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Walter P. and May Wolf Reuther House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Walter P. and May Wolf Reuther House is a single-family home located at 3924-3950-3954 Ellamae in Oakland Township near Rochester, Michigan. The house was built for Walter Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers union, and his wife.”

Wikipedia article Walter P. and May Wolf Reuther House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Reuther, Walter P. and May Wolf, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 3924-3950-3954 Ellamae (Oakland Township), Rochester, 48363
  • When was it listed? June 2002
  • Category. district
  • Charter township. Oakland charter township
  • Architectural style. International Style
  • National Register reference number. 02000668 - 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

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Walter P. and May Wolf Reuther House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3

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
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER HILLS FD 0005044 - 2019
23 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004371 - 2020
13 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0001820 - 2018
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUBURN HILLS FD 0001651 - 2020
25 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004326 - 2019
23 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER FD 0000909 - 2019
9 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER HILLS FD 0002595 - 2018
17 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesORION TOWNSHIP FD 0000198 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Walter P. and May Wolf Reuther House: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ajax Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bald Mt Plant No. 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Compton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holloway Oakland County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nay and Gladstone PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sees Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Webers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995HailRochester-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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000668 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oakland CountyAll 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.