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Photograph of Giles J. Gibbs Building
Photograph by GPWITT, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Giles J. Gibbs Building-Sugar Bowl

Built in 1867 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Gibbs Building, also known as the Sugar Bowl, is a commercial building located at 12 North Clinton Avenue in St. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”

Wikipedia article Giles J. Gibbs Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1867, Italianate architecture.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Gibbs, Giles J., Building--Sugar Bowl - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 12 N. Clinton Ave., St. Johns, 48879
  • When was it listed? March 2000
  • Category. building
  • City. St. Johns city
  • When was it built? 1867
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 00000223 - 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

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Giles J. Gibbs Building-Sugar Bowl between 2018 and 2019, burning about 9 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
10 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOHNS FD 0003755 - 2018
12 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOHNS FD 0003948 - 2019
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOHNS FD 0003892 - 2019
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDALLAS TOWNSHIP FD 2019009 - 2019
3 March 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOHNS FD 0003652 - 2018
28 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOHNS FD 0003885 - 2019
25 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEWITT AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 0000088 -
16 March 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOHNS FD 0003661 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Giles J. Gibbs Building-Sugar Bowl: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Moore Clay PitClayPast Producer
American Excavating PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clinton County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ionia Co. Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Karber Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standard Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Union School0.3 miles1980
East Ward School0.5 miles1980
Stony Creek Bridge6.1 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000223 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton CountyAll 6 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.