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Western House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Western House, also known as the Brighton Hotel, is a former hotel and boarding house at 500 West Main Street in Brighton, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”

Wikipedia article Western House (Brighton, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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. 500 W. Main St., Brighton, 48116
  • When was it listed? April 1986
  • Category. building
  • City. Brighton city
  • National Register reference number. 86000806 - 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

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Western House between 1994 and 2019, burning about 77 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRIGHTON AREA FD 0001398 - 2019
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRIGHTON AREA FD 0001078 - 2018
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRIGHTON AREA FD 0001080 - 2018
28 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000968 - 2018
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000897 - 2018
11 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRIGHTON AREA FD 0001087 - 2018
4 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRIGHTON AREA FD 0000849 - 2019
29 June 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000775 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Livingston 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 Western House: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brighton Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kensington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reyhl PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

47 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brighton, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 34 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 4 lightning. 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 1998LightningBrighton$1,500,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBrighton$50,000Thunderstorm winds brought down dozens of trees and power lines. Damage from the storm appeared to be confined mostly to the area of Brighton from the railroad tracks west to the high school. A couple of homes sustained damage from large trees which fell on them.
April 2003LightningBrighton$50,000Lightning struck an electrical pole at the rear of a house and set a portion of the garage on fire.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindBrighton$25,000The newspaper reported that thunderstorm winds blew a mobile home off of its foundation.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindBrighton$20,000A National Weather Service employee reported trees down. One tree, a 50-foot pine, fell onto a house in Green Oak Township. Total property damage was estimated at roughly $20K.
April 2002LightningBrighton$15,000A bolt of lightning struck a detached garage setting it ablaze. The garage suffered some sizable damage.
November 2016Thunderstorm WindBrighton$10,000Numerous reports of trees down between Brighton and Howell.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBrighton$10,000Numerous trees and power lines reported down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBrighton$8,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBrighton$5,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBrighton$3,000A large tree was blown down across US-23.
April 2001LightningBrighton$3,000Lightning struck the chimney of a Brighton home, damaging moldings, drywall, and carpeting. A computer in the home also received electrical damage.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Area hard hit between Spencer Road and Pleasant Valley Road in Brighton Township. A number of trees were uprooted. One tree fell on a vehicle.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Trees reported down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBrighton-A large tree limbs was blown down onto the road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Numerous six inch diameter tree branches reported down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Four inch diameter tree limbs reported down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBrighton-A tree was reported down.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBrighton-A tree was reported down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Small trees reported down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBrighton-A tree was reported down at Crooked Lake and Door roads.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Tree reported down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Trees reported down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBrighton-A trained spotter reported many large tree branches down and estimated the wind gusts at 65 MPH.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Law enforcement reported several large trees down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBrighton-A National Weather Service employee reported a tree branch 4 inches in diameter down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Central dispatch reported a tree blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBrighton-A NWS employee reported a large tree blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBrighton-The emergency manager reported numerous trees and wires down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBrighton-A trained spotter reported several large tree limbs blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Law enforcement reported several trees blown down in thunderstorm winds.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindBrighton-A spotter reported that a large tree was blown over in thunderstorm winds.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Law enforcement reported that numerous one foot diameter trees were blown down in Green Oak Township due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Limbs and power lines blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Trees blown down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Winds gusts to 60 mph were reported at Brighton.
May 2017HailBrighton-no account filed
July 2012HailBrighton-no account filed
July 2012HailBrighton-no account filed
June 2008HailBrighton-no account filed
September 2006HailBrighton-no account filed
June 2003HailBrighton-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBrighton-no account filed
June 2002HailBrighton-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindBrighton-no account filed
September 1998HailBrighton-no account filed
July 1997HailBrighton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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

5 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
August Westphal Farmstead2.0 miles1985
Timothy and Lucretia Jones Warner Homestead3.8 miles2011
Jacob Fishbeck Farmstead3.8 miles2003
Bingham House4.9 miles1972
Alonzo W. Olds House6.7 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000806 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston CountyAll 14 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.