Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
“The Noerenberg Estate Barn is a historic barn on a Lake Minnetonka estate in Orono, Minnesota. It is one of only a few surviving farm buildings built on Lake Minnetonka during the Country Place Era.”
Wikipedia article Noerenberg Estate Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 192 National Register listings published here for Hennepin County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Noerenberg Estate Barn between 1999 and 2004, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 November 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 October 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orono, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2002: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orono | - | Few trees down. |
| September 2000 | Hail | Orono | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orono | - | no account filed |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Thompson Summer House | 1.1 miles | 1998 |
| Minnetonka Beach Water Tower | 1.1 miles | 2019 | |
 | Peter Gideon Farmhouse | 3.5 miles | 1974 |
 | MINNEHAHA (steamboat) | 3.7 miles | 2021 |
| Excelsior Commercial Historic District | 3.8 miles | 2021 | |
 | Great Northern Railroad Depot | 3.9 miles | 1981 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000527 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Hennepin County | All 192 listed properties in this county. |
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