Winter Inn

Built in 1902 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Winter Inn is a hotel located at 100 N. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Winter Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Montcalm County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1902, Victorian architecture.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 100 N. Lafayette St., Greenville, 48838
When was it listed? April 1980
Category. building
City. Greenville city
When was it built? 1902
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 80001883 - 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 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Winter Inn between 1996 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 4 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	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
26 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GREENVILLE DPS 2003827 - 2020
29 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GREENVILLE DPS 1903524 - 2019
26 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MAPLE VALLEY TWP FIRE DEPARTMENT 0001935 - 2019
10 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MONTCALM TOWNSHIP FD 2018034 - 2018
5 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FD 2018040 - 2018
2 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GREENVILLE DPS 1801548 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Montcalm County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Winter Inn: 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Anderson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Harris Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Shook Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wheeler Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wheeler Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Montcalm County

Storms near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenville, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 12 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2003	Hail	Greenville	1 hurt, $20,000	A motorcyclist suffered a minor injury when he was hit in the mouth by a hailstone. Three quarters inch hail was reported six miles north of Greenville and seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported five miles north of Greenville, where a parking lot was covered by hail near Colby and M-91.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$50,000	no account filed
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$20,000	A trained spotter reported several large branches were blown down and some damage to gutters and shingles of a restaurant.
July 2003	Hail	Greenville	$20,000	Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported approximately eight miles north of Greenville.
June 2005	Hail	Greenville	$20,000	no account filed
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$10,000	Trees were downed by strong winds.
August 2015	Hail	Greenville	$5,000	Trained spotters reported hail up to an inch and a quarter in diameter near Greenville.
May 2006	Hail	Greenville	$5,000	Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported by the public near Greenville.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$5,000	A couple of trees were blown down onto power lines in Greenville.
August 2004	Hail	Greenville	$5,000	A trained spotter reported one inch diameter hail in Greenville.
July 2004	Hail	Greenville	$5,000	A trained spotter in Greenville reported three quarters inch diameter hail.
June 2005	Hail	Greenville	$5,000	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$5,000	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$2,000	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$2,000	no account filed
March 2024	Hail	Greenville	-	A trained spotter in Greenville reported nickel sized hail.
August 2019	Hail	Greenville	-	Hail up to one inch in diameter was reported near Greenville.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A trained spotter reported an estimated gust to 60 mph near Greenville.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A trained spotter reported estimated wind gusts to 60 to 65 mph which blew down power lines.
December 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A 62 knot wind gust was recorded by a mesonet site in Montcalm county.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Several large limbs and one large tree were blown down at Baldwin Lake.
August 2007	Hail	Greenville	-	no account filed
February 1997	Flash Flood	Greenville	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Greenville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montcalm 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Greenville Downtown Historic District	0.1 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001883 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montcalm County	All 3 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.