Grace Ingersoll McGraw House

Built in 1927 (Georgian Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

“The Grace Ingersoll McGraw House is a private residence located at 17315 East Jefferson Avenue in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.”
Wikipedia article Grace Ingersoll McGraw House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2023 · category: Building · built in 1927, Georgian Revival architecture, by Charles A. Platt.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. McGraw, Grace Ingersoll, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 17315 East Jefferson Ave., Grosse Pointe, 48230
When was it listed? February 2023
Category. building
City. Grosse Pointe city
When was it built? 1927
Architectural style. Georgian Revival architecture
Architect. Charles A. Platt
National Register reference number. 100007934 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

56 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Grace Ingersoll McGraw House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning	26
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
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
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034676 - 2019
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034284 - 2019
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034155 - 2019
6 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0027928 - 2019
4 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0027607 - 2019
30 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0030888 - 2019
30 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR SHORES FD 0005454 - 2018
25 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0030316 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grosse Pointe, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1994: 2 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 1994	Hail	Grosse Pointe	-	Golf ball-size hail covered the ground.
April 1994	Hail	Grosse Pointe	-	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
Cadieux School	0.2 miles	2023
William and Margot Kessler House	0.4 miles	2013
Beverly Road Historic District	0.4 miles	1995
Grosse Pointe High School	0.5 miles	1993
Grosse Pointe Memorial Church	0.5 miles	1993
Russell A. Alger Jr. House	0.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007934 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.
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.