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Photograph of Episcopal Church of the Advent and Guild Hall
Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Episcopal Church of the Advent-Guild Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Episcopal Church of the Advent-Guild Hall on 6th St. E. in Devils Lake, North Dakota was built in 1886.”

Wikipedia article Episcopal Church of the Advent and Guild Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Ramsey County · listed in 2002 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Episcopal Church of the Advent--Guild Hall - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 501 6th St. E., Devil's Lake, 58301
  • When was it listed? June 2002
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Episcopal Churches of North Dakota MPS
  • City. Devils Lake city
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • Architect. George Hancock
  • National Register reference number. 02000669 - 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

59 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Episcopal Church of the Advent-Guild Hall between 1998 and 2020, burning about 325 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism19
Fireworks2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2017Debris and open burning25 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWANG
19 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyCASINO
16 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFort Totten AgencyTOWER
8 August 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceACKERMAN
8 August 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTHISTLE
5 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFALSE
4 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyBARRELS
31 August 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceACKERMAN

Every fire recorded in Ramsey County

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 Episcopal Church of the Advent-Guild Hall: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Soper Brothers Const PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Strong Excavating PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ramsey 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
Westminster Presbyterian Churchunder 500 feet2008
St. Olaf Lutheran Churchunder 500 feet2015
Devils Lake Carnegie Libraryunder 500 feet2002
Central High School0.1 miles2003
Locke Block0.1 miles1986
Methodist Episcopal Church0.1 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000669 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ramsey CountyAll 15 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.