Lucas Troendle House

Built in 1897 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Lucas Troendle House is a historic house in Mapleton, Minnesota, United States. The house, also known as Solie's Castle, was built in 1896 in Queen Anne style.”
Wikipedia article Lucas Troendle House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Blue Earth County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1897, Queen Anne style.

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. Troendle, Lucas, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2nd and Silver Sts., Mapleton, 56065
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Blue Earth County MRA
City. Mapleton city
When was it built? 1897
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 80001959 - 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

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mapleton, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Mapleton	$10,000	A storm survey concluded that severe straight-line winds moved through the town of Mapleton, and areas to the southeast that caused extensive tree damage, and power poles to be blown down. However, no structural damage to buildings or houses was found other than some minor damage to shingles at two homes.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Mapleton	$5,000	A large tree limb broke off, and damaged a camper and truck.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Mapleton	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted a mature willow tree from a churchyard.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mapleton	-	Measured by a MNDOT Road Weather Information System.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Mapleton	-	A large tree blew down in Mapleton and damaged a transformer.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Mapleton	-	A storm survey concluded that severe straight-line winds caused numerous large trees to be uprooted or blown down northwest of Mapleton. One home sustained minor damage to some shingles.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mapleton	-	Large tree branches were blown down near County Road 30 on the east side of Mapleton, including downed power lines.
March 2010	Flood	Mapleton	-	County Roads 7, and 191 near Mapleton were closed due to flooding.
July 2010	Heavy Rain	Mapleton	-	An observer measured 2.68 inches of rainfall in six hours.
September 2010	Heavy Rain	Mapleton	-	A trained spotter measured 6 inches of rainfall overnight.
May 2007	Flash Flood	Mapleton	-	Mapleton police reported severe street flooding throughout the city of Mapleton, with a few stalled cars. Drainage ditches outside of town were outside their banks. 5.8 inches rain were reported from 1600 to 2036 CST.
May 2007	Hail	Mapleton	-	Corn crop reported smashed into the ground in Mapleton.
July 2007	Hail	Mapleton	-	Small branches also reported down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mapleton	-	Trees were downed in a 6 block area of town.
June 2005	Hail	Mapleton	-	Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2001	Tornado (F0)	Mapleton	-	Touched down in open field. No damage reported.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Mapleton	-	Damage induced by rear flank downdraft per NWS damage survey. A few dozen trees down.
June 1997	Hail	Mapleton	-	About 6,000 acres of crops sustained severe hail damage in Blue Earth county.
June 2022	Hail	Mapleton	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Mapleton	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Mapleton	-	no account filed
October 2005	Hail	Mapleton	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Mapleton	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Mapleton	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Mapleton	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Mapleton	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Mapleton	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Mapleton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blue Earth 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Main Street Commercial Buildings	under 500 feet	1980
Mapleton Public Library	0.2 miles	2009
Sterling Congregational Church	5.5 miles	1980
Zieglers Ford Bridge	7.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001959 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Blue Earth County	All 28 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.