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Photograph of Norwood Hills Country Club
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Norwood Hills Country Club

Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Norwood Hills Country Club, formerly known as North Hills Country Club, is a country club located in Jennings, Missouri. Norwood Hills Country Club has a rich tradition and history dating back to the 1920s, when Norwood found its beginning as North Hills Country Club.”

Wikipedia article Norwood Hills Country Club, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2005 · category: District · built in 1922.

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

The listing

  • Address. 1 Norwood Hills Country Club Dr., Ferguson, 63121
  • When was it listed? February 2005
  • Category. district
  • Township. Normandy township
  • When was it built? 1922
  • National Register reference number. 05000084 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Norwood Hills Country Club between 2006 and 2014, burning about 1 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/undetermined2

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
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Norwood Hills Country Club: 10 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Clay, 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
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1Clay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Evans and Howard Mine Number FiveClayPast Producer
Prospect Hill Cement PlantStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayProducer
Cavanaugh QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Heman Construction Co Quarry No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hill-O'Mera Construction Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lamb QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mound City Construction Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stifel Quarry Number TwoStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferguson, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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
November 2024Heavy RainFerguson-A trained spotter measured 9.52 inches of storm total rain. Light rain was still falling at the time of the observation.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindFerguson-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindFerguson-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees. One tree was blown down in Ferguson blocking a roadway. Another tree was blown down in Spanish Lake Park blocking one of the roads in the park.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindFerguson-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines. Also, a power pole was snapped off.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindFerguson-A large tree was blown down on a home causing moderate damage on Elizabeth Street just south of I-270. No one in the home was injured.
May 2004HailFerguson-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
September 2003Thunderstorm WindFerguson-Amateur radio spotters reported scattered trees down across North St. Louis County, primarily in the Ferguson area. One home suffered minor damage due to a downed tree.
April 2011HailFerguson-no account filed
March 2006HailFerguson-no account filed
April 2003HailFerguson-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFerguson-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindFerguson-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Miles A. Seed Carriage House1.2 miles1987
Wilson Price Hunt House1.5 miles1980
Wildwood House1.6 miles2006
John C. and Georgie Atwood House1.7 miles2018
Glen Echo Historic District1.9 miles2007
Ferguson School Central School1.9 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000084 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis CountyAll 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.
  • 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.