Congregational Church of Ada

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Congregational Church of Ada is a historic church on E. 2nd Avenue and 1st Street in Ada, Minnesota, United States. Designed by Charles Waterbury, a brother-in-law of congregation member Fred Hampson, it was built in 1900 for a cost of $6,000 to serve the needs of a congregation meeting in a schoolhouse at the time.”
Wikipedia article Congregational Church of Ada, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Norman County · listed in 1984 · 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. E. 2nd Ave. and 1st St., Ada, 56510
When was it listed? November 1984
Category. building
City. Ada city
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 84000236 - 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

47 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ada, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 26 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 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
June 2000	Flash Flood	Ada	$1,000,000	Numerous county and township roads were washed out from the heavy rain. Street flooding was reported in both Ada and Gary.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	$200,000	Power was out in the Ada area with damaged transformers and trees down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	$50,000	The strong wind peeled off the roof on the city's public works building. Debris from the falling roof damaged 4 vehicles inside. Another city building was also damaged, as well as many trees around town.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	$20,000	Corn fields were churned and flattened by strong winds.
June 2002	Tornado (F1)	Ada	$20,000	A roof was torn off a farm building and scattered in nearby trees.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	$20,000	Large branches were blown down in Ada.
August 2001	Flash Flood	Ada	$5,000	Basement flooding was reported.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	$3,000	Trees were blown down and a window was blown out.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	$3,000	Trees were blown down in Ada.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	$2,000	Several large trees were uprooted due to the strong wind.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	$500	Several trees were knocked down near Ada.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	$500	Trees were blown over in Ada. A power pole was also blown over west of town, knocking out power to the western half of the county for 7 hours.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	Measured gust at NDAWN mesonet station 210019 1 north Ada MN.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	Measured gust at the Ada NDAWN 10 foot sensor.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	Tree branches and power lines were blown down.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	The wind gust was measured by a NDSU NDAWN mesonet sensor.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	Strong winds ripped pieces of siding off a house.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	The wind gust was measured by the Ada NDAWN mesonet station.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	The wind gust was measured at the Ada NDAWN mesonet site. Several large tree branches and limbs were blown down across northern McDonaldsville Township and within the town of Ada. Southeast of Ada, the roof panels were peeled of a large 60 by 100 foot steel clad shop, causing the interior rafters to collapse.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	Several large trees and tree branches were blown down by the wind.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	The wind gust was measured by a NDSU NDAWN mesonet sensor.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	Numerous trees were blown down in Ada. Some trees blocked roads or streets.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	A 100 foot tall cottonwood tree three feet wide at the base was blown down by downburst wind.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	A 65 mph wind gust was measured by a MNDOT RWIS near Ada.
July 2002	Flash Flood	Ada	-	Street flooding was reported in Ada.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	A 75 mph wind gust was reported, which caused some roof damage.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	A 64 mph wind gust was measured at a Minnesota DOT RWIS site.
June 2020	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ada	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Ada	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Norman 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Norman County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1983
	Ada Village Hall	0.2 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000236 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Norman County	All 4 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.