John Rowe House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The John Rowe House in Jasper, Minnesota, United States, is described as a "common bungalow type expressed in uncommon material - locally quarried Sioux quartzite." The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. John Rowe, a quarry man, clad the house in local Sioux quartzite after purchasing the home in 1903 for $1,000.”
Wikipedia article John Rowe House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Pipestone County · listed in 1980 · 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. Rowe, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 200 E. 2nd St., Jasper, 56144
When was it listed? March 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Pipestone County MRA
Township. Eden township
National Register reference number. 80002118 - 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.

The ground it stands on

93 words

This property stands in Eden Township. An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Eden Township - 93 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of John Rowe House in 2009, burning about 7 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
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
14 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Pipestone County

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 John Rowe House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Jasper Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Old Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pipestone County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jasper, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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
May 1993	Hail	Jasper	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pipestone 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Bauman Hall	0.5 miles	1980
Stordahl Building	0.5 miles	1980
John M. Poorbaugh Block	0.6 miles	2023
Gerber Hospital and Garage	0.6 miles	1980
Jasper School Building	0.7 miles	2019
Split Rock Bridge	3.5 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002118 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pipestone County	All 16 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.
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.