Miller-Brewer House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Miller-Brewer House was a historic Greek Revival-style home located near Rochester, Washington, United States. It was built in 1860 and prior to 2017, was one of Washington state's few surviving box frame style houses from the territorial era.”
Wikipedia article Miller-Brewer House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 1988 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Miller--Brewer House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 17915 Guava, Rochester, 98579
When was it listed? June 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Thurston County MRA
Census division. Thurston South
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88000694 - 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Miller-Brewer House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,062 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	54
Debris and open burning	43
Recreation and ceremony	24
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Fireworks	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	4

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 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HWY 12
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	268 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MIMA ROAD
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	INDEPENDENCE RD
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	169TH
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LITTLE SCATTER CREEK
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	OAKBERG
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MAYTOWN REST STOP

Every fire recorded in Thurston 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 Miller-Brewer House: 19 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Peat. 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
Bucoda Pit	Clay, Peat	Past Producer
Apple Avenue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Delaney Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Grand Mound Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Grand Mound Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jackson's Meadow Tracts Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston 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
State Training School for Girls Administration Building	2.7 miles	1988
Rochester Elementary School	4.3 miles	1990
Colvin House	5.4 miles	1988
Jaaska House and Warehouse	5.7 miles	1988
Gate School	6.3 miles	1990
Seatco Prison Site	6.8 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000694 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Thurston County	All 68 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.