Christopher Borgerding House

Built in 1904 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Christopher Borgerding House is a historic house in Belgrade, Minnesota, United States. It was built from 1904 to 1905 for an early settler of Belgrade who became a successful businessman and platted an expansion to the town.”
Wikipedia article Christopher Borgerding House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Stearns County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1904, Colonial Revival architecture.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Borgerding, Christopher, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Washburn Ave., Belgrade, 56312
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Stearns County MRA
City. Belgrade city
When was it built? 1904
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 82003039 - 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.

The ground it stands on

125 words

The chapter on Belgrade City in History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 names Belgrade. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The Belgrade Tribune, published by W. P. Lemmer, is the representative of the southwestern section of the county. It is in its nineteenth year, according to the volume number, but the writer has been unable to obtain any information regarding its history. The Tribune of today is a well-edited and enterprising paper.

Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Belgrade City - 125 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Christopher Borgerding House between 2000 and 2006, burning about 190 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
16 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 October 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 January 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Stearns 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 Christopher Borgerding House: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Olson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stearns County

Storms near this property

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belgrade, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 12 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Belgrade	-	Fire department reported winds near 70 mph.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Belgrade	-	There was a delayed report that a tarp was needed to cover a damaged roof on a local nursing home.
July 2023	Hail	Belgrade	-	The hail size was based on a picture on social media.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Belgrade	-	Several trees were blown down near Belgrade.
August 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Belgrade	-	Several storm chasers documented a tornado that started in Belgrade. It knocked over several trees and numerous large branches in town, and took a few shingles and some soffit off a house. It then moved north-northeast out of town, across open fields, and dissipated.
September 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Belgrade	-	A tornado knocked down several dozen trees, with some landing on cars and sheds. One tree landed on a mobile home. The tornado also destroyed a storage building (the building had been moved from another location and was still in the process of being made ready for business when the tornado came and blew it across the road).
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Belgrade	-	Dozens and possibly more than 100 trees were felled in Belgrade, just to the south of a tornado. A storm survey determined this was due to rear flank downdraft winds associated with the Belgrade tornado.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Belgrade	-	A few dozen trees were damaged, the roof of an open sided shed was blown off, and several corn fields were damaged. This area may have been an earlier beginning point of the Belgrade tornado, but damage was too scant to be certain, and therefore this damage has been listed as thunderstorm wind damage.
July 2016	Heavy Rain	Belgrade	-	A trained spotter measured 4.00 inches of rainfall near Belgrade.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Belgrade	-	Several one to three foot diameter trees were blown down, and some damaged area power lines.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Belgrade	-	Several large trees were blown down from north of Belgrade, to Elrosa, Minnesota.
May 2008	Hail	Belgrade	-	Hail reported at Stearns and Kandiyohi County line along Highway 71 and County Road 198.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Belgrade	-	Six to eight inch diameter tree limbs severed.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Belgrade	-	Measured by MNDOT sensor along Highway 55.
June 2005	Funnel Cloud	Belgrade	-	Law enforcement reported a funnel cloud at the intersection of county roads 4 and 59.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Belgrade	-	Numerous trees down in Belgrade. Gust measured by MNDOT Road Weather System 3 ESE Belgrade; observation indicated the severe wind lasted 10 minutes.
July 2002	Hail	Belgrade	-	Ground turned white.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Belgrade	-	Trees and power lines toppled.
August 1999	Tornado (F1)	Belgrade	-	Roof partially off small cafe. Siding peeled off and lumber tossed around a lumber yard. Large steel tank blown off trailer.
July 2023	Hail	Belgrade	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Belgrade	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Belgrade	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Belgrade	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Belgrade	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Belgrade	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Belgrade	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	Belgrade	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Belgrade	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stearns 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 82003039 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stearns 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.