Maryhill

Built in 1940 (Renaissance Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Maryhill Museum of Art is a small museum with an eclectic collection, located near what is now the community of Maryhill in the U.S. state of Washington.”
Wikipedia article Maryhill Museum of Art, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Klickitat County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1940, Renaissance Revival architecture, by Hornblower & Marshall.

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. SW of Goldendale on U.S. 197, Goldendale, 98620
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Census division. Dallesport-Klickitat
When was it built? 1940
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
Architect. Hornblower & Marshall
National Register reference number. 74001966 - 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

44 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Maryhill between 1998 and 2019, burning about 21,529 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	350 acres	Prineville District	0588
5 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,500 acres	Southeast Region-Department of Natural Resources	STONEHENGE
12 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.7 acres	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	HAYSTACK
8 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	Yakama Agency	MM 95
8 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Prineville District	0733
5 August 1998	Smoking	5.0 acres	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	WISHRAM EAST
4 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	270 acres	Yakama Agency	WISHRAM
16 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,200 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Maryhill: 12 past producers, 7 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gemstone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Gemstones Mine	Gemstone, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Unnamed Site	Gemstone, Silver, Gold	Occurrence
Fulton Canyon	Stone	Past Producer
Fulton Canyon	Stone	Past Producer
Williams	Stone	Past Producer
Fulton Canyon Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fulton Canyon Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Williams Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Klickitat County

Storms near this property

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goldendale, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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
August 2004	Lightning	Goldendale	$10,000	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Goldendale	-	Heavy rainfall accompanied the hail with totals of 2.5 to 3 inches in the same location.
July 1999	Hail	Goldendale	-	A farmer located 4 miles south of Satus Pass reported crop damage due to hail as well as some erosion from heavy rain. Lightning also damaged a sprinkler pump.

Every storm recorded in Klickitat 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	First Day Advent Christian Church	2.5 miles	1991
	Stonehenge Memorial	3.1 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001966 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Klickitat County	All 9 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.