Henry Avenue Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 120,210,211,218,220,226,230,310,314,320 and Henry Ave., Manchester, 63011
When was it listed? January 2003
Category. district
Township. Lafayette township
National Register reference number. 02001692 - 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

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Henry Avenue Historic District: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kempf Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Osage Hills Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manchester, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2013: 9 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail. 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
May 2008	Hail	Manchester	-	Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail on Manchester Road just west of I-270.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	-	Amateur radio spotters reported three large tree limbs down along Clayton Road near Kirksville Road.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	-	The roof of a gasoline station was damaged at the intersection of Highway 141 and Manchester Road.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	-	Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	-	Storm spotters reported trees down from thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 1998	Hail	Manchester	-	Amateur radio spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
June 2013	Hail	Manchester	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Manchester	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Manchester	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Manchester	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Manchester	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Manchester	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Manchester	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Manchester Methodist Episcopal Church	0.3 miles	1983
Lyceum, The	0.3 miles	1979
Jarville	1.8 miles	1984
Barretts Tunnels	3.2 miles	1978
Pappas, Theodore, A., House	3.4 miles	1979
Barretts Tunnels	3.6 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001692 in Record Group 79.
St. Louis County	All 663 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.