Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2011. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“(Provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance.) documents relating to the property including transfers of ownership and wills associated with the site. The abstract three siblings; each sibling received one quarter of the property.”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for Kiser Mansion. Machine-read text.
one of 27 National Register listings in Champaign County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.10001211- 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
3 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Kiser Mansion between
2002 and 2002, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Arson/incendiarism
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. Museums hold 992 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Kiser Mansion between 1842 and
1975: 789 Animalia, 162 Plantae, 35 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, H. H. Ross, A. T. Hotchkiss and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
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.
From the nomination file
8,639 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our Other: PHILANTHROPY Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack 1913 - 1945 Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. 1913, 1916, 1917, 1933, 1937 (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Kiser, John Sr., Thyrza Furrow, and John Jr. Owned by a religious institution or used for religious removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave. D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure.
F a commemorative property. less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years. and no longer occupied by the Kiser family. Criteria Considerations (explanation, if necessary) purposes. UNKNOWN history. COMMERCE ARCHITECTURE Criteria Considerations Significant Person individual distinction. Cultural Affiliation Property is: for National Register listing.) Significant Dates Areas of Significance Period of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria Architect/Builder Period of Significance (justification) Property embodies the distinctive characteristics County and State (Enter categories from instructions.) NPS Form 10-900 (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.) Construction of the Kiser Mansion was completed in 1913.
Period of Significance ends in 1945 when the property was sold (Mark"x"inone or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 10001211, 81 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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