Port Sanilac Masonic and Town Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Masonic and Town Hall, located at 20 North Ridge Street in Port Sanilac, Michigan, was constructed as a Masonic Lodge constructed in 1884. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”
Wikipedia article Port Sanilac Masonic and Town Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Sanilac County · listed in 1996 · 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.
Address. 20 N. Ridge St., Port Sanilac, 48469
When was it listed? July 1996
Category. building
Township. Sanilac township
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 96000808 - 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

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Port Sanilac Masonic and Town Hall between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
6 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORT SANILAC FD 98 - 2020
24 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORT SANILAC FD 12018 - 2018
9 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORT SANILAC FD 256 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Sanilac County

Storms near this property

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Sanilac, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Sanilac	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds uprooted numerous large trees, up to 2 feet in diameter. Scattered light damage to a few houses occurred due to downed trees. One automobile was heavily damaged by a falling tree.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Sanilac	-	Multiple reports of trees down across Carsonville.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Sanilac	-	Multiple trees down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Sanilac	-	Local law enforcement reported trees down.
July 2022	Hail	Port Sanilac	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanilac 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Port Sanilac Light Station	0.2 miles	1984
	Joseph M. Loop House	0.5 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000808 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanilac County	All 10 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.
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.