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Photograph of Grand Army of the Republic Hall
Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Booth Post No. 130-Grand Army of the Republic Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Grand Army of the Republic Hall, also known as Booth Post No. 130, is an historic Carpenter Gothic building in Grand Meadow, Minnesota, United States. The hall was built in 1891 and on June 13, 1986, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Grand Army of the Republic Hall (Grand Meadow, Minnesota), 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Booth Post No. 130--Grand Army of the Republic Hall - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. S. Main St. between First and Second Sts., Grand Meadow, 55936
  • When was it listed? June 1986
  • Category. building
  • City. Grand Meadow city
  • National Register reference number. 86001278 - 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

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Booth Post No. 130-Grand Army of the Republic Hall between 2004 and 2020, 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/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 December 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Mower County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Booth Post No. 130-Grand Army of the Republic Hall: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grand Meadow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Mower County

Storms near this property

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Meadow, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 3 tornado, 3 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2021Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow$80,000One side of a roof was blown off a large commercial building and trees were blown down in a path of wind damage southeast of Grand Meadow.
November 2005LightningGrand Meadow$75,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow$35,000no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow$15,000A tree was blown down across State Highway 16 east of Grand Meadow. The driver of a vehicle was unable to avoid the fallen tree and ran into it.
April 1995Tornado (F0)Grand Meadow$15,000A small tornado briefly touched down damaging a farm building. Debris was scattered over an area three-quarters of a mile wide.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow$10,000Trees were blown down on a farm north of Grand Meadow. One of the trees landed on the house.
June 2022HailGrand Meadow$9,000Hail ranging from the size of a quarter up to a golf ball fell in Grand Meadow.
August 2024Tornado (EF0)Grand Meadow$5,000This EF-0 tornado stayed mostly in open fields five miles north of Taopi, Minnesota. Tree and light structural damage was reported at one residence near the end of the tornado's path.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow$3,000Several trees were blown down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow$2,000no account filed
June 2008HailGrand Meadow$1,500no account filed
June 2008FloodGrand Meadow$500Heavy rainfall amounts of 1.5 inches caused flooding of some roads in Grand Meadow.
July 1994HailGrand Meadow$500no account filed
June 1998Flash FloodGrand Meadow$400no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow-Law enforcement reported trees down in Grand Meadow.
July 2023HailGrand Meadow-Public reported ping pong ball sized hail near Grand Meadow.
July 2022Heavy RainGrand Meadow-A mesonet station in Brownsdale measured 5.55 inches of rain.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow-An 83 mph wind gust was measured south of Grand Meadow.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow-A few trees were blown down along 770th Ave.
June 2019HailGrand Meadow-Half dollar sized hail fell east of Grand Meadow near the Fillmore County line.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow-An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred east of Grand Meadow.
May 2013Heavy RainGrand Meadow-The COOP observer in Grand Meadow reported 2.21 inches of rain.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow-A wind gust of 61 mph was measured near Grand Meadow.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow-An estimated wind gust of 65 miles per hour occurred in Grand Meadow.
September 2010Heavy RainGrand Meadow-Total rainfall through the storm was 5.00 inches, falling over a two day period.
May 2008HailGrand Meadow-no account filed
May 2008HailGrand Meadow-no account filed
May 2008HailGrand Meadow-no account filed
May 2008HailGrand Meadow-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow-no account filed
June 2006HailGrand Meadow-no account filed
August 2005Funnel CloudGrand Meadow-no account filed
May 2004HailGrand Meadow-no account filed
June 2004Tornado (F0)Grand Meadow-no account filed
May 2000HailGrand Meadow-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudGrand Meadow-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGrand Meadow-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 PropertyDistance Listed
Exchange State Bank0.2 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001278 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mower CountyAll 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.
  • 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.