Luigi and Aurora Pagani House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Luigi and Aurora Pagani House is a historic house in Black Diamond, Washington built circa 1896. It is named for Italian immigrants Luigi and Aurora Pagani, who leased and later owned the home, after they settled in Black Diamond where Luigi worked as a coal miner.”
Wikipedia article Luigi and Aurora Pagani House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King 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. Pagani, Luigi and Aurora, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 32907 Merino St., Black Diamond, 98010
When was it listed? August 2002
Category. building
Census division. Enumclaw Plateau
National Register reference number. 02000861 - 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Luigi and Aurora Pagani House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	6
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1

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 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 1997	Fireworks	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	GREEN RIVER GORGE
2 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
19 August 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	FRANKLIN

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Luigi and Aurora Pagani House: 13 past producers, 7 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Arsenic, Aluminum. 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	Recorded
Blum Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Dobroff	Iron	Occurrence
Franklin Arsenic	Arsenic, Silver	Prospect
Royal Reward Mine	Mercury, Arsenic, Antimony	Past Producer	1875, 1957
Franklin Silica Sand	Silica	Prospect
Ravensdale Pit	Silica	Producer
Blum Hi-Alumina Clay Deposit	Aluminum	Prospect
Byrd Prospect	Mercury	Occurrence
Cardinal Reward Mine	Mercury, Arsenic	Occurrence	1958
Green River Hi-Alumina Clays	Aluminum	Prospect

Every working recorded in King County

Storms near this property

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black Diamond, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2008	Funnel Cloud	Black Diamond	-	Funnel cloud reached about half way toward the ground.

Every storm recorded in King 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
Black Diamond Cemetery	0.5 miles	2000
Gaffney's Lake Wilderness Lodge	5.2 miles	2003
Covington Electrical Substation, Bonneville Power Administration	6.1 miles	2018
Louis and Ellen Olson House	7.0 miles	1984
Trommald Building	7.2 miles	2000
Patton Bridge	7.3 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000861 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
King County	All 324 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.