Casa Alvarez

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Casa Alvarez is a wood-frame, French Colonial-style house in Florissant, Missouri listed on the National Register of Historic Places as among the oldest houses in St. According to its nomination for the Register it "serves as a last link with the Spanish occupation of the Upper Louisiana territory." Located at 289 Rue St.”
Wikipedia article Casa Alvarez, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1976 · 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. 289 rue St. Denis, Florissant, 63031
When was it listed? June 1976
Category. building
Also known as. St. Ferdinand City MRA (AD); St. Ferdinand City MRA
Township. Florissant township
Architectural style. French Colonial
National Register reference number. 76002180 - 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Casa Alvarez: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	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

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florissant, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 27 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2007	Lightning	Florissant	1 killed	A 25 year old man was killed by a lightning strike while he was walking along the 1800 block of North New Florissant Road.
April 2001	Hail	Florissant	$400,000,000	no account filed
February 2006	Hail	Florissant	$500,000	no account filed
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	$50,000	Storm spotters reported hail up to 1.25 inch in diameter near Creve Coeur Lake at 2128 CST. A roof was damaged on a restaurant on north Highway 67 in Florissant shortly after that. Emergency Management officials reported 1.00-inch-diameter hail up a foot deep along buildings in Bridgeton.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs, as well as several power lines. Also, minor shingle damage to a couple of homes.
April 1993	Hail	Florissant	$5,000	An off-duty NWS employee in Florissant reported 1.00-inch hail.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	$300	Several large trees were blown down across west and northern parts of the county. Winds gusts were recorded at 50 to 55 mph.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs.
March 2020	Hail	Florissant	-	A wide swath of large hail between an inch and 1.25 inches in diameter fell along the I-270 corridor in northern portions of St. Louis County. Large hail was reported in Florrisant, Black Jack and Spanish Lake.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a one foot diameter tree.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs in Florissant. One tree limb broke a windshield on a car.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	Numerous large tree limbs and several power lines were blown down.
May 2007	Hail	Florissant	-	Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail in Florissant.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	Numerous reports of trees, tree limbs and power lines blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	More tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	Numerous large tree limbs were blown down. Also, several power lines were blown down at the intersection of Lindbergh and New Halls Ferry Road.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	A large oak tree was downed in Sioux Passage Park.
May 2004	Hail	Florissant	-	Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
April 2002	Hail	Florissant	-	The County Emergency Management Agency reported nickel size hail.
October 2000	Hail	Florissant	-	The general public reported 3/4 inch hail in Florissant.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	The St. Louis County Police reported numerous power lines down in north St. Louis County.
May 1995	Hail	Florissant	-	Reported by local law enforcement agencies.
April 1994	Hail	Florissant	-	Reported by the public.
April 2016	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
October 2010	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	no account filed
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
October 2001	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Florissant	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Florissant	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Florissant	-	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
St. Ferdinand Central Historic District	0.2 miles	1979
Marvin Tebeau House	0.2 miles	1979
Lance House	0.2 miles	1979
Archambault House	0.2 miles	1976
Tebeau House	0.2 miles	1979
Nicolay House	0.2 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76002180 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.