Hoquiam's Castle

Built in 1897 (Richardsonian Romanesque). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Hoquiam's Castle, also known as the Robert Lytle Mansion, is a private residence in Hoquiam, Washington. Built in 1897 and completed in 1900, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.”
Wikipedia article Hoquiam's Castle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grays Harbor County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1897, Richardsonian Romanesque.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 515 Chenault Ave., Hoquiam, 98550
When was it listed? April 1973
Category. building
Census division. Aberdeen-Hoquiam
When was it built? 1897
Architectural style. Richardsonian Romanesque
National Register reference number. 73001868 - 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Hoquiam's Castle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	9
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Other causes	3
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	JEFFERSON
22 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BISHOP
1 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ENDERSON ROAD
9 August 1996	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 August 2017	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NORTH RIVER
6 August 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 August 2019	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BRECKINRIDGE

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Hoquiam's Castle: 11 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Gold, Platinum, Gold. 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
Cow Point Placer	Gold	Occurrence
Hoquiam	Gold, Platinum	Occurrence	Beach Placer
Hoquiam Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
East Aberdeen	Silica	Past Producer
West Aberdeen	Silica	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hagara Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Stafford Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Swano Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Judge Charles W. Hodgdon House	under 500 feet	2005
Joseph Lytle Home	0.1 miles	1990
Lachlin McTaggert House	0.5 miles	1985
American Veterans Building-Hoquiam	0.5 miles	2011
Seventh Street Theater	0.5 miles	1987
Carnegie Library	0.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001868 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grays Harbor County	All 22 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.