First National Bank of Adams

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The First National Bank of Adams is a historic commercial building on Main Street in Adams, Minnesota, United States. Built in 1924, it was designed by the noted Prairie School architects Purcell & Elmslie.”
Wikipedia article First National Bank of Adams, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Mower County · listed in 1986 · 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. 322 Main St., Adams, 55909
When was it listed? March 1986
Category. building
Township. Adams township
Architect. Purcell & Elmslie
National Register reference number. 86000442 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of First National Bank of Adams: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Koball Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Anderson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Osmundson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Mower County

Storms near this property

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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
June 2014	Heavy Rain	Adams	$30,000	Heavy rains caused damage to a high school in Adams. Plugged drains on the roof caused water to fill air vents which then damaged the ceiling, some lighting and a piano inside the school.
August 2007	Flood	Adams	$20,000	Law enforcement officials reported some roads washed out or still under water.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	$15,000	Wind damage occurred to a barn and outbuilding near Adams.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Adams	$10,000	Sandbagging occurred in Adams and County Roads 4 and 7 near Adams were closed as water from several branches of the Little Cedar River were out of their banks. Flood waters covered much of the business district in Adams with little damage occurring to those that were able to sand bag. For those that didn't, water reached into the buildings creating minor damage.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	$8,500	no account filed
March 2005	Tornado (F0)	Adams	$7,500	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Adams	$4,000	Hail occurring at intersection of County Highway 7 and 4.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	$1,500	no account filed
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Adams	$1,000	A brief tornado was witnessed by the Le Roy Fire Department storm spotters.
May 2006	Hail	Adams	$800	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Adams	-	Ping pong ball sized hail fell just south of Adams.
July 2016	Funnel Cloud	Adams	-	A funnel cloud was sighted near the Iowa state line southwest of Adams.
July 1995	Tornado (F2)	Adams	-	A tornado touched down in Adams and moved northeast touching down several times. Several buildings were damaged or destroyed. Many trees uprooted. A church in Adams lost its steeple and bell tower.
June 2003	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	-	no account filed
July 1997	Funnel Cloud	Adams	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mower 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

1 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
	Freund Store	5.0 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000442 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mower County	All 10 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.
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.