Adolph Levin Cottage

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Adolph Levin Cottage, also called the Levin Cabin, is a historic vacation property on Kabetogama Lake in St. It contains a log cabin built in 1937 for two friends, Dr.”
Wikipedia article Adolph Levin Cottage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1937.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Levin, Adolph, Cottage - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Kabetogama Narrows near Ash R. Maintenance Dock, Kabetogama Lake, 56649
When was it listed? June 2011
Category. building
Also known as. Tourism and Recreational Properties in Voyageurs National Park 1880-1950 MPS
Unorganized territory. Northwest St. Louis
When was it built? 1937
National Register reference number. 11000361 - 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Adolph Levin Cottage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony	17
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
17 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	FEEDEM
3 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	HEADLIGHT ISLAND
3 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	MOOSE BAY WF
15 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	HORNET
12 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Voyageurs National Park	PERSEIDS
11 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	PETERSON

Every fire 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.

Listed places nearby

4 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
I.W. Stevens Lakeside Cottage	5.1 miles	2011
Monson's Hoist Bay Resort	5.1 miles	2011
Jun Fujita Cabin	7.8 miles	1996
Kabetogama Ranger Station District	8.0 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000361 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.