Western Knitting Mills

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Western Knitting Mills is a former industrial building located at 400 Water Street in Rochester, Michigan. The building has been renovated to serve commercial tenants, including Rochester Mills Beer Company.”
Wikipedia article Western Knitting Mills, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 400 Water St., Rochester, 48307
When was it listed? June 2000
Category. building
City. Rochester city
National Register reference number. 00000646 - 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

34 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Western Knitting Mills between 2018 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 5 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	16
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
25 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0005784 - 2018
29 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCHESTER HILLS FD 0005044 - 2019
23 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004371 - 2020
13 August 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0001820 - 2018
1 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004453 - 2019
4 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	AUBURN HILLS FD 0001651 - 2020
30 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0004548 - 2018
28 July 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0004509 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Western Knitting Mills: 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Macomb Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Morgan Number 1 Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nay and Gladstone Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Underwood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rochester, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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
July 1995	Hail	Rochester	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Rollin Sprague Building-Old Stone Store	0.1 miles	1999
Griggs Brothers-Rochester Elevator Company Grain Elevator	0.6 miles	2010
Milo Prentice Newberry House	0.6 miles	2018
Stony Creek Village Historic District	1.4 miles	1972
Meadow Brook Farms	3.5 miles	1979
Eli and Sidney Teeter Albertson House	3.7 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000646 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oakland County	All 87 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.