Naniboujou Club Lodge

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Naniboujou Club Lodge is a resort and restaurant built as part of a private club on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Cook County, Minnesota, United States, about 15 miles (24 km) east of Grand Marais. It is named after Naniboujou, a character from the Cree, and the lodge's décor has both Native American and Art Deco influences.”
Wikipedia article Naniboujou Club Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1928, by Holstead & Sullivan.

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.
Address. E of Grand Morals on US 61, Grand Marais, 55604
When was it listed? October 1982
Category. building
Unorganized territory. East Cook
When was it built? 1928
Architect. Holstead & Sullivan
National Register reference number. 82000558 - 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Naniboujou Club Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
19 July 1992	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 June 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 June 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	JUDGE
27 May 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 May 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 May 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	ARROWHEAD

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Marais, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
August 1996	Lightning	Grand Marais	1 killed, 1 hurt	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Grand Marais	-	The hail fell at Sea Gull Lake.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Marais	-	Numerous trees were blown down three miles north of the Gunflint Lodge.
June 2004	Lightning	Grand Marais	-	A lightning strike caused a cabin to catch fire.
July 2003	Hail	Grand Marais	-	The hail fell at Sea Gull Lake.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Marais	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. The wind speed is estimated.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Marais	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Grand Marais	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Marais	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Marais	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Marais	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000558 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cook County	All 13 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.
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.