Photograph of MacLachlan Sanitarium — Photograph by rossograph, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dr. Charles H. MacLachlan Sanitarium and House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The MacLachlan Sanitarium is a hospital/family home located at 6482 Pingree Road in Elwell, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1981 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”
Wikipedia article MacLachlan Sanitarium, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Gratiot County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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.
Listed as. MacLachlan, Dr. Charles H., Sanitarium and House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 6482 Pingree Rd., Elwell, 48832
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Township. Seville township
National Register reference number. 82000533 - 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Charles H. MacLachlan Sanitarium and House between 2018 and 2019, burning about 7 acres in total. 2 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	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ITHACA FD 0000237 - 2019
14 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALMA FD 0000136 - 2019
8 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALMA FD 0000072 - 2019
1 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALMA FD 0000066 - 2019
28 February 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALMA FD 0000042 - 2018
26 February 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALMA FD 0000040 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Gratiot County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elwell, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2001	Tornado (F1)	Elwell	1 hurt, $150,000	A man was slightly injured when a shed he was in collapsed, a pickup truck was flipped over, and two building were partially unroofed by a F1 tornado that touched down in Elwell. The tornado produced maximum estimated wind speeds to 110 m.p.h. It had a path length of 3 miles and a width of 40 yards. The tornado touched down just south of Van Buren road, then moved northwest through the town of Elwell, and ended just north of M-46.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Elwell	$50,000	A few trees and power lines were brought down.

Every storm recorded in Gratiot 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
Wright Opera house Block Complex	4.3 miles	2013
Lincoln Road-Pine River Bridge	4.4 miles	1999
Alma Downtown Historic District	4.4 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000533 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gratiot County	All 6 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.