William Hawkins Ferry House

Built in 1964 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“Hawkins Ferry House, or William Hawkins Ferry House, is a private house located at 874 Lake Shore Road in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.”
Wikipedia article W. Hawkins Ferry House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2019 · category: Building · built in 1964, modern architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Ferry, William Hawkins, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 874 Lake Shore Rd., Grosse Point Shores, 48236
When was it listed? May 2019
Category. building
City. Village of Grosse Pointe Shores city
When was it built? 1964
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 100003936 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

44 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of William Hawkins Ferry House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 4 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	17
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
24 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034344 - 2019
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034155 - 2019
11 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EASTPOINTE FIRE/RESCUE 0003704 - 2019
9 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EASTPOINTE FIRE/RESCUE 3373 - 2020
9 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR SHORES FD 4796 - 2019
6 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0027928 - 2019
30 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR SHORES FD 0005454 - 2018
13 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0028947 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of William Hawkins Ferry House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Port Huron Salt Co.	Salt	Past Producer

Every working 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
Grosse Pointe Yacht Club	0.5 miles	2015
John T. Woodhouse House	2.5 miles	2005
Carl E. and Alice Candler Schmidt House	2.6 miles	2005
Koebel, Charles J. and Ingrid V. (Frendberg), House	2.9 miles	2009
Saint Paul Catholic Church Complex	3.4 miles	1994
Academy of the Sacred Heart	3.5 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003936 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.