Houppert Winery Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Houppert Winery Complex, now The Old Winery, is a complex of buildings constructed as a winery and located at 646 North Nursery in Lawton, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1997 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Houppert Winery Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Van Buren County · listed in 2000 · 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 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 646 N Nursery, Lawton, 49065
When was it listed? March 2000
Category. building
Township. Antwerp township
National Register reference number. 00000222 - 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Houppert Winery Complex between 2002 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 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	23
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PAW PAW VFD 0000165 - 2019
9 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PAW PAW VFD 0000142 - 2019
5 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PAW PAW VFD 0000137 - 2019
3 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAWTON FD 0000074 - 2019
13 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAWTON FD 0000078 - 2019
20 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAWTON FD 0000045 - 2018
6 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MATTAWAN FD 43 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Houppert Winery Complex: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Budzen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Klett Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this property

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawton, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2010	Hail	Lawton	$50,000,000	Trained spotters across the far southeastern portion of Van Buren county reported hail up to one and a quarter inches in diameter and wind damage. Several trees were blown down and the large wind driven hail resulted in siding damage to homes across that area.
February 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawton	$250,000	A trained spotter three miles south southwest of Lawton reported that several trees and power lines were blown down onto county road 669 just north of 79th street. Several trees and limbs were blown down onto homes and outbuildings in the area.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawton	$200,000	Numerous trees were blown down near Lawton.
December 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawton	$50,000	Numerous trees were blown down in Lawton.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawton	$20,000	A severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at up to 65 mph and hail up to one inch in diameter. The wind caused a large tree limb to snap and fall on a house in Lawton.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawton	$10,000	Law enforcement in Lawton reported several trees were blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawton	$10,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawton	$5,000	A NWS storm survey revealed that several trees were blown down across Van Buren county.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawton	$5,000	A NWS storm survey revealed that several trees were blown down in and near Lawton.
June 2006	Hail	Lawton	$5,000	Three quarters inch hail was reported in Lawton.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawton	-	At least three downed trees.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawton	-	Backyard weather station reported peak wind gust of 68mph at 514pm.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawton	-	Mesonet gust report.
July 2023	Funnel Cloud	Lawton	-	A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud near 92nd avenue in Lawton. No tornado was reported.
June 2008	Hail	Lawton	-	Penny sized hail was reported by a trained spotter.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawton	-	Trees downed in Lawton, with some minor structural damage to homes. No damage estimate was available.
February 1997	Flash Flood	Lawton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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

2 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
	Van Buren County Courthouse Complex	3.9 miles	1979
	Paw Paw City Hall	4.0 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000222 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Van Buren County	All 9 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.