Built in 1895 (Carpenter Gothic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“The Thayer Hotel is a historic hotel building in Annandale, Minnesota, United States, built in 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 for its local significance in the theme of commerce.”
Wikipedia article Thayer Hotel (Annandale, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Wright County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1895, Carpenter Gothic.
National Register reference number.78001573- 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.
There are two large and well established banks which draw business for miles around. This fact. alone is a good index toe the tone of business throughout the community. The village is lighted with electric lights furnished by its own plant. It has its own paper known as the Annandale Advocate, printed by one of the townsmen. A very pleasant amusement house, The Lyric, furnishes interesting programs through the week.
The townsite of Annandale was platted in October, 1886. Quite a number of lots were sold on Oak avenue, the same fall and winter. The first man who erected a building on his lots was John H. Buri, who opened up his hardware store January 1, 1887.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Thayer Hotel
between 1998 and 2009, burning about 27 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Thayer Hotel: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Annandale, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 22 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A home on Maple Avenue suffered an electrical fire after being struck by lightning. Damage to electrical appliances, wiring, and attic insulation totaled $20,000.
Approximately 800 homes in and around Annandale were damaged due to hail, according to Dwight Gunnarson, general manager of Huber Construction Co., which was tasked for repairing many of the damaged homes. Information provided by the Annandale Advocate newspaper.
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
1 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.
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.
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