Clark and McCormack Quarry and House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Clark and McCormack Quarry and House consists of a historic quarry and the adjacent residential estate of one of the owners in Rockville, Minnesota, United States. The Clark and McCormack Quarry was established in 1907, and was the source of Rockville Pink granite.”
Wikipedia article Clark and McCormack Quarry and House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Stearns County · listed in 1982 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. MN 23 at Pine St., Rockville, 56301
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. site
Also known as. Stearns County MRA
City. Rockville city
Architectural style. Georgian architecture
National Register reference number. 82003046 - 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

1,051 words

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

Rockville lies in the southeastern portion of the county, and embraces township 123 north, range 29 west. It has an area of 23,040 acres. The surface is undulating. Sauk River flows in a northeasterly direction across the northwest portion of the town, to the west of which lies a strip of prairie.. Mill Creek enters the township from the south, and joins Sauk River at the village of Rockville. In the center of the township, and along Mill Creek, the primary, or granitic, formation appears in place, and from this fact, the town derives its name. There are a large number of lakes in this town the largest of which is Grand Lake, a beautiful sheet of water, lying in the southern portion of the township. The next in size is Pleasant Lake, lying in the northeast corner.

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

The territory embraced in this town was a part of Maine Prairie until 1860, when Rockville was organized, and the first election held at the residence of M. Hansen, Sr.., on June 25. The first officers elected were: Supervisors, M. Hansen, Sr. (chairman), Nicholas Kirsch and John Harren; clerk, D. H. Spicer; assessor, William Decker; and justice of the peace, A. Smith.

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 Rockville City - 1,051 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Clark and McCormack Quarry and House between 2000 and 2013, burning about 2 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
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
27 April 2013	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 January 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Stearns County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Clark and McCormack Quarry and House: 8 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite, 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
Stommes Stearns County Sand & Grave	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cold Spring Crushing Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rockville Shop	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crystal Gray Quarry	Granite	Producer
Diamond Pink Quarry	Granite	Producer
Opalescent Quarry	Granite	Producer
Rockville Quarry No 1	Granite	Producer
Rockville Quarry No 2	Granite	Producer

Every working recorded in Stearns County

Storms near this property

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockville, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 10 hail, 4 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
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockville	-	Trees down in Rockville.
July 2016	Funnel Cloud	Rockville	-	This funnel was from the same storm that produced the Litchfield, Watkins, and rural Watkins tornadoes. Numerous storm chasers, spotters and law enforcement officers were watching the funnel, with no indication that it touched down.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockville	-	Several dozen trees were downed from a storm that would soon produce a tornado in Waite Park.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockville	-	Trees were downed at Grand Lake.
May 2014	Hail	Rockville	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Rockville	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Rockville	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Rockville	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Rockville	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Rockville	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Rockville	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockville	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Rockville	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Rockville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Rockville	-	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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Eugene Hermanutz House	4.5 miles	1982
Ferdinand Peters House	4.5 miles	1982
John Oster House	4.6 miles	1982
St. Benedict's Convent and College Historic District	6.2 miles	1989
Church of St. Joseph-Catholic	6.2 miles	1982
First State Bank	6.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003046 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.