. The hail covered the ground and was accompanied by wind gusts of 40 to 45 miles an hour.
May 1993	Hail	Columbia	$5,000	Ham radio operators and county officials reported golf ball-size hail. The hail covered the ground and was accompanied by wind gusts of 40 to 45 miles an hour.
May 2008	Flash Flood	Columbia	$1,000	Several rounds of thunderstorms produced 2 - 5 inches of rain that resulted in flash flooding. Nearly a foot of water was reported running off farm fields over several roadways, including Old Baum Church Road and Ahne Road. Ahne Road was closed until further due to a large culvert breaking through the pavement.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	$125	Several homes southeast of Columbia sustained minor roof damage.
March 2025	Hail	Columbia	-	The Columbia police department reported hail between quarter and golf ball sized.
March 2025	Hail	Columbia	-	Hail ranging from 1 inch to 1.5 inches fell in Columbia.
March 2024	Hail	Columbia	-	Two cells merged in Monroe County, briefly producing 0.75 to 1 inch hail before weakening. No damage was reported.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees just southeast of Columbia.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees around town and caused minor roof damage to one building.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines around town.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs. One large tree limb landed on a house causing moderate damage. Also, some homes sustained minor guttering and siding damage.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a highway sign on I-255.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs between Columbia and Hecker.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Columbia	-	Up to 4 inches of rain fell onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads through out the county were flooded.
April 2013	Flash Flood	Columbia	-	Up to five inches of rain fell in a short amount of time over Monroe County causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including portions of Bluff Road and Brandt Road.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs around Columbia.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Columbia	-	Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads had water over them including Bluff Road near intersection with Trout Road. Several streets in Waterloo had 5 inches of water over them.
September 2008	Flood	Columbia	-	Up to three inches of rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ike fell onto already saturated soils causing flooding. Numerous roads were flooded.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs across town. A few of the limbs fell onto Illinois Route 3.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	Emergency management personnel reported some large tree limbs and power lines down from estimated 70 mph wind gusts.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
September 2006	Hail	Columbia	-	Just southeast of Columbia along Illinois Route 3.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	Storm spotters reported large tree limbs down.
April 2003	Hail	Columbia	-	Storm spotters reported hail up to golfball size.
April 2026	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
March 2025	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
March 2025	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
April 2018	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
December 2010	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
December 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
February 2006	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Columbia	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
	Peterstown House	7.9 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001173 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 5 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.
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.