Commercial Hotel

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 National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Front and Main Sts., Wabasso, 56293
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Redwood County MRA
Township. Vail township
National Register reference number. 80002146 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

403 words

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

Vail township is located in the central part of Redwood county, and embraces Congressional township 111-37. It is bounded on the north by Sheridan, on the east by New Avon, on the south by Waterbury and on the west by Granite Rock. A small branch of the Redwood river passes across the northwest corner of it. The Vesta-Sanborn branch of the Chicago and Northwestern crosses it from north to south and the Evan-Marshall branch of the same road passes across it from east to west. The surface is rolling, but marshy in the central part. The only village is Wabasso. The trading centers are Wabasso and Redwood Falls. There are four school houses. The predominating nationality is German.

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 Vail Township - 403 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wabasso, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabasso	$50,000	Numerous trees were uprooted between Wabasso and Wanda, Minnesota. A large grain bin was also blown down near Wabasso, Minnesota.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabasso	$25,000	A pole barn and several trees were blown down.
June 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Wabasso	-	This slow moving tornado was widely photographed and caught on video by multiple citizens and storm spotters. It hit several farmsteads, breaking or uprooting dozens of trees. One open air building on a feedlot was destroyed. Several machine sheds had doors blown out, and tin was peeled off the portion of several roofs.
April 2012	Funnel Cloud	Wabasso	-	Storm spotters sighted numerous funnel clouds across Redwood County for 15 to 20 minutes.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabasso	-	Numerous large branches down.
July 2018	Hail	Wabasso	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Wabasso	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Wabasso	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Wabasso	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Wabasso	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Wabasso	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Wabasso	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabasso	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Wabasso	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabasso	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabasso	-	no account filed

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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	District No. 8 School	5.3 miles	1980
	Chicago and North Western Railroad Depot	7.5 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002146 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.
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.