Westerman Lumber Office and House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Westerman Lumber Office and House is a historic building in Montgomery, Minnesota, United States. The private, commercial structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on March 15, 1982.”
Wikipedia article Westerman Lumber Office and House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Le Sueur 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 201 S. 1st St., Montgomery, 56069
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Le Sueur County MRA
City. Montgomery city
National Register reference number. 82004702 - 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

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montgomery, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Montgomery	-	Report of multiple trees down near the high school in Montgomery.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Montgomery	-	Large healthy pine tree snapped about 15 feet above ground, with its top resting on a house. This was near the intersection of 3rd Street NE and Linden Avenue. Large limbs snapped nearby.
August 2025	Funnel Cloud	Montgomery	-	A trained spotter reported a brief funnel cloud near the intersection of MN-99 and 145th Ave in eastern Le Sueur county.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Montgomery	-	Several trees were uprooted north of Montgomery.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Montgomery	-	Several trees and power lines were blown down in Montgomery, and southeast of Montgomery, Minnesota.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Montgomery	-	Numerous trees and power lines were downed. Six sheds at a lumber company collapsed.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Montgomery	-	Trees down. Windows blown out. Estimated windspeed.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Montgomery	-	Large number of mature trees snapped and uprooted. Farm buildings and severe crop damage reported six miles southeast of Montgomery.
May 2022	Hail	Montgomery	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Montgomery	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Montgomery	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Montgomery	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Montgomery	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Montgomery	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Montgomery	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Montgomery	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Montgomery	-	no account filed
July 1997	Flash Flood	Montgomery	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Montgomery	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Sueur 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

5 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
Montgomery Commercial Historic District	under 500 feet	2021
Hilltop Hall	0.2 miles	1982
Dodd Road Discontiguous District	4.8 miles	2003
Hotel Broz	7.3 miles	1982
First National Bank	7.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004702 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Le Sueur County	All 28 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.