Photograph of Pietenpol Workshop and Garage — Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bernard H. Pietenpol Workshop and Garage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Pietenpol Workshop and Garage is a small building in Cherry Grove, Minnesota, United States, where aviation pioneer Bernard Pietenpol designed and built aircraft. The wood-framed structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.”
Wikipedia article Pietenpol Workshop and Garage, 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. Pietenpol, Bernard H., Workshop and Garage - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Hwy. 5, Spring Valley, 55975
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Fillmore County MRA
Township. Forestville township
National Register reference number. 82002949 - 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

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Bernard H. Pietenpol Workshop and Garage between 1993 and 2005, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
10 September 2003	Smoking	15 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 June 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 April 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2004	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 April 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Bernard H. Pietenpol Workshop and Garage: 28 past producers, 5 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Apenhorst Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Grabau Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rifle Hill Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
A Ramaker	Iron	Past Producer
Barr Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Bjortomt Mine	Iron	Past Producer
D Ruesink Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Dettmer Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Evers No 1 Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Fillmore County District Mines	Iron	Past Producer	WEATHERING RESIDUAL

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Valley, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Spring Valley	$6,000	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Spring Valley	$1,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Spring Valley	$500	no account filed
July 1997	Funnel Cloud	Spring Valley	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Spring Valley	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Spring Valley	-	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Spring Valley	-	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Spring Valley	-	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

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
	Forestville Townsite-Meighan Store	5.5 miles	1973
	Spring Valley Mausoleum	8.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002949 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fillmore County	All 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.