Honner-Hosken House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Redwood County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. North and Main Sts., North Redwood, 56283
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Redwood County MRA
City. Redwood Falls city
National Register reference number. 80002138 - 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

4,866 words

The chapter on Redwood Falls City in The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 names North Redwood. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Among the beautiful and useful public buildings to which the citizens of Redwood Falls point with pride is the Carnegie library, erected in 1904 at an approximate cost of $10,000. The base of the structure is North Redwood granite, the superstructure being pressed brick. The building is open to the reading public seven days and five evenings each week. It is supported by taxation under the management of nine trustees chosen by the mayor. Elizabeth Connor ably officiates as librarian.

Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.

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 Redwood Falls City - 4,866 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Honner-Hosken House in 2014, burning about 1 acre 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 July 2014	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Honner-Hosken House: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Clay, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, Free. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Minnesota River Valley Clays	Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, Free	Occurrence
Morton Pit	Kaolin	Producer	Gibbsite, Illite, Kaolinite, Montmorillonite, Quartz
Norton Clay Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Redwood County

Storms near this property

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Redwood, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	North Redwood	-	Empty 27000 pound grain bin blown over.

Every storm recorded in Redwood 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
Ramsey Park Swayback Bridge	1.7 miles	1980
Redwood Falls Retaining Wall Roadside Development Project	1.9 miles	2012
Bank of Redwood Falls Building	2.0 miles	1980
Scenic City Cooperative Oil Company	2.1 miles	1980
Redwood Falls Carnegie Library	2.1 miles	1980
H. D. Chollar House	2.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002138 in Record Group 79.
Redwood County	All 23 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.