K.J. Taralseth Company

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Taralseth Company was a prominent retail business in Warren, Minnesota, United States, in operation 1888-1959. The original building it occupied burned down in 1910, so the owners commissioned a new building the following year which is still standing.”
Wikipedia article K. J. Taralseth Company, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Marshall 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Taralseth, K.J., Company - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 427 N. Main St., Warren, 56762
When was it listed? September 2002
Category. building
City. Warren city
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 02000938 - 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

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of K.J. Taralseth Company between 1995 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
12 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 May 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 October 1995	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this property

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warren, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 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 1996	Flash Flood	Warren	$100,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Warren	$75,000	A roof was blown off a building in Warren and a greenhouse was destroyed. A tree was also blown over on a house and three mobile homes sustained damage.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Warren	$30,000	A farm drive-through shed was blown down along with numerous tree branches.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Warren	$5,000	Strong winds blew a tree onto a house.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Warren	$1,000	Tree damage was reported in Warren.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Warren	-	Report of tree damage throughout town in Warren. Time estimated from radar.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Warren	-	Public reports large tree uprooted in Warren. Wind gust estimated.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Warren	-	Tree branches were blown down.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Warren	-	Large tree branches and several sections of fencing were blown down.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Warren	-	One nine inch diameter tree and several large branches were blown down in town.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Warren	-	A large limb was snapped off a tree.
July 2009	Hail	Warren	-	Winds also gusted up to 35 mph.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Warren	-	The power was knocked out in Warren.
July 2011	Hail	Warren	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Warren	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Warren	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Warren	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Warren	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Warren	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Warren	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Warren	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Warren	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000938 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marshall County	All 3 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.