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Photograph of Ames-Florida House
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Ames-Florida House

Built in 1856 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Ames-Florida-Stork House is a historic house museum in Rockford, Minnesota, United States, on the Crow River. The house was built in 1856 by New England immigrants George F.”

Wikipedia article Ames-Florida House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 192 National Register listings published here for Hennepin County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1856, Greek Revival architecture.

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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 8131 Bridge St., Rockford, 55373
  • When was it listed? October 1979
  • Category. building
  • City. Rockford city
  • When was it built? 1856
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 79003714 - 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

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ames-Florida House between 2000 and 2015, burning about 149 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
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
21 May 2015Debris and open burning50 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenance87 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE SARAH
26 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenance3.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 October 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ames-Florida House: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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
Delano Granite Works PlantGraniteProducer
Bursch Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Giese Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hanover PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hennepin 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

1 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
District No. 107 School5.8 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79003714 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hennepin CountyAll 192 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.