Winona and St. Peter Freight Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Peter Freight Depot in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota is a former station on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The station was originally built by the Winona and St.”
Wikipedia article Winona and St. Peter Freight Depot, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Brown 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Oak St., NE, Sleepy Eye, 56085
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. building
Also known as. Brown County MRA
Township. Home township
National Register reference number. 79001216 - 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 1996

Regional 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

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Sleepy Eye Milling Company	under 500 feet	1991
Chicago and North Western Depot	0.1 miles	1992
C. Berg's Hotel	0.1 miles	2012
W. W. Smith House	0.4 miles	1979
Lampert Lumber Company Line Yard	6.0 miles	1979
District No. 50 School	6.8 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001216 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.