Waverly Village Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Waverly Village Hall is a municipal event hall in Waverly, Minnesota, United States, built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) from 1939 to 1940. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 for its local significance in the themes of architecture, entertainment/recreation, and government/politics.”
Wikipedia article Waverly Village Hall (Waverly, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Wright County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4th St. N bet. Atlantic and Elm Ave., Waverly, 55390
When was it listed? June 2002
Category. building
City. Waverly city
National Register reference number. 02000613 - 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.

The ground it stands on

852 words

The chapter on Waverly City in History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915 names Waverly. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The village was formerly called Waverly Station to distinguish it from Old Waverly, a pioneer village which in the early days flourished about a mile away. Waverly Station was laid out by the railroad company on their land in the southwest quarter of section 33, at about the time that regular trains eommenced operating in this locality in 1869. A railroad station was erected that year, and a grain house the next. The first store was opened by T. R. Barrett, who operated it for a few years, and then changed it to a hotel under the name of the Keystone House. The next store was that of George Doerfler, removed from Old Waverly, Thomas Clarke also opened a store. Patrick Fallihee opened a store in the spring of 1870. In 1879 he erected a large two-story building with a hall on the upper floor, and his store at that time beeame one of the largest and finest then in the county, In 1871, William Quinn & Co. opened a general store, but soon changed it to an agricultural implement supply house. In 1873, J. K. Cullen came from Watertown and opened a general store. John Giblin and others followed. The Waverly House was erected as a dwelling by <A. Kommers in 1874 and was sold to H. C. Morneau who enlarged it and established the hotel.

Passage source: History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915.

A special election called by the trustees of the village of Waverly for the purpose of ascertaining by ballot whether the village of Waverly should continue as then incorporated under a special act of the legislature or become reincorporated under the General Statute of Minnesota, was held on Monday, March 16, 1885, Due notice of said election having been given and the object of said election having been fully set forth in notices, polls opened at 10 a. m. and closed at £ p.m. Number of votes polled, 41; for reincorporation, +1; against, pone. The village of Waverly was therefore declared reincorporated under the General Statutes of Minnesota and same recorded in the village records. By order of the village council. H. Ch. Mornean, president; J. K. Cullen, Jolin Giblin, P. E. Barrett, trustees. Attest, George Straub, village recorder."'

Passage source: History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Waverly City - 852 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Waverly Village Hall in 2001, burning about 64 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
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
4 November 2001	Debris and open burning	64 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Wright 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 Waverly Village Hall: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
	Carlson Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wright County

Storms near this property

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waverly, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2023	Hail	Waverly	-	Hail that fell was mostly dime to nickel size, but some of the hailstones were as large as quarters. Due to the increased hail/rain rate, small drifts of hail were also observed.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	Public works relayed a report of a tree down in Waverly.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	A few trees were blown down in Waverly.
May 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Waverly	-	After moving in from Carver County, the tornado dissipated shortly after entering Wright County, but it still caused large limbs to be broken on about one dozen trees.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	Numerous large tree limbs were blown off near Waverly.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	Large tree limbs were blown down near Waverly, on County Road 8.
August 2011	Heavy Rain	Waverly	-	A trained spotter measured 2.10 inches of rainfall in the past two hours.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	Barn roof collapsed.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	Branches were downed.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	Trees down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997	Tornado (F1)	Waverly	-	Damage path in the town of Waverly was 1 block wide by 7 blocks long. Garages and barns blown down. Roofs ripped off.
July 2023	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
September 2007	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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

4 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
Hawkins, Dr. E. P., Clinic, Hospital and House	2.8 miles	1979
Marysville Swedesburg Lutheran Church	3.5 miles	1979
Howard Lake City Hall	5.0 miles	1979
District No. 48 School	6.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000613 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wright County	All 22 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.