Serbian Home

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Serbian Home is a two-story brick building, cultural and historic center in South Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was built in 1924 and functioned as a meeting place and community center for Serbian immigrants who worked in the meatpacking industry.”
Wikipedia article Serbian Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Dakota County · listed in 1992 · 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. 404 3rd Ave. S., South St. Paul, 55075
When was it listed? March 1992
Category. building
City. South St. Paul city
National Register reference number. 92000257 - 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

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Serbian Home between 1996 and 2017, burning about 6 acres 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
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
13 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2017	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 October 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Serbian Home: 7 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sulfur, Kaolin. 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	Recorded
(Facility) Northwestern Refinery	Sulfur	Plant
Twin City Brick Co. Clay Pit	Kaolin	Producer	Kaolinite
Dakota County Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
Twin City Brick Co Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Cottage Grove Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Noltiemeyer Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pine Bend Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Riggs Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Standard Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Standard Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Dakota 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

6 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
Stockyards Exchange	0.5 miles	1979
St. Stefan's Romanian Orthodox Church	0.7 miles	2004
Luther Memorial Church	1.0 miles	2025
Farmers Union Central Exchange Second Headquarters Building	1.8 miles	2021
George W. Wentworth House	1.9 miles	1979
Reuben Freeman House	4.7 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000257 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dakota County	All 40 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.