BlockFrom the record
One of 38 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
W. W. Smith House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Smith, W. W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 101 Linden St., SW, Sleepy Eye, 56085
- When was it listed? December 1979
- Category. building
- Also known as. Brown County MRA
- Township. Home township
- Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Neoclassical architecture
- National Register reference number. 79001211 - 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.
Storms near this property
32 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sleepy Eye, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Sleepy Eye | $100,000 | Photographed by storm chaser. The tornado destroyed a barn and an old shed. |
| June 1997 | Lightning | Sleepy Eye | $15,000 | Significant damage to farmhouse. |
| May 2025 | Funnel Cloud | Sleepy Eye | - | Multiple trained spotters provided photos of funnel cloud 5 miles SE of Sleepy Eye, MN. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | Large tree branch down in Sleepy Eye MN. |
| October 2023 | Hail | Sleepy Eye | - | Reports of golf ball to tennis ball size hail damaged windshields 3 miles west of Sleepy Eye, MN. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | Several trees were blown down near Sleepy Eye. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a misovortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. It was not possible to correlate the crop damage with any radar circulation. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a misovortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. It was not possible to correlate the crop damage with any radar circulation. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | There were several trees and many large branches blown down in the south half of Sleepy Eye, just east if Highway 4. A few trees and branches fell on houses and vehicles. A damage survey by the NWS was inconclusive, as the damage had been cleaned up quickly. The south to north path did seem to broaden out somewhat. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | A few trees were blown down in Sleepy Eye. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | Several large tree branches were blown down in the southeast side of Sleepy Eye. Most of the damage was kept in an 8-9 block area in the far southeast side of town. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | Crops were damaged due to severe straight line winds around Sleepy Eye. In addition, tree branches were blown down in the town of Sleepy Eye, which blocked part of Highway 4. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | A large tree was blown down near Sleepy Eye. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | Outflow from a thunderstorm knocked down a few trees. Leaves were plastered onto the side of two nearby houses. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | A storm spotter reported a wind gust of 71 MPH. A vehicle was nearly blown off a road. |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | A few trees were downed. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Sleepy Eye | - | Tornado touched down just west of an oats field, moved across a grassy field, crossed the Cottonwood River, then dissipated. There were a few broken trees near the Cottonwood River, but no damage was caused to any structure. The oats were just coming out of the ground and were laid down only for about 12 hours before returning to normal growth. |
| May 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Sleepy Eye | - | The first of three confirmed funnel clouds and one tornado on May 14 developed near Sleepy Eye. The airmass was very cold aloft, a weak surface trough was draped over south central Minnesota, and partly cloudy skies during the late morning hours enabled the development of scattered thunderstorms. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | Several trees down, including one on roof. Fence knocked down. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | Several large trees toppled. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | Tree down across portion of Highway 4. Estimated Windspeed. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Sleepy Eye | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Sleepy Eye | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Sleepy Eye | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Sleepy Eye | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sleepy Eye | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Sleepy Eye | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Sleepy Eye | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Sleepy Eye | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Eye | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Sleepy Eye | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Chicago and North Western Depot | 0.4 miles | 1992 |
| Sleepy Eye Milling Company | 0.4 miles | 1991 | |
 | Winona and St. Peter Freight Depot | 0.4 miles | 1979 |
 | C. Berg's Hotel | 0.4 miles | 2012 |
| Lampert Lumber Company Line Yard | 6.2 miles | 1979 | |
| District No. 50 School | 7.0 miles | 2017 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79001211 in Record Group 79. |
| Brown County | All 38 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.
- 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.