George D. Dayton House

Built in 1890 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The George Draper Dayton House was built in 1890 in Worthington, Minnesota, United States. George Dayton hired the Sioux Falls architect Wallace L.”
Wikipedia article George D. Dayton House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Nobles County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1890, Colonial Revival architecture, by Wallace L. Dow.

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. Dayton, George D., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1311 4th Ave., Worthington, 56187
When was it listed? December 2003
Category. building
City. Worthington city
When was it built? 1890
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
Architect. Wallace L. Dow
National Register reference number. 03001336 - 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.

Storms near this property

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worthington, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	$1,000,000	Thunderstorm winds blew parts of the roofs off a junior high school building and an apartment building, and overturned a semi truck. The winds caused widespread tree damage, including several large trees uprooted or blown down. Tree debris blocked several roads, and made the golf course at the country club unusable. Power lines were blown down and other lines were knocked down by falling tree debris, causing power outages. Tree debris also damaged several vehicles and buildings. At least one garage was destroyed by the winds. Several signs, including large billboards, were blown down. The winds damaged crops, especially corn, but the amount of crop damage could not be determined.
August 1994	Tornado (F1)	Worthington	$500,000	Several buildings on two farmsteads were destroyed. A number of hogs were killed and trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	$300,000	Thunderstorm winds of unknown speed caused widespread tree damage, blew down a 50 thousand bushel steel grain bin, destroyed a barn and a hog building, and blew over two tractor-semitrailers. The winds also caused undetermined crop damage.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. One tree fell through the roof and top two floors of a home.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew a semi off Interstate 90, and also caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
June 2020	Flash Flood	Worthington	$5,000	One vehicle became stalled in high water, with six reports of street flooding in the city. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
May 2003	Lightning	Worthington	$5,000	Lightning struck a large tree, destroying the tree. The lightning also damaged appliances in at least two homes, and caused a power outage over a small area.
July 2001	Lightning	Worthington	$2,000	Lightning struck and split a large tree. Most of the tree fell and damaged siding on a house, but just missed a parked car.
May 2022	Hail	Worthington	-	Hail was mostly pea-sized, but a few stones were as large as quarters. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2022	Hail	Worthington	-	Hail varied between quarter and golf ball size.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	A large tree was blown down across a road by thunderstorm winds.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	Wind gusts broke off a small tree.
June 2020	Flash Flood	Worthington	-	Up to two feet of water was reported over Marine Avenue near the high school.
October 2020	Hail	Worthington	-	Hail up to quarter size fell for about 10 seconds. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	Measured at the airport in Worthington, MN.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large limbs blown down.
October 2013	Hail	Worthington	-	Large hail damaged vehicles. The amount of damage was not known.
May 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Worthington	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
May 2009	Hail	Worthington	-	Large hail covered the ground.
July 2009	Hail	Worthington	-	Large hail dented vehicles and cracked windshields. The amount of damage was not known.
April 2006	Flash Flood	Worthington	-	Heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches caused flooding of roads, basements, and other low areas as storm sewers backed up. Several vehicles stalled on flooded roads.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Worthington	-	Heavy rain caused flooding of several streets, with water 3 feet deep at one intersection.
September 2005	Flash Flood	Worthington	-	Heavy rain caused widespread street flooding, with basement flooding also reported. Water was two to three feet deep on some roads, and numerous vehicles stalled.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The amount of damage was not known.
August 2004	Flash Flood	Worthington	-	Heavy rain caused flooding of streets and other low areas with roads up to three feet under water.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	A Thunderstorm wind gust was measured by automatic RWIS (road weather information system) equipment.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. Numerous limbs were down, some on cars and houses. Some trees on the east side of town were uprooted.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	Thunderstorm winds tore the roof and most of the outside walls off a 40 by 108 foot feeder pig barn.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Worthington	-	Flash flooding resulting from very heavy rain flooded streets, small streams, culverts, and other low places. Some flooding of basements also occurred.
July 1995	Hail	Worthington	-	Hail caused considerable crop damage with about 10,000 acres of corn and soybeans affected.
August 2025	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
August 2022	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
April 2021	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
September 2015	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
October 2013	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthington	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Worthington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nobles 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
Nobles County War Memorial Building	0.1 miles	2017
Hotel Thompson	0.2 miles	1984
Citizens' National Bank	0.3 miles	1982
Dr. E. A. Kilbride Clinic	0.3 miles	1977
Worthington Armory and Community Building	0.4 miles	2017
Worthington Band Shell	0.7 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001336 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nobles County	All 13 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.
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.