Photograph of Swany White Flour Mills — Photograph by Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Freeport Roller Mill and Miller's House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Swany White Flour Mills is a flour manufacturing and wholesaling company based in Freeport, Minnesota, United States. It was established in the late 19th century and has been owned by the same family since 1903.”
Wikipedia article Swany White Flour Mills, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Stearns 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

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Mary St., Freeport, 56331
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Stearns County MRA
City. Freeport city
National Register reference number. 82003043 - 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

129 words

This property stands in Freeport City. History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Freeport City - 129 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Freeport Roller Mill and Miller's House in 1997, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Stearns County

Storms near this property

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freeport, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2012	Hail	Freeport	$100,000	Large hail stones, up to two inches in diameter, pelted the town of Freeport, Minnesota for several minutes and caused damage to electrical lines, and cars. The hail also accumulated up to 7 inches deep in some areas of town.
May 2014	Flash Flood	Freeport	-	There were numerous reports of flooded roadways between Albany and Freeport. This included County Roads 157 and 172 which were closed during the height of the storm. Also there were reports of debris partially covering county roads from local creeks near the same areas. The flooded roads also sustained some damage. Two to three feet of flowing water was reported on the west side of Albany along County Road 157.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Freeport	-	Parts of County Road 157 were closed due to flooding from morning rainfall.
September 2005	Hail	Freeport	-	Dime to quarter sized hail fell.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Freeport	-	Several large trees downed, including one which fell onto a house, breaking through the roof. Estimated windspeed.
July 2023	Hail	Freeport	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Freeport	-	no account filed
June 2002	Funnel Cloud	Freeport	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Freeport	-	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.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Church of the Sacred Heart (Catholic)	0.1 miles	1991
Anton Gogala Farmstead	4.1 miles	1982
Church of St. Boniface	5.8 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003043 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.
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.