Graham House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Graham House was built as a duplex home located at 325 Main Street in Lowell, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”
Wikipedia article Graham House (Lowell, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 323-325 Main St., Lowell, 49331
When was it listed? January 1972
Category. building
City. Lowell city
National Register reference number. 72000626 - 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

25 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Graham House between 2015 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
21 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LOWELL AREA FD 450 - 2019
8 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALTO-BOWNE TOWNSHIP FD 0000103 - 2019
6 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LOWELL AREA FD 326 - 2018
18 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 816 - 2018
18 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ADA TOWNSHIP FD 0000246 - 2018
16 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALTO-BOWNE TOWNSHIP FD 0000105 - 2019
1 May 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LOWELL AREA FD 298 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Kent 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 Graham House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
	Mathews Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Pickett and Schreur Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowell, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Lowell	$50,000	An NWS storm survey determined that an EF-0 tornado was on the ground for a minute with a path length of 0.6 miles. Several trees and limbs were snapped from Bennett Street and Cumberland Avenue to Vergennes Street east of Cumberland Avenue.
July 2003	Hail	Lowell	$40,000	A report of one inch diameter hail was received in Lowell.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lowell	$25,000	Multiple trees were blown down in and near Lowell as reported by the Kent county road commission.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lowell	$20,000	A tree was blown down onto a house off of Lincoln Lake road.
May 2006	Hail	Lowell	$20,000	Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported in Lowell and a large diameter tree was blown down in East Grand Rapids which also brought down power lines.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lowell	$10,000	The public in Lowell reported some tree limbs were blown down and a roof of a home was damaged.
March 2003	Hail	Lowell	$10,000	Three quarters inch hail was reported in Lowell, and at one point hail covered the ground in Lowell township.
April 2008	Hail	Lowell	$10,000	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lowell	$10,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lowell	$7,000	Several trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts near Three Mile and Lincoln Lake roads.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lowell	$7,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lowell	-	Trained weather spotter estimated 70-mph wind gusts in Lowell.
April 2008	Hail	Lowell	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kent 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
Downtown Lowell Historic District	0.2 miles	1999
Fallasburg Covered Bridge	3.3 miles	1972
Fallasburg Historic District	3.4 miles	1999
Ada Covered Bridge	7.4 miles	1970
Whitney Tavern Stand	7.5 miles	2007
Thornapple River Drive Bridge	7.6 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000626 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent County	All 57 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.