Photograph of Meadow Brook Hall — Photograph by Wm. Chris Rowland, II, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Meadow Brook Farms

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1929 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Meadow Brook Hall is a Tudor Revival style mansion located at 350 Estate Drive in Rochester Hills, Michigan. It was built between 1926 and 1929 by the heiress to the Dodge automaker fortune, Matilda Dodge Wilson, and her second husband, lumber baron Alfred Wilson.”
Wikipedia article Meadow Brook Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1929, Tudor Revival architecture · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. 480 S. Adams Rd., Rochester, 48309
When was it listed? April 1979
Category. building
City. Rochester Hills city
When was it built? 1929
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 79001166 - 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

27 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Meadow Brook Farms between 2018 and 2020, burning about 25 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	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	3
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
29 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCHESTER HILLS FD 0005044 - 2019
23 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004371 - 2020
1 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004453 - 2019
4 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	AUBURN HILLS FD 0001651 - 2020
25 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004326 - 2019
14 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004065 - 2019
10 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007004 - 2018
27 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCHESTER HILLS FD 0003722 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Meadow Brook Farms: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ajax Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bald Mt Plant No. 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nay and Gladstone Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Underwood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rochester, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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 1995	Hail	Rochester	-	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
Griggs Brothers-Rochester Elevator Company Grain Elevator	2.9 miles	2010
Rollin Sprague Building-Old Stone Store	3.4 miles	1999
Western Knitting Mills	3.5 miles	2000
Milo Prentice Newberry House	4.1 miles	2018
Charles Torrey House	4.1 miles	1992
Modern Housing Corporation Addition Historic District	4.3 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001166 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.