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Photograph of Royal Aldrich House
Photograph by Dave Parker, CC BY-SA 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Royal Aldrich House

Built in 1843 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Royal Aldrich House is a single-family house located at 31110 West 11 Mile Road in Farmington Hills, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”

Wikipedia article Royal Aldrich House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1843, Greek 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Aldrich, Royal, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 31110 W. 11 Mile Rd., Farmington Hills, 48334
  • When was it listed? August 1994
  • Category. building
  • City. Farmington Hills city
  • When was it built? 1843
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 94000755 - 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

25 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Royal Aldrich House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 24 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
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural2
Smoking2

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 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0010098 - 2019
11 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMINGTON HILLS FD 0007167 - 2019
9 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMINGTON HILLS FD 0006209 - 2019
11 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKLIN-BINGHAM FD 0000327 - 2019
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006927 - 2019
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0007575 - 2018
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0007502 - 2018
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0004970 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Royal Aldrich House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bigelow Clay Prod Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmington Hills, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1995Thunderstorm WindFarmington Hills$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew over a tree and damaged the roofs of two buildings, including the Old Orchard Theater, at the intersection of Orchard Lake Road and 12-mile Road.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindFarmington Hills$1,000About 6,000 people were without power after strong winds blew down power lines.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFarmington Hills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Farmington Historic District1.7 miles1976
Botsford-Graser House1.7 miles2002
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Farmington1.8 miles2014
Botsford Inn3.3 miles1979
John Grace School3.6 miles2023
Franklin Historic District (Boundary Increase)3.9 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94000755 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oakland CountyAll 87 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.