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Photograph of Cole Memorial Building
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A.L. Cole Memorial Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Cole Memorial Building is a historic municipal event hall in Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1937 with New Deal funding, generating jobs and revenue for a community suffering the effects of the Great Depression.”

Wikipedia article Cole Memorial Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Crow Wing County · listed in 2004 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Cole, A.L., Memorial Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 4285 Tower Square, Pequot Lakes, 56472
  • When was it listed? May 2004
  • Category. building
  • City. Pequot Lakes city
  • National Register reference number. 04000530 - 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

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of A.L. Cole Memorial Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 358 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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
Debris and open burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use25
Arson/incendiarism18
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Natural1

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
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2008Recreation and ceremony7.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of A.L. Cole Memorial Building: 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 10Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 11Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 12Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 2Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 3Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 4Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this property

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pequot Lakes, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 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
April 2025HailPequot Lakes-Numerous hailstones between three quarters of an inch to 1.1 inches were observed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-Trees were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-Twelve inch diameter trees were blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-Numerous trees were blown down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-Several trees were blown down in Brainerd and Pequot Lakes.
April 2025HailPequot Lakes-no account filed
April 2025HailPequot Lakes-no account filed
April 2025HailPequot Lakes-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-no account filed
July 2003HailPequot Lakes-no account filed
July 2003HailPequot Lakes-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-no account filed
October 1997Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodPequot Lakes-no account filed
July 1996HailPequot Lakes-no account filed
August 1995HailPequot Lakes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crow Wing 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
H. H. Broach House0.7 miles1980
Pequot Fire Lookout Tower0.8 miles2017
Wilford H. Fawcett House5.1 miles1980
Minnewawa Lodge6.9 miles1980
Minnesota and International Railroad Freight House and Shelter Shed7.5 miles1980
Grand View Lodge7.6 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000530 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crow Wing CountyAll 31 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.