Thomas W. and Margaret Taliaferro House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Thomas W. and Margaret Taliaferro House is a single-family home located at 1115 Eton Cross in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.”
Wikipedia article Thomas W. and Margaret Taliaferro House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 2011 · 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 6 objectss, 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Taliaferro, Thomas W. and Margaret, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1115 Eton Cross, Bloomfield Hills, 48304
When was it listed? September 2011
Category. building
City. Bloomfield Hills city
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 11000668 - 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

26 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Thomas W. and Margaret Taliaferro House between 2018 and 2019, burning about 26 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/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	3

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
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003804 - 2019
21 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0009445 - 2019
25 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TROY FD 0002242 - 2018
14 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003325 - 2019
13 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003315 - 2019
11 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BIRMINGHAM FD 0001383 - 2019
10 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007004 - 2018
1 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TROY FD 0001879 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Thomas W. and Margaret Taliaferro House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Daniels Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
	Underwood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield Hills, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash 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 2005	Lightning	Bloomfield Hills	$300,000	Lightning struck a house, resulting in a fire.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield Hills	$150,000	Widespread trees down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield Hills	$30,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield Hills	$7,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield Hills	-	Three to four inch tree limb on power line.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield Hills	-	Large tree uprooted.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield Hills	-	Trees reported blown down.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Bloomfield Hills	-	A quick 2.5 inches of rain in thunderstorms lead to flash flooding of the underpass at the intersection of Maple Road and South Easton Street. Flash flooding also blocked all lanes of traffic along southbound I-75 near 11 mile road.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield Hills	-	A spotter estimated a 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield Hills	-	Large tree limbs reported down.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield Hills	-	A trained spotter estimated a 60 MPH wind gust.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield Hills	-	A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield Hills	-	A trained spotter reported large limbs down.
July 2014	Hail	Bloomfield Hills	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Bloomfield Hills	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Bloomfield Hills	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Bloomfield Hills	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Bloomfield Hills	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Trowbridge Road-Grand Trunk Western Railroad Bridge	0.3 miles	2000
Minoru & Teruko Yamasaki House	0.8 miles	2013
Cranbrook House	0.9 miles	1973
John & Mary Elizabeth Booth Endicott House	0.9 miles	2008
Walbri Hall	1.0 miles	2022
H. Augustus and Agnes Cleveland O'Dell House-Inch House	1.1 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000668 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oakland County	All 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.