Riverside Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Riverside Hotel is a historic former hotel in St. It was originally built around 1860 as a residence, then expanded into a hotel beginning in 1891.”
Wikipedia article Riverside Hotel (St. Francis, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Anoka County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3631 Bridge St., St. Francis, 55070
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. building
City. St. Francis city
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 79001193 - 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.

The ground it stands on

12,939 words

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.

Fires near this property

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Riverside Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 307 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	68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
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

Every fire recorded in Anoka 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	H. G. Leathers House	under 500 feet	1979
	Sparre Barn	6.5 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001193 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.

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.