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Photograph of Warren Featherbone Company Office Building
Photograph by Teemu08, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Warren Featherbone Company Office Building

Built in 1905 (Renaissance Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Warren Featherbone Company Office Building is an office building located at 3 North Elm Street in Three Oaks, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”

Wikipedia article Warren Featherbone Company Office Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Berrien County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1905, Renaissance Revival 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. 3 N. Elm St., Three Oaks, 49128
  • When was it listed? January 1986
  • Category. building
  • Township. Three Oaks township
  • When was it built? 1905
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 86000117 - 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Warren Featherbone Company Office Building between 2018 and 2020, burning about 14 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 use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural4

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHREE OAKS FD 0000035 - 2019
22 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2019
7 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 74 - 2019
22 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 193 - 2019
5 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 100 - 2020
21 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 120 - 2019
8 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 30 - 2020
25 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 92 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Warren Featherbone Company Office Building: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay. 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
Crosby Marl PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this property

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Three Oaks, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks$50,000Facebook photo shows a tree down onto a home in Three Oaks.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down in the area. Reports of a brief tornado touchdown were received at the intersection of Avery Road and US-12. A official survey of the area determined that the damage was the result of straight line winds of 60 tp 65 mph.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks$5,000Berrien County officials reported winds snapped off pine trees and blew the roof off of a resident's garage and dumped it 300 feet away from the garage.Downed power lines cut power to approximately 1300 customers in Berrien County.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-Local law enforcement reported scattered trees and power lines down across the county.
May 2011HailThree Oaks-Law enforcement officials reported mainly pea size hail, with a few hailstones to the size of nickels.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-A trained spotter reported around eight large pine trees, roughly 40 to 50 feet tall, uprooted.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-Numerous trees were reported down across southern parts of county, including the Buchanan area.
December 2007Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-Numerous trees were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-Trees reported down in the area.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-Emergency management reported trees down in Three Oaks.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-Large tree limbs down
February 2017HailThree Oaks-no account filed
June 2005HailThree Oaks-no account filed
August 2003HailThree Oaks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berrien 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Union Meat Market0.2 miles1972
Lakeside Inn4.5 miles2009
Avery Road-Galien River Bridge5.8 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000117 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berrien CountyAll 32 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.