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Capt. John Oliver House

Built in 1849 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Captain John Oliver House, nicknamed Cedarlawn, is a historic house in Lakeland, Minnesota, United States, built in 1849. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and exploration/settlement.”
Wikipedia article Captain John Oliver House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1849, Greek Revival architecture.

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. Oliver, Capt. John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1544 Rivercrest Rd., Lakeland, 55043
When was it listed? December 1977
Category. building
Also known as. Washington County MRA (AD); Washington County MRA
City. Lakeland city
When was it built? 1849
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 77000772 - 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Capt. John Oliver House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 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
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
2 June 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1900181
7 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1900149
6 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2020157
4 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	46
2 May 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1900126
19 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2020093

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Capt. John Oliver House: 10 producers, 8 occurrences, 6 past producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Barton 769 Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Beyer Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bryan Smith Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mayer Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Red Brick Road Dolomite Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
South Cove Road Dolomite Deposit #1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
South Cove Road Dolomite Deposit #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Barton Pit No 713	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Barton Pit No 766 and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Carmichael Road Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeland, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 2 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
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeland	-	Trees and power lines downed.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeland	-	Numerous trees and power lines down. Some boat docks in Lakeland Shores were damaged.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
John T. Chyphers House	1.0 miles	1971
Mitchell Jackson Farmhouse	2.3 miles	1982
Newington Gilbert House	3.6 miles	1982
Erastus Bolles House	3.6 miles	1982
State Prison Historic District	3.8 miles	1986
Moritz Bergstein Shoddy Mill and Warehouse	4.6 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000772 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 42 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.
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.