Built in 1913 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“The Preston Hall in Waitsburg, Washington is a three-story Classical Revival building that was built as a school building in 1913. It was designed by Walla Walla architects Osterman & Siebert.”
Wikipedia article Preston Hall (Waitsburg, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 32 National Register listings published here for Walla Walla County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1913, Neoclassical architecture.
National Register reference number.92001590- 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 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Preston Hall
between 1995 and 2017, burning about 1,462 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
5 August 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1,350 acres
Washington State Fire Marshal's Office
WHETSTONE RD
13 July 1995
Power generation/transmission/distribution
100 acres
Spokane District
SMITH CYN
26 June 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
27 May 2017
Recreation and ceremony
1.5 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Preston Hall: 6 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Waitsburg, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 4 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood.
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.
Substantial rains over the previous day, coupled with an early morning thunderstorm that dumped over one-half inch of rain in 45 minutes, lead to widespread agricultural runoff that washed mud over several local roads. Rushing waters stripped several layers of gravel from Miller Road, located just west of Waitsburg. Several local gravel roads needed to be completely regraded.
The Walla Walla County dispatch reported flooding along the Touchet River in the town of Waitsburg the morning of the 14th. The dispatch center relayed that a levee near the Preston Ave bridge had been breached, leading to flooding of properties along the Touchet River. Several roads in the Waitsburg area were also closed, including US Highway 12, due to water over the roadway.
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
3 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.
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.
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