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Photograph of International Vinegar Museum
Photograph by Wtshymanski, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Roslyn Auditorium

Built in 1999. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The International Vinegar Museum is located at 500 Main Street in Roslyn, South Dakota, United States. The museum is located in the former Roslyn Auditorium, a Depression-era brick building built in 1936 with funding from the Works Progress Administration.”

Wikipedia article International Vinegar Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Day County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1999.

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. 510 Main, Roslyn, 57261
  • When was it listed? February 2001
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in South Dakota MPS
  • Town. Roslyn town
  • When was it built? 1999
  • National Register reference number. 01000097 - 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

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Roslyn Auditorium between 1999 and 2013, burning about 44 acres 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
Debris and open burning4

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
21 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresSisseton AgencyJOHNSON
14 May 2008Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
10 May 2013Debris and open burning1.3 acresWaubay National Wildlife RefugeWHITE
1 May 1999Debris and open burning30 acresWaubay National Wildlife RefugeOPITZ

Every fire recorded in Day County

Storms near this property

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roslyn, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 1994HailRoslyn$500Roof shingles were ripped off of a house.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindRoslyn$500Roof shingles were ripped off of a house.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-The caller stated that winds, estimated at 60 mph, with nickel size hail, caused damage to crops.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-The Fire Department in Roslyn reported numerous trees down in town.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-A trained spotter reported thunderstorm winds damaged the awning on a camper trailer.
August 2025FloodRoslyn-Heavy rain caused water to run over South Dakota Highway 27 one mile south of Pierpont. Water was also reported over 422nd ave, 3 miles east of Pierpont, where a vehicle hydroplaned into the ditch. One of the rural county roads 5 miles southeast of Pierpont was partly washed out. Roadside ditches were full across the better part of northwest and north central Day county, with water overtopping several additional roads. 3.6 inches of rainfall was measured 6 miles east southeast of Pierpont by a resident, while a trained spotter 1 mile south of Roslyn recorded 4.64 inches. A resident 7 miles west of Roslyn would go on to estimate they received 5 inches of total rainfall.
October 2021Tornado (EF0)Roslyn-The fire department reported a brief tornado touchdown.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-The fire department reported trees down in Roslyn due to 60 to 70 mph estimated winds.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-Several trees were downed by estimated 70 mph winds.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-Estimated sixty mph winds occurred.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-Sixty mph winds occurred again with another thunderstorm in Roslyn.
June 2014Flash FloodRoslyn-Very heavy rains of over 4 inches brought water over several roads southwest of Roslyn.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-Many trees were downed along with many branches in and around Roslyn. Several cars and homes received damage from the fallen trees and branches. The grain elevator was leaning over some in town. A semi truck was also tipped over.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-Sixty mph winds were estimated in Roslyn.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-Seventy mph winds were estimated in Roslyn with no damage reported.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-Eighty mph winds brought many trees down.
August 2006HailRoslyn-Golfball to baseball size hail broke many windows, damaged siding, roofs, and several vehicles in and near Roslyn.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-Large branches were downed by the high winds.
June 2003Flash FloodRoslyn-Heavy rain caused flash flooding on County road 17 in several locations near Roslyn.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-Winds gusting to 70 mph downed many large branches in Roslyn. Power was also knocked out for a time in town.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-Winds to 70 mph brought down many tree limbs.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-Two grain bins were blown over from the 65 mph winds.
July 2025HailRoslyn-no account filed
June 2024HailRoslyn-no account filed
June 2024HailRoslyn-no account filed
August 2017HailRoslyn-no account filed
May 2015HailRoslyn-no account filed
August 2013HailRoslyn-no account filed
June 2012HailRoslyn-no account filed
August 2009HailRoslyn-no account filed
June 2009HailRoslyn-no account filed
June 2003HailRoslyn-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRoslyn-no account filed
May 1996HailRoslyn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Day 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000097 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Day CountyAll 13 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.
  • 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.