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Photograph of Eugene Saint Julien Cox House
Photograph by Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Eugene Saint Julien Cox House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Eugene Saint Julien Cox House, now known as the E. Julien Cox House, is a Carpenter Gothic-style house in St.”

Wikipedia article Eugene Saint Julien Cox House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Nicollet County · listed in 1970 · 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. Cox, Eugene Saint Julien, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 500 N. Washington Ave., St. Peter, 56082
  • When was it listed? November 1970
  • Category. building
  • City. St. Peter city
  • National Register reference number. 70000305 - 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

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Eugene Saint Julien Cox House in 1996, burning about 290 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 November 1996Arson/incendiarism290 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Nicollet County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Eugene Saint Julien Cox House: 16 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Caroline & Moses QsuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Gopher State Sandstone MillSilicaProducer
Gopher State Silica PitSilicaProducerSandstone
Ed Swarthout IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ed Swarthout IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gopher State Sandstone Quarry No 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gopher State Sandstone Quarry No1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Henroy Komstz PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lundin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Blue Earth Co Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Nicollet 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
John A. Johnson House0.4 miles1983
Emily and Stephen Schumacher House0.4 miles2000
St. Peter Central School0.5 miles1980
Church of the Holy Communion-Episcopal0.5 miles1983
Sarah and Thomas Montogomery House0.5 miles2000
Nicollet House Hotel0.5 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000305 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nicollet CountyAll 24 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.