Red Lake County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Red Lake County Courthouse, located at 124 Langevin Avenue Red Lake Falls, Red Lake County in the U.S. state of Minnesota is a red brick Beaux Arts building featuring a small dome at each corner. Originally the building also had a large central dome, but it was removed in the 1940s.”
Wikipedia article Red Lake County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Red Lake County · listed in 1983 · 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. 124 Langevin, Red Lake Falls, 56750
When was it listed? May 1983
Category. building
City. Red Lake Falls city
Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
National Register reference number. 83000941 - 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

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Red Lake County Courthouse in 2016, burning under an acre 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
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Glacial Ridge	DITCH 64

Every fire recorded in Red Lake County

Storms near this property

49 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Lake Falls, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 26 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 3 tornado. 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
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	$110,000	An airplane hanger and a crop dusting airplane were destroyed by the strong wind.
June 2002	Lightning	Red Lake Falls	$100,000	Lightning hit the county courthouse, which also houses the sheriff's department. The department's computers, phone lines, and 911 system were damaged.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	$25,000	A pole barn sustained roof and door damage and a communications tower was blown over.
May 2001	Hail	Red Lake Falls	$20,000	Eight windows in a house, 2 garage windows, and a car window were broken by the large hail.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	$15,000	A 3 stall garage was destroyed.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Red Lake Falls	$5,000	Several sections of farm land were flooded by excessive rainfall. A few farm access roads were also under water.
July 2006	Tornado (F0)	Red Lake Falls	$2,000	The tornado continued intermittently along the 2.5 mile damage track. Numerous large tree branches were broken off in shelterbelts along the track and large hay bales were tumbled around. Peak winds were estimated at about 70 mph.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Red Lake Falls	$2,000	Street flooding was reported in Red Lake Falls.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	$200	A large tree was blown down.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	-	Roofing panels blown off 3 buildings on the west side of Red Lake Falls. Time estimated from radar.
August 2025	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	Hail fell for 15 minutes with largest hail stones up to 2 inches in Red Lake Falls. Time estimated by radar.
September 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	-	The wind gust was estimated.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	-	Many large tree branches were blown down. Large sections of roofing were peeled off a warehouse on the south side of town.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	-	Multiple trees were blown down in Red Lake Falls, knocking out power to some areas.
August 2011	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	Mainly dime to nickel sized hail fell along with a few quarter sized hailstones.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	-	Numerous large tree branches were broken down and several trees were uprooted by violent wind bursts. The winds were accompanied by a steady downpour of rain.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	-	Many large trees were snapped off or uprooted.
September 2006	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	Hail covered the ground.
July 2006	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	The large hail broke windows and damaged siding. Crop damage was also reported.
June 2002	Flash Flood	Red Lake Falls	-	Numerous rural roads were under water.
June 2002	Flash Flood	Red Lake Falls	-	Roads were washed out by the heavy rains.
August 2002	Flash Flood	Red Lake Falls	-	Street flooding was reported.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	-	A 77 mph wind gust was reported, with many trees blown down. The roof of a manufacturing building was torn off and several grain bins were damaged. 2000 customers were without power as 50 power poles were downed. Another building roof was torn off and thrown 300 feet into another building. A mobile home was destroyed.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	-	Large branches were broken off by the wind.
July 1997	Flash Flood	Red Lake Falls	-	Several roads were flooded due to the heavy rain.
September 2021	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
July 1997	Tornado (F0)	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed
July 1997	Tornado (F0)	Red Lake Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Red Lake 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 83000941 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Red Lake County	All 2 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.