BlockFrom the record
One of 50 National Register listings published here for Winona County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Rollingstone Village Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 98 Main St., Rollingstone, 55969
- When was it listed? April 2021
- Category. building
- City. Rollingstone city
- National Register reference number. 100006357 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
2,095 wordsThis property stands in Rollingstone Township. History of Winona County, published 1883 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
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 Rollingstone Township - 2,095 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
29 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Rollingstone Village Hall between 1992 and 2009, burning about 69 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 June 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 June 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1992 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 May 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 May 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Winona District of the Upper Mississippi Complex | WINONA |
| 6 April 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Rollingstone Village Hall: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biesanz Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Winona Aggregate Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kohner Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Kreidermacher Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Mathy Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rollingstone, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Hail | Rollingstone | $150,000 | Public reported tennis ball hail caused holes in siding of a house near Minnesota City. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Rollingstone | $78,000 | Local officials reported 2 inch diameter hail near Rollingstone. |
| September 2019 | Lightning | Rollingstone | $10,000 | A house fire near Rollingstone was started by lightning. The house sustained minimal damage. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rollingstone | $5,000 | Vehicles and a deck were damaged when large tree branches landed on them. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rollingstone | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in Rollingstone, temporarily blocking traffic on South Main Street. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Rollingstone | - | Emergency management reported quarter sized hail in Rollingstone. |
| October 2023 | Hail | Rollingstone | - | A volunteer observer reported ping pong ball sized hail in Rollingstone. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Rollingstone | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Rollingstone. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Rollingstone | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Rollingstone | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Church of the Holy Trinity-Catholic | 0.3 miles | 1984 |
 | Bridge No. L1409 | 4.5 miles | 1990 |
 | Trinity Episcopal Church | 5.1 miles | 1984 |
 | Madison School | 7.6 miles | 2012 |
 | Jefferson School | 7.8 miles | 2012 |
 | Winona and St. Peter Engine House | 7.9 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006357 in Record Group 79. |
| Winona County | All 50 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.