Peter Gideon Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Peter Gideon (1820-1899) was a farmer near Excelsior, Minnesota, United States, who was responsible for breeding apples that could withstand Minnesota's climate. Gideon's farmhouse, now within the boundaries of Shorewood, Minnesota, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Peter Gideon Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 192 National Register listings published here for Hennepin County · listed in 1974 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Gideon, Peter, Farmhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 24590 Glen Rd., Shorewood, 55331
When was it listed? September 1974
Category. building
City. Shorewood city
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 74001019 - 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Peter Gideon Farmhouse in 2004, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shorewood, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Shorewood	-	A trained spotter reported multiple large trees blown down in Tonka Bay; one tree had a diameter of 20 inches.
September 2005	Hail	Shorewood	-	Hail estimated around two inches in diameter was pictured in a local newspaper.
September 2020	Hail	Shorewood	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Shorewood	-	no account filed
May 1998	Funnel Cloud	Shorewood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hennepin 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
MINNEHAHA (steamboat)	0.9 miles	2021
Excelsior Commercial Historic District	1.2 miles	2021
Excelsior Public School	1.3 miles	1980
Allemarinda and James Wyer House	1.4 miles	1977
Thompson Summer House	2.4 miles	1998
Minnetonka Beach Water Tower	2.5 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001019 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.

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.