Built in 1883 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
“Leathers House is a historic house in St. It was originally built on a site near the Rum River around 1883.”
Wikipedia article H. G. Leathers House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Anoka County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1883, Victorian architecture.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on St. Francis City in With the Colors from Anoka County, published 1919 names St. Francis. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The Columbus Farmers' club, Cedar Commercial club, St. Francis club. Progressive club, Centerville Farmers' club, Crooked Lake Farmers' club, Constance Farmers' club. Bethel Farm Bureau club. Round Lake Farmers' club. Get Together Farmers' club and Blaine Farmers' clubs all passed resolutions denouncing the efforts of the "Non-Partisan League" to breed trouble in Anoka County. And yet the hired agents of this organization continued to seek entry into the county in the hope of spreading their doctrines here. It may be added that they never did succeed in fooling but a very few of the farmers of the county.
Passage source: With the Colors from Anoka County, published 1919.
the command of the Headquarters company. Fiftyone members of the Home Guard band met at Lake George on August 18th to rehearse. F. E. Tillburg donated the pavilion, lunch and cigars for the men. Band men were present from Cambridge, Braham, St. Francis, Elk River, Columbia Heights, and an afternoon concert was given.
Passage source: With the Colors from Anoka County, published 1919.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on St. Francis City - 12,939 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of H. G. Leathers House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 311 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 were 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 | 70 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Riverside Hotel | under 500 feet | 1979 |
 | Sparre Barn | 6.4 miles | 1980 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79001192 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Anoka County | All 20 listed properties in this county. |
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