Commercial Bank Building

Built in 1892. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Dawson Bank Museum is a museum operating inside of the former First National Bank Building in Dawson, Minnesota. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Dawson Bank Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lac qui Parle County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1892.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off US 212, Dawson, 56232
When was it listed? January 1982
Category. building
Township. Riverside township
When was it built? 1892
National Register reference number. 82002978 - 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.

Storms near this property

42 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dawson, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 24 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2007	Flood	Dawson	$425,000	Spring snow melt with rapid warming brought ice jams and flooding to portions of West Central Minnesota. On the 14th, Lac Qui Parle county officials reported flooded township roads west of the intersection of roads 212 and 75 (along the West Fork of the Lac Qui Parle River). The ice jam responsible for the flooding was west of the city of Dawson. The Dawson Sentinel reported plenty of damage to the Helgeson Bridge southeast of Dawson. Three quarters of the bridge was toppled.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	$250,000	Severe winds destroyed a machine shop north of Dawson.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	A metal shed was destroyed and several trees were broken.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Roof covering was partially removed from a house, part of the the top of a grain bin was blown away, dozens of trees were broken, and part of a large metal shed lost its roof and walls.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Numerous trees and power lines blown were blown down near Dawson.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Several large trees were uprooted or snapped above ground level near Dawson.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Several large tree branches were blown down in Dawson.
July 2011	Hail	Dawson	-	In addition to the hail, some crop damage was reported from the Emergency Manager.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Many large trees toppled across town, along with large branches. Several large trees also reported downed across local roads. Several automobiles also reported blown into ditches.
September 2007	Hail	Dawson	-	Houses and vehicles sustained damage.
April 2006	Hail	Dawson	-	Hail covered the ground.
July 2006	Tornado (F0)	Dawson	-	A grove of trees was damaged in the tornado's path, along with a few shingles and planks that were torn off a barn, including a small amount of siding ripped off a house. The tornado was accompanied by large hail, very heavy rain, and damaging rear flank downdraft wind.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Rear flank downdraft adjacent to the tornado downed numerous large trees and caused minor building damage.
May 2005	Hail	Dawson	-	A deputy sheriff reported quarter sized hail.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	A large tree was downed along Chestnut Street.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Path up to 1 mile wide. Crop Damage. Large trees down. Power lines down.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Trees down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Large tree branches down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Few trees down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Numerous trees down. Corn flattened. Estimated windspeed.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Trees, power lines down. Winds estimated.
May 1998	Hail	Dawson	-	Many cars damaged at automobile lots. Roof, siding and shed damage.
July 1997	Hail	Dawson	-	Large tree also sheared in half due to strong winds.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson	-	Tree damage.
May 2022	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed
October 1996	Hail	Dawson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lac qui Parle 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
	Dawson Armory and Community Building	under 500 feet	1995
	Dawson Carnegie Library	under 500 feet	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002978 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lac qui Parle County	All 9 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.