Dorr E. Felt Mansion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Felt Mansion is a house located at 66th Street and 138th Avenue, in Laketown Township, Michigan near Saugatuck, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”
Wikipedia article Dorr E. Felt Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Allegan 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Felt, Dorr E., Mansion - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 66th St., N of 138th Ave., Laketown Township, Saugatuck, 49423
When was it listed? December 1996
Category. building
Township. Laketown township
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 96001418 - 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

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Dorr E. Felt Mansion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 5 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 use	5
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAAFSCHAP FD 2018470 - 2018
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAAFSCHAP FD 2019424 - 2019
7 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALLEGAN #8
7 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HAMILTON FD 0000149 - 2018
16 May 1992	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP FD 2018256 - 2018
3 April 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAAFSCHAP FD 2019155 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Allegan 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 Dorr E. Felt Mansion: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. 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
	Laketown Site	Silica	Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this property

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saugatuck, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2005: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 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
May 2000	Hail	Saugatuck	$100,000	no account filed
July 2001	Flash Flood	Saugatuck	$50,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Saugatuck	$25,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Saugatuck	$20,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down in Saugatuck and Fennville.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Saugatuck	$20,000	Several trees were blown down in Saugatuck and Allegan by thunderstorm wind gusts, as reported by area law enforcement.
June 2001	Hail	Saugatuck	$10,000	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Saugatuck	$5,000	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Saugatuck	$5,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Saugatuck	-	A trained weather spotter reported a 81 mph wind gust measured by his local anemometer. The spotter also reported a tree was downed across Michigan Highway 89 in the southern part of Saugatuck Township.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Saugatuck	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph in Saugatuck.
April 1998	Hail	East Saugatuck	-	no account filed
August 1993	Hail	Saugatuck	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allegan 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
Navigation Structures at Saugatuck Harbor	1.7 miles	2001
Saugatuck Gap Filler Annex	2.6 miles	2022
Saugatuck Pump House	2.6 miles	2015
All Saints' Episcopal Church	2.8 miles	1984
Leiendecker's Inn-Coral Gables	2.9 miles	2009
Warner P. Sutton House	3.0 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001418 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Allegan County	All 33 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.