Built in 1841 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
From the record
“The Fairfax House is a historic structure in Rock Hill, Missouri. The house is owned by the City of Rock hill and is currently resting near the north east corner of the intersection of McKnight Road and Manchester Road.”
Wikipedia article Fairfax House (Rock Hill, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1841, Greek Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.04000280- 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
1 since 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fairfax House
in 2007, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
62 workings within 5 miles of Fairfax House: 59 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Rock Hill, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.
Several large tree limbs and trees were reported downed in a swath from Webster Groves/Shrewsbury southeast through Marlborough and Wilbur Park/Affton.
There was a wide swath of sporadic damage due to thunderstorm winds which occurred over portions of Webster Groves. One area occurred along East Lockwood Avenue. At the Eden Theological Seminary, a large rotted tree was blown down along with several large branches. Several trees were also damaged on the northwest corner of the Webster University campus. Another large tree branch was down near the bus stop at the corner of East Lockwood Ave. and Bompart Avenue. Around three fourths of a mile further north, a large tree fell onto a house near the corner of North Bompart Ave. and Greeley Ave. Two blocks further to the north near the corner of North Bompart Ave. and Clark Ave., a large tree fell on a wooden deck which contained a storage room. A car and the corner of an adjacent house were also damaged. All other damage found during the survey consisted of small downed tree limbs.
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.
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.
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