Frank A. and Rae E. Harris Kramer House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Harris Kramer House is a private house located at 221 North Center Avenue in Gaylord, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1993 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”
Wikipedia article Frank A. and Rae E. Harris Kramer House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 2002 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Kramer, Frank A. and Rae E. Harris, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 221 N. Center Ave., Gaylord, 49735
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. building
City. Gaylord city
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 02001507 - 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Frank A. and Rae E. Harris Kramer House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 were 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
Debris and open burning	41
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Arson/incendiarism	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	8
Fireworks	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
3 September 2012	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTSEGO 29 - E DIXON LK
24 September 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTSEGO 21 - BIRTHDAY 11
14 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTSEGO 20 - BIRTHDAY 10
14 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTSEGO 13 - BIRTHDAY 3
14 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTSEGO 11 ¿ BIRTHDAY 1
14 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTSEGO 14 - BIRTHDAY 4

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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 Frank A. and Rae E. Harris Kramer House: 6 producers, 2 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Comstock's Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hoogerhyde Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mason Excavating Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mccay Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Otsego County Pit-Glancy	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Otsego County Road Commission Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Poor Farm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gaylord, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 26 thunderstorm wind, 24 hail, 2 lightning, 1 flood. 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 2009	Lightning	Gaylord	$500,000	A lightning strike ignited a rapidly-spreading fire that destroyed the Alpine Haus apartment complex. All residents were safely evacuated, but 52 people were left homeless.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$55,000	A swath of wind damage occurred from west of Gaylord, to central Otsego Lake. Trees were downed along M-32, Hayes Tower Road, and West Otsego Lake Drive. One very large limb was downed onto a cabin near the Beaver Creek Resort. Some damage was done to boats and docks on Otsego Lake.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a dock and damaged a boat on the northeast corner of Otsego Lake.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$50,000	Strong thunderstorm winds damaged a 60' X 60' tent set up for an entertainment event, causing and estimated $25 thousand to $30 thousand in damage to light and sound equipment inside the tent. Thunderstorm winds also caused minor damage to the roof of the Community Education Building in Gaylord.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$24,000	Two large trees were downed, one a healthy tree that fell on a vehicle, the second a rotting tree that fell on a home.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$18,000	Numerous trees and large limbs were knocked down. A golf course in Bagley Township lost sixty trees to high winds.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$15,000	Several trees were downed. One building was damaged by a falling tree, and a car on South Otsego Avenue near the library was also struck and damaged.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees along Elba Road.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds brought down a power line and a five inch diameter tree on Old Elba Road.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$5,000	A house was damaged and several trees were blown down or snapped off by thunderstorm winds along Morgan Road near Poquette Road.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$5,000	Strong winds damaged a barn roof and house near the intersection of Oregon and Parameter Roads.
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds ripped several hundred hardwood trees from the ground or snapped them off in a path 200 yards wide and extending 3 miles to the northeast. The roof and some external damage was done to a residence along the Haynes-Tower Line road 3.5 miles south of Highway M-32.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$4,000	Trees and large limbs were downed in southeast Otsego County.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$3,000	Trees down near Parmater RD and Pyke School RD.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$3,000	Several trees downed.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$1,500	A large tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$1,000	Trees damaged.
July 2024	Flood	Gaylord	$500	NWS Employee reported flooding of underpass at I-75 and M-32 in Gaylord, along with several other instances of street flooding in the city. KGLR ASOS reported 1.30 inches of rain in approximately 20 minutes; 24 hour total of 2.07 inches ending 7am EST July 30th.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	$500	A 10-inch-diameter poplar tree was uprooted by strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2023	Hail	Gaylord	-	Measured one inch hail by NWS employee.
May 2022	Hail	Gaylord	-	Quarter sized hail 5 miles northwest of Gaylord.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	-	An isolated severe thunderstorm downed a large tree along the west shore of Otsego Lake.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	-	Trees were downed.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	-	Trees down.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	-	Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and powerlines.
May 1998	Lightning	Gaylord	-	Lightning strikes started 2 house fires.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	-	Strong winds downed several trees.
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	-	Thunderstorm winds tore down a 50-foot tower and an amateur radio antenna.
June 2023	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
October 2007	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaylord	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Gaylord	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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

1 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
	Quick, James A. and Lottie J. (Congdon), House	0.1 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001507 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego County	All 3 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.