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Photograph of George W. Wentworth House
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George W. Wentworth House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Wentworth House is a large Queen Anne style home, that was built in 1887 in West Saint Paul in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Wentworth was an emigre from England who traded in horses; he was also involved in local politics, working to organize the city of South Saint Paul.”

Wikipedia article George W. Wentworth House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Dakota 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.
  • Listed as. Wentworth, George W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1575 Oakdale Ave., West St. Paul, 55118
  • When was it listed? December 1979
  • Category. building
  • City. West St. Paul city
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 79001237 - 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

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of George W. Wentworth House between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2020Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesSAND DUNES
21 October 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of George W. Wentworth House: 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sulfur, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Northwestern RefinerySulfurPlant
Twin City Brick Co. Clay PitKaolinProducerKaolinite
Dakota County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Twin City Brick Co PitClayPast Producer
Pine Bend Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standard Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standard Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dakota 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Luther Memorial Church1.0 miles2025
Farmers Union Central Exchange Second Headquarters Building1.3 miles2021
St. Stefan's Romanian Orthodox Church1.6 miles2004
Serbian Home1.9 miles1992
Stockyards Exchange2.0 miles1979
Henry H. Sibley House4.7 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001237 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dakota CountyAll 40 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.
  • 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.