Hutzler's Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Hutzler's Barn is an agricultural building located north of the cemetery on South Manitou Island. It is the oldest remaining portion of George Johann Hutzler's homestead, and is significant for its role in the development of prize-winning Rosen rye and Michelite seeds.”
Wikipedia article Hutzler's Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 1978 · 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. W of Leland on South Manitou Island, Leland, 49654
When was it listed? January 1978
Category. building
Township. Glen Arbor township
National Register reference number. 78000375 - 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

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hutzler's Barn between 1993 and 1999, burning under an acre 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
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
20 August 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	BOARDWALK
30 May 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	MADDUX

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Storms near this property

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leland, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 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
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Leland	$5,200,000	Trees and power lines were downed in northern Leelanau County, though the damage was not as extensive as further south. Still, multiple vehicles and homes were damaged by falling trees.
June 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Leland	$20,000	A tornado touched down near the west shore of Lake Leelanau, then moved out onto the lake and quickly dissipated. Docks and boats were damaged along a short stretch of shoreline, and a few trees were downed in the area.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Leland	$10,000	Several trees were downed. Some power lines near the Leland Library were downed by falling trees.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Leland	$6,000	A number of trees and power lines were downed.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Leland	$4,000	A few trees were downed.
July 2006	Hail	Leland	-	Substantial damage done to fruit crops, including tart cherries, apples, and peaches.
June 2004	Hail	Leland	-	Considerable damage was done to fruit trees and other crops in the Leland area. Damage estimate is conservative.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Leland	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Leland	-	no account filed
September 2008	Hail	Leland	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Leland	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Leland	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Leland	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Leland	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Leland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leelanau 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

3 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
George Conrad Hutzler Farm	1.2 miles	1991
South Manitou Island Lighthouse Complex and Life Saving Station Historical District	2.2 miles	1983
North Manitou Shoal Light Station	7.8 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000375 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Leelanau County	All 25 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.