Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“The Good Templars Hall is a Greek Revival style public building that was built in 1858 in Nininger in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The Nininger Chapter of the Independent Order of Good Templars, a temperance group, built the two-story hall to have a place for socializing without alcohol.”
Wikipedia article Good Templars Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 40 National Register listings published here for Dakota County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79001234- 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.
Fires near this property
2 since 2012
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Good Templars Hall
between 2012 and 2018, burning about 85 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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 Good Templars Hall: 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
Hastings, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 20 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 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.
Hail was reported to be the size of hockey pucks. Many houses and vehicles were damaged in and around Hastings. Damage amount reported by the Hastings Star-Gazette.
There were 8 homes that had trees fall onto their roofs and cause damage, and about 1500 people lost power. All this damage occurred in a small area of town (about a 6-8 block radius) from 15th Street south to the Vermillion River.
In the Industrial Park, on Spiral Blvd, there was a storage building leveled, and other assorted trees snapped. Most of the tree damage was on the south end of Hastings.
The Emergency Manager of Dakota County reported several pine trees blown down along with 8 diameter tree branches on the south side of Highway 316 in Hastings.
A two foot diameter tree was snapped in half at 19th street and Vermillion in the southern part of Hastings, Minnesota. In addition, a tree was sheared in half and blocked part of Fraser Street in the northeast part of Hastings.
A two foot diameter tree was blown down south of Hastings. This was additional damage from the severe thunderstorm that produced a tornado south of this location.
Several power lines and trees up to 2 feet in diameter were downed. A few downed trees damaged homes. The hardest hit area was just north of County Road 47 and south of Highway 55.
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.
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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