Built in 1915. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Sunset Beach Hotel, also referred to as Peters' Sunset Beach Resort, is a historic resort hotel in Glenwood Township, Minnesota, five miles (8 km) southwest of Glenwood, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Lake Minnewaska, three structures of the private, commercial resort were placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on February 11, 1982.”
Wikipedia article Sunset Beach Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Pope County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1915.
National Register reference number.82002998- 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
3 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sunset Beach Hotel
between 1999 and 2013, burning about 20 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 burning
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Sunset Beach Hotel: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Glenwood, the town this property stands in, in 55 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 25 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 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.
Several large trees, and powerlines were blown down in Glenwood, some were blocking roads. South of Kensington, several larger tree branches were blown down. Other areas along highway 55 had some tree branches blown down. Trees and powerlines also blown down on the east side of Grove Lake, with two reported pontoons flipped over on Lake Minnewaska.
Brief touchdown on the southeast shore of Lake Minnewaska. Tornado flipped over a camper and knocked down trees, some of which fell on the roof of a cabin.
A dirt berm had to be constructed on Highway 28-29 to stop flood waters from flowing across the highway near the fairgrounds on the northwest side of town. Low lying property and a few roads nearby were flooded. An estimated 2.5 inches of rain fell in 30 minutes in Glenwood.
A tornado originated on the east side of Lake Reno in Pope County. At first, it damaged about a dozen trees, but quickly became more intense and broke or uprooted several hundred trees before entering Douglas County. Maximum winds for the Pope County portion were estimated at 105 mph.
Several trees and power lines were downed. A truck was damaged on First Avenue SW by a downed tree. A home on First Avenue NE was struck by a pine tree that was snapped off at its base. A city vehicle shed was blown apart on the north side of town and the roof was deposited 100 yards away. Several downed trees blocked South Lakeshore Drive. Several pontoon boats and the lifts they were attached to were blown into Lake Minnewaska.
Trees were downed at Lake Pelican and along the eastern shore of Lake Minnewaska. One tree was downed onto a pickup truck. Trees was also downed in the city of Glenwood, including several that were felled in Barsness Park. In addition, trees were downed at Minnewaska Golf Club just west of town.
County wide flooding. After two bouts of heavy rain on June 22 and 23, three to four additional inches fell, resulting in widespread street and basement flooding in Glenwood. The sewer system was also overloaded. Four familes in the northwest section of Glenwood were evacuated when the water level reached a depth of four feet in their neighborhood.
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
6 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.
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.
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