John J. Makinen Bottle House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Makinen Bottle House is a house built of bottle wall construction in 1941 by John J. It is located in Kaleva, Michigan near Manistee.”
Wikipedia article John J. Makinen Bottle House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Manistee County · listed in 1987 · 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. Makinen, John J., Bottle House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 14551 Wuoksi Ave., Kaleva, 49645
When was it listed? July 1987
Category. building
Township. Maple Grove township
National Register reference number. 87000423 - 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of John J. Makinen Bottle House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25 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
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DICKSON TOWNSHIP FD 0201914 - 2019
20 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	MAIDENS ROAD
26 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	KERRY ROAD
11 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	WHITE PINE
9 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MANISTEE 01
2 July 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	COATES
13 June 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	ZIEHM
29 May 1992	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Manistee 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 John J. Makinen Bottle House: 2 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cecil Gronlund Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Gronlund Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Manistee County

Storms near this property

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kaleva, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2022	Hail	Kaleva	-	Hail report relayed by local broadcast media.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Kaleva	-	A spotter estimated 60 mph winds.
June 2008	Hail	Kaleva	-	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Kaleva	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Manistee 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000423 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Manistee County	All 19 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.