Mellus Newspapers Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Mellus Newspapers Building was a commercial building at 1661 Fort Street in Lincoln Park, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and demolished in 2010.”
Wikipedia article Mellus Newspapers Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1661 Fort St., Lincoln Park, 48146
When was it listed? July 2005
Category. building
City. Lincoln Park city
Architectural style. Moderne architecture
National Register reference number. 05000716 - 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

58 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Mellus Newspapers Building between 2018 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WYANDOTTE FD 0000619 - 2019
5 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DEARBORN FD 0010923 - 2018
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHGATE FD 1903240 - 2019
26 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TAYLOR FD 0007107 - 2019
15 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0033077 - 2019
3 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TAYLOR FD 0005702 - 2019
3 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALLEN PARK FD 0002267 - 2019
16 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ECORSE FD 1658 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Mellus Newspapers Building: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Calcium, Salt, Halite. 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	Recorded
Detroit Mine	Salt	Producer
Detroit Salt Mine	Halite	Producer	1895, 1910
Wr Grace Zonolite Div	Vermiculite	Producer
Clippert Brick and Tile Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Detroit Lime Co Calcining Plant	Calcium	Producer
Ford Clay Pit and Mine	Clay	Past Producer
River Rouge Limekiln	Calcium	Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincoln Park, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1999	Lightning	Lincoln Park	1 hurt	As a woman walked by a window in her home, lightning apparently struck just outside. The woman was briefly knocked unconscious.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Lincoln Park	$64,000,000	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln Park	-	Large tree limbs reported down.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln Park	-	A large tree was uprooted and fell onto a house.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln Park	-	Trees reported blown down.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln Park	-	A small tree was reported down.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln Park	-	Large tree uprooted.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln Park	-	Large tree branches reported down on power lines.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln Park	-	Eight to ten inch diameter limbs down on Kings Highway.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln Park	-	A trained spotter measured a 58 MPH wind gust.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln Park	-	A trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 60 MPH.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln Park	-	Four inch diameter tree limbs were reported down.
June 2006	Hail	Lincoln Park	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Lincoln Park	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Lincoln Park Post Office	0.2 miles	2004
Fort Street-Pleasant Street and Norfolk & Western Railroad Viaduct	2.7 miles	2000
West Jefferson Avenue-Rouge River Bridge	3.1 miles	2000
John and Emma Lacey Eberts House	3.3 miles	2009
George P. MacNichol House	3.3 miles	1984
Marx House	3.4 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000716 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 396 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.