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George H. Haven House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The George Haven House, also known as The Oaks, is a historic building located in Chatfield, Minnesota, United States. The Italianate house was built in 1874, and the Greek Revival cottage, also known as the Lucian Johnson House, was completed in 1892.”

Wikipedia article George Haven House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Fillmore County · listed in 1982 · 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. Haven, George H., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 132 Winona St., Chatfield, 55923
  • When was it listed? November 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Fillmore County MRA
  • City. Chatfield city
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82000559 - 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of George H. Haven House between 1994 and 2003, burning about 42 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
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 1997Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 1997Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of George H. Haven House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fillmore QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this property

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chatfield, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Flash FloodChatfield$50,000Thunderstorms with heavy rain dropped 3 to 5 inches of rain across the northwest portions of Fillmore County. This caused some flash flooding to occur, which was mainly water going over roads. Water from Mill Creek flooded a park in the southwest side of Chatfield and went over County Road 2.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindChatfield$8,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindChatfield$5,000The public reported several large tree branches blown onto a house.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindChatfield$2,000Trees were blown down in Chatfield.
August 2007Flash FloodChatfield$2,000Mudslides were reported along Highway 52.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindChatfield$750no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindChatfield$750no account filed
May 2025HailChatfield-The public reported quarter sized hail 1 mile southwest of Chatfield.
August 2025HailChatfield-The public reported quarter sized hail in Chatfield. The report was relayed via social media.
August 2025HailChatfield-The public reported quarter sized hail 1 mile east-southeast of Chatfield. The report was relayed via social media.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindChatfield-The public reported a large tree split in half in Chatfield.
April 2023HailChatfield-Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported in Chatfield.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindChatfield-An estimated 70 mph wind gust occurred west of Chatfield.
June 2017HailChatfield-Quarter sized hail was reported in Chatfield.
August 2010FloodChatfield-Water was over County Road 2 west of Chatfield.
September 2010Heavy RainChatfield-The storm total rainfall was 4.75 inches.
May 2004HailChatfield-no account filed
May 2004HailChatfield-no account filed
August 2004HailChatfield-no account filed
August 2004HailChatfield-no account filed
June 1999HailChatfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Lovell, Ellen, M., Houseunder 500 feet1982
Chatfield Public Library0.2 miles1982
Samuel Thompson Dickson House0.3 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000559 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fillmore CountyAll 36 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.