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Photograph of Ironwood Memorial/Municipal Building
Photograph by Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Memorial Building

Built in 1923 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Ironwood Memorial Building, also known as the Ironwood Municipal Building or the Ironwood Memorial/Municipal Building, is a government building located at the corner of McLeod Avenue and Marquette Street in Ironwood, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”

Wikipedia article Ironwood Memorial/Municipal Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Gogebic County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1923, Neoclassical architecture, by Charles E. Bell.

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. McLeod Ave. and Marquette St., Ironwood, 49938
  • When was it listed? November 1980
  • Category. building
  • City. Ironwood city
  • When was it built? 1923
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • Architect. Charles E. Bell
  • National Register reference number. 80001857 - 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

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Memorial Building between 1993 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 were 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBESSEMER FD 0200913 - 2020
26 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 2 HWY 51 EXCHANGE
29 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCENTER DRIVE POWER LINE
16 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Gogebic County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Memorial Building: 30 past producers, 6 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Montreal MineManganese, IronPast Producer1886
Gogebic County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hurley Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hurley Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
City of Ironwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Globe Industries Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hurley Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iron County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Katie Saari PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Montreal Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Gogebic County

Storms near this property

32 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ironwood, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 heavy rain, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013FloodIronwood$1,000,000Rapid melting of significant late season snow pack caused moderate flooding of roads in the Ironwood, Bessemer, Wakefield and Marenisco areas from the 28th into the 30th. Minor flooding continued into early May. Some flooding of basements was also reported. A portion of Highway M-28 was closed in Wakefield due to flooding from Sunday Lake. Governor Rick Snyder declared a state of disaster in Gogebic County where nearly one million dollars of property damage occurred due to the flooding mainly to roadway infrastructure.
June 2018Flash FloodIronwood$20,000Possible roads washed out near Cloverland Cinemas per Public Safety Radio. Much of Ironwood, including stores along Highway US-2, was without electricity on Sunday evening the 17th due to storms and flooding. Homeowners reported flooded basements.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindIronwood$15,000Over 100 trees down on Lake Rd. Two houses and a car were damaged by falling trees.
July 2010FloodIronwood$10,000Nearly three inches of heavy rainfall flooded a large section of US-2 from Douglas to Lowell Street in Ironwood. Several houses and building were flooded near Hemlock Street on the west side of Ironwood.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindIronwood$10,000no account filed
September 2010Thunderstorm WindIronwood$5,000The Gogebic County Sheriff reported widespread trees and power lines down across Ironwood. A spotter also reported 12-inch diameter branches down on McLeod Avenue. Time of the reported was estimated.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindIronwood$5,000Trees and power lines down near Gogebic County Airport.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindIronwood$3,000Law enforcement dispatch reported a tree snapped and lying on a rooftop in the city of Ironwood. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Ironwood$3,000Law enforcement dispatch reported three trees snapped in North Ironwood. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindIronwood$2,000Social media posts reported trees down with minor street flooding in Ironwood.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindIronwood$1,000A NWS student volunteer in Ironwood reported a large diameter maple tree of one foot in diameter snapped in Ironwood. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindIronwood$1,000There was a social media report of several small poplar trees down on Sunset Road in Ironwood Township.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindIronwood$1,000A tree was blown down on power lines.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNorth Ironwood$500Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Airport Road and Lake Road in Ironwood.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindIronwood$500An 8-10 inch diameter tree snapped in half during strong winds.
May 2024HailIronwood-Report of penny-sized hail in Ironwood from mPING.
June 2018HailIronwood-The spotter in Ironwood observed dime-sized hail from storms.
August 2014Heavy RainIronwood-The observer near Ironwood measured 1.94 inches of rainfall in approximately 36 hours.
September 2010HailIronwood-Pea to dime-sized hail was reported.
May 2007HailIronwood-Some penny but mostly dime-sized hail.
October 2005Heavy RainIronwood-Three inches of rain caused minor street flooding.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindIronwood-A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was reported.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindIronwood-Power lines were knocked down.
June 1999HailIronwood-1.00 inch hail
May 1998Thunderstorm WindIronwood-Large branches downed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindIronwood-Two trees 12 inches in diameter were uprooted and fell on a trailer.
May 2012HailIronwood-no account filed
July 2006HailIronwood-no account filed
July 2006HailIronwood-no account filed
July 1999HailIronwood-no account filed
May 1998HailIronwood-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindIronwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gogebic 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Ironwood Carnegie Libraryunder 500 feet2011
Ironwood City Hallunder 500 feet1980
Solomon S. Curry House0.2 miles1982
Ironwood Theatre Complex0.2 miles1985
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot0.2 miles1985
Gogebic County Courthouse5.7 miles1981

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80001857 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gogebic CountyAll 11 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.