Nims Mansion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 2701 Finestown Rd., Oakville, 63129
When was it listed? October 2017
Category. building
Township. Oakville township
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
Architect. Maritz & Young
National Register reference number. 100001689 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

89 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Nims Mansion between 2005 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 were 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	58
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Natural	3

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
9 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Nims Mansion: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. 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 - Lead	Lead	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wickes Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Simpson South Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

30 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakville, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 22 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakville	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds peeled a large amount of siding from a home and caused damage to the roof trim.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs in Oakville.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a couple of small trees.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakville	-	Large tree was blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakville	-	Numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakville	-	A tree was blown down.
June 2005	Hail	Oakville	-	Amateur radio spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
April 2003	Hail	Oakville	-	Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail in south St. Louis County.
July 2000	Hail	Oakville	-	Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail in south St. Louis County.
April 1998	Hail	Oakville	-	Spotters reported 3/4 inch hail in south St. Louis County.
March 2025	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
April 2025	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
April 2024	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
November 2017	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
February 2017	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakville	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Oakville	-	no account filed
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakville	-	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

5 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
Robert Koch Hospital	5.5 miles	1984
Jefferson Barracks VA Hospital	6.2 miles	2015
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery	6.4 miles	1998
Jefferson Barracks Historic District	7.4 miles	1972
Alswel	7.9 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001689 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.
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.