Ben and Margaret Stone Boathouse

Built in 1928 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Ben and Margaret Stone Boathouse is a historic boathouse in Plum Lake, Wisconsin. The boathouse was built in 1928 by Ben and Margaret Stone of Tripoli, Wisconsin.”
Wikipedia article Ben and Margaret Stone Boathouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Vilas County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1928, American Craftsman.

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. Stone, Ben and Margaret, Boathouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 8810 Co. Rd. H, Plum Lake, 54560
When was it listed? February 2008
Category. building
Town. Plum Lake town
When was it built? 1928
Architectural style. American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 08000017 - 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Ben and Margaret Stone Boathouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Fireworks	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	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
13 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.7 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 July 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Vilas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Ben and Margaret Stone Boathouse: 7 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Frank Lake Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Frank Lake Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Klondike Lake Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Lost Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mud Creek Gravel Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Mud Creek Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Mud Creek Gravel Pit #3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Plum Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Roach Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Star Creek Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Vilas 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

1 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
	Peacock Inn	5.2 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000017 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Vilas County	All 15 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.