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Photograph of 3R Landmark School Museum
Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lonsdale Public School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The 3R Landmark School Museum is located in a former two-story schoolhouse in Lonsdale, Minnesota. The museum run by the 3R Landmark Corporation opened in 1986 and features museum exhibits on local history while the second floor is preserved as an original classroom from when the building served as a public school for Independent School District #76 from 1908 to 1948.”

Wikipedia article 3R Landmark School Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Rice 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. 3rd Ave., SW, Lonsdale, 55046
  • When was it listed? August 1979
  • Category. building
  • City. Lonsdale city
  • National Register reference number. 79001254 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lonsdale Public School: 2 producers. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Concrete Materials Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Rice County

Storms near this property

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lonsdale, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 20 hail, 4 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1998Tornado (F2)Lonsdale$20,000,000Four homes and 6 businesses severely damaged. Street department building damaged. 20 farms damaged or destroyed.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLonsdale$30,000Roof partially off house, and its garage also collapsed. Several sheds down, and numerous trees were toppled.
June 2020FloodLonsdale-Local officials closed Union Lake Trail between Garfield and Gonvick due to flood waters.
May 2017HailLonsdale-The city of Lonsdale had hail, up to nickel size, fall for 5 minutes.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-A 7 inch diameter tree limb was blown down in Lonsdale.
June 2016HailLonsdale-There were numerous reports of large hail from north to east of Lonsdale, with the largest measured at 1.25 inches.
August 2016Flash FloodLonsdale-A few streets in Lonsdale were closed due to high water. Flood waters also affected local businesses and homes with basement flooding.
June 2012Flash FloodLonsdale-Several roads were closed in northeast Rice County due to water over the road. Specifically, County Road 3, west of Webster, and County Road 42 and Kellogg Ave, south of Highway 19 was closed, with the shoulders washed out.
July 2008HailLonsdale-Reported at intersection of County Rd. 4 and County Rd. 1.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-A shed was damaged. Trees were downed along Arizona Street NW.
April 2004HailLonsdale-Quarter to tennis ball sized hail fell.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Lonsdale-Tornado touched down briefly in open field. No damage reported.
August 1999Tornado (F0)Lonsdale-A few trees down. Continuation of the Le Sueur County tornado.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-Shed blown down. Estimated windspeed.
July 2023HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2021HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2021HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2021HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2021HailLonsdale-no account filed
August 2021HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2012HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2012HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2012HailLonsdale-no account filed
July 2011HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2007HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2007HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2007HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2005HailLonsdale-no account filed
August 2002HailLonsdale-no account filed
March 1998Tornado (F1)Lonsdale-no account filed
May 1998HailLonsdale-no account filed
July 1997Flash FloodLonsdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rice 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

4 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
Trondhjem Norwegian Lutheran Church1.7 miles2001
Church of the Most Holy Trinity (Catholic)2.9 miles1997
Den Svenska Evangeliska Lutherska Christdala Forsamlingen4.8 miles1995
Church of the Annunciation-Catholic7.5 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001254 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rice CountyAll 76 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.
  • 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.