William Ingersoll Estate

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The William Ingersoll Estate is a former summer home complex on an island in Sand Point Lake in the U.S. state of Minnesota, in what is now Voyageurs National Park. Ingersoll (1885-1973) was a wealthy philanthropist from Canton, Illinois.”
Wikipedia article William Ingersoll Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2011 · category: District · built in 1928, by E. F. Hodgson Co.

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 5 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Ingersoll, William, Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Ingersoll's Island, Crane Lake, 55725
When was it listed? June 2011
Category. district
Also known as. Tourism and Recreational Properties in Voyageurs National Park 1880-1950 MPS
Township. Crane Lake township
When was it built? 1928
Architect. E. F. Hodgson Co
National Register reference number. 11000360 - 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

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of William Ingersoll Estate between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 10 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
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Other causes	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
9 September 2003	Natural	1.5 acres	Voyageurs National Park	WAGNER
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	FARSIDE
21 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	SWANSON BAY
8 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	CONCHO
16 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	SHORELUNCH
8 July 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	TRIPOD
7 July 2020	Natural	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	STAEGE BAY

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crane Lake, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Crane Lake	2 hurt	Campers were injured by a tree falling on their tent at a campsite on Lady Boot Bay on Lac La Croix Lake. One young teenager was seriously injured with a broken pelvis and a dislocated shoulder. A middle-aged man suffered a dislocated shoulder.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Crane Lake	2 hurt	Two campers were injured from a tree falling on their campsite on Loon Lake.
July 2014	Flood	Crane Lake	$1,000	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Crane Lake	-	A few trees were downed by the storm with winds estimated at 60 mph.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Crane Lake	-	On the morning of July 19, 2021, between 10 and 10:30am CDT, a line of sub-severe thunderstorms caused a canoe with two occupants to capsize. Neither were wearing life jackets and one of the two occupants drowned. The incident occurred on Loon Lake east of Crane Lake, Minnesota, within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). Estimated wind speeds along the line of storms were 25-30 mph based on nearby observations.
August 2020	Hail	Crane Lake	-	Dime to quarter size hail fell for approximately 15 minutes.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Crane Lake	-	Trees were knocked down over a US Forest Service Road off the Echo Trail near Moose River.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Crane Lake	-	Numerous trees were blown down.
August 1995	Hail	Crane Lake	-	Damage to seaplane on Lac La Croix.
August 1995	Tornado (F0)	Crane Lake	-	Brief tornado touchdown on shore of Moose Lake.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Crane Lake	-	A line of thunderstorms with an isolated intense downdraft uprooted several medium-size young trees near the town of Crane Lake. A few of the trees fell on, and damaged, two automobiles.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Crane Lake	-	Public report of estimated 60-70 mph winds near Bear Island. The waves were so large, that they were crashing over the tops of boats.
August 2020	Hail	Crane Lake	-	no account filed
September 2017	Hail	Crane Lake	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Crane Lake	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Crane Lake	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Crane Lake	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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 11000360 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 126 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.