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Photograph of Carroll Jones House
Photograph by Michael Tomko, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jones, Carroll and Bessie E. (Caul), House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“(Caul) Jones House, also known as Poke's Cottage or The Stone House, is a private house located at 170 West Main Street in Marcellus, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1986 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”

Wikipedia article Carroll Jones House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Cass County · listed in 1997 · 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. 170 W. Main St., Marcellus, 49067
  • When was it listed? December 1997
  • Category. building
  • Township. Marcellus township
  • Architectural style. Dutch Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 97001482 - 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

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Jones, Carroll and Bessie E. (Caul), House between 2018 and 2019, burning about 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARCELLUS FD 0000040 - 2018
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002396 - 2019
22 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTEXAS CHARTER TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000308 - 2019
26 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARCELLUS FD 0000030 - 2019
25 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARCELLUS FD 0000029 - 2018
23 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARCELLUS FD 0000025 - 2018
23 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARCELLUS FD 0000027 - 2018
22 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARCELLUS FD 0000024 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this property

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marcellus, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMarcellus$15,000Pictures of a barn that sustained damage at Bradt and W Main St.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMarcellus$15,000Trees and power poles are down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMarcellus$12,500A severe thunderstorm downed a tree and several large limbs in the village of Marcellus. The downed tree landed on a vehicle parked at the corner of S. Centre and Dibble Street. Limbs and power lines were downed on N. Centre and North Streets and at the corner of Arbor and Snyder Street.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindMarcellus$5,000Trees downed in Marcellus.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-A trained spotter reported several small tree limbs down as well as a car rolled on its side for an unknown reason.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-Numerous reports of trees down in the area south of Marcellus.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 75 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph wind gust.
June 2013HailMarcellus-Law enforcement officials received several reports of quarter size hail.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-Pictures were posted on a local media outlets social media page of large tree branches being blown down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-A survey of damage indicated the start of a roughly one mile wide swath of wind damage across northeastern Cass county. Numerous trees were damaged as a result of a concentrated burst of wind that continued into St. Joseph county in Michigan. Winds were likely in the 70 to 75 mph range as the line of storms moved into St. Joseph county.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-Several trees were blown down.
July 2005Flash FloodMarcellus-Highway 40, just south of Marcellus, was flooded for several hours as 5 to 6 inches of rain fell between 430 pm and 9 pm EST. No injuries or rescues were reported due to the flooding.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-Trees down.
September 2025HailMarcellus-no account filed
April 2016HailMarcellus-no account filed
April 2016HailMarcellus-no account filed
May 2012HailMarcellus-no account filed
May 2000HailMarcellus-no account filed
August 1998HailMarcellus-no account filed
August 1998HailMarcellus-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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 PropertyDistance Listed
G. W. Jones Houseunder 500 feet1994
George Newton House7.8 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001482 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cass CountyAll 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.
  • 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.