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One of 101 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Dr. Gladys Rouse Office and House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Rouse, Dr. Gladys, Office and House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 221 Main St., Florence, 41042
- When was it listed? November 2005
- Category. building
- Also known as. Boone County, Kentucky MPS
- Census division. Florence
- Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 05001313 - 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 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Gladys Rouse Office and House between 2010 and 2018, burning about 45 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 March 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | INDEPENDENCE RAILROAD |
| 2 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SHERBOURNE |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dr. Gladys Rouse Office and House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Constance Yard | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
45 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florence, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 19 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 6 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Lightning | Florence | 1 hurt | A child was struck by lightning. |
| May 1996 | Lightning | Florence | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $30,000 | Several barns sustained damage at Turfway Park. Several trees and power poles were downed along State Route 18. |
| November 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $30,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Florence | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Flash Flood | Florence | $5,000 | Several roads were flooded due to heavy rainfall. |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Florence | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $3,000 | A few wires were downed on New Uri Avenue. |
| February 2018 | Flash Flood | Florence | $3,000 | Multiple cars throughout the county were stuck in high water. First responders were called out to assist, but nothing was life threatening. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $3,000 | Large trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Florence | $3,000 | Water was reported over Interstate 75. Water was also reported over a few other roads in the area. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $3,000 | Trees were blown down . |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $3,000 | Thunderstorms produced strong winds which knocked down trees. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $3,000 | Trees downed. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Florence | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $2,000 | A couple of trees were uprooted. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $2,000 | Several large trees were knocked down due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $2,000 | Large trees were knocked down on Shelby and Montgomery Streets. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Florence | $1,000 | The left lane of Interstate 75 was blocked due to high water. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $500 | A wire was knocked down. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | $500 | A large tree limb was knocked down. |
| July 2018 | Flood | Florence | - | Standing water was reported at the intersection of Bluegrass Road and Empire Drive. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Florence | - | There were several reports of very high water on roadways thoughout Florence. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Florence | - | High water was reported running over New Buffington Road. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | - | The wind gust was measured by the spotter. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | - | The wind gust was estimated. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Florence | - | Nickel to one inch hail was reported. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | - | An estimated gust of 60 mph occurred in Florence. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
| February 2002 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Florence | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Florence | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John Delehunty House | under 500 feet | 1989 |
 | Florence Hotel | 0.2 miles | 1989 |
 | Florence Fire Station | 0.2 miles | 1989 |
 | Clinton Blankenbeker House | 0.6 miles | 1989 |
 | Hopeful Lutheran Church | 1.9 miles | 1989 |
| Benjamin Piatt Fowler House | 4.3 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05001313 in Record Group 79. |
| Boone County | All 101 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.