Old Cadillac City Hall

Built in 1900 (Richardsonian Romanesque). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Old Cadillac City Hall is a government building located at 201 Mitchell Street in Cadillac, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1983 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article Old Cadillac City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Wexford County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1900, Richardsonian Romanesque.

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. 201 Mitchell St., Cadillac, 49601
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
City. Cadillac city
When was it built? 1900
Architectural style. Richardsonian Romanesque
National Register reference number. 86001380 - 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Old Cadillac City Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 193 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
21 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2018	Arson/incendiarism	79 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WEXFORD 04 - BOND MILL POND
27 August 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WEXFORD 07 - BIG PINE FIRE
23 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CADILLAC DPS 0001617 - 2018
20 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HARING TOWNSHIP FD 72 - 2020
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CADILLAC DPS 0001278 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Wexford County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Old Cadillac City Hall: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Wilcox Brothers Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Dunbar Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mcfall Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wexford Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wexford County

Storms near this property

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cadillac, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 22 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 2 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	$35,000	Numerous trees and power lines downed. Several vehicles, and the roof of a residence, were heavily damaged by falling trees.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	$35,000	Several trees and large limbs were knocked down in Cadillac. One mobile home in Country Acres was destroyed by a falling tree.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Cadillac	$20,000	Water was over a foot deep on Mitchell Street in Cadillac.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	$11,000	Numerous trees and large limbs were downed in Cadillac. Some power outages resulted.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	$7,500	Central dispatch reports trees and powerlines down across Wexford county. Time estimated by radar.
October 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	$7,000	Trees and power lines downed. Several road signs blown over along US-131.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	$5,000	Multiple trees down.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	$5,000	Trees down over roadway.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	$5,000	Multiple trees were downed.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	$4,500	A boat on Lake Cadillac was flipped over. Power lines were downed in the city of Cadillac, and a large tree was toppled onto power lines.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	$4,000	Trees were downed on Wright and Lake Streets in Cadillac.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	$2,000	Trees down in Cadillac. Time estimated by radar.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	$2,000	Several large trees and some power lines were reported blown down by the wind in and around the Cadillac area.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	-	Strong thunderstorm winds downed a portion of a tree onto a house in Cadillac.
February 2024	Hail	Cadillac	-	Accumulating pea-size hail in the area, with hail up to nickel-sized.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	-	Power pole snapped in half.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	-	Trees and power lines down.
May 2000	Flash Flood	Cadillac	-	Up to six inches of water covered some city streets.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	-	Trees down .
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	-	Billboard and power lines blown over
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	-	Power lines down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	-	Several trees and power lines down.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	-	Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down many large tree limbs. Some of the tree limbs were up to 10 inches in diameter.
September 2021	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
September 2021	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
October 2007	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
October 2006	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadillac	-	no account filed
August 1993	Hail	Cadillac	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wexford 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Masonic Temple Building	under 500 feet	1994
Cadillac Public Library	under 500 feet	2007
Charles T. Mitchell House	0.1 miles	1986
Elks Temple Building	0.2 miles	1988
Cobbs and Mitchell Building	0.3 miles	2010
Frank J. Cobbs House	0.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001380 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wexford County	All 9 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.