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Teweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator

Built in 1901. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“The Teweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator is located in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the State Register of Historic Places in 2017 and to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.”

Wikipedia article Teweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1901.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 92 E Maple St., Sturgeon Bay, 54235
  • When was it listed? February 2018
  • Category. building
  • City. Sturgeon Bay city
  • When was it built? 1901
  • National Register reference number. 100002091 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

8,908 words

The chapter on Sturgeon Bay City in History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917 names Sturgeon Bay. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Sturgeon Bay seems to have been a center for human intercourse long before white men came here and began to do business. The remains of several Indian villages have been discovered in or near Sturgeon Bay which show that it had a large population hundreds of years ago. One of these villages was located on the property of the "Cove" summer resort about three hundred feet south of the boat landing. Another was across the bay at Circle Ridge on block 5. A great many fine relics have been unearthed here. Another village site has been found on block 8 of Wagener's second addition to Sturgeon Bay, just north of the city. Two large village sites are also found at Little Harbor.

Passage source: History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917.

The Indians presumably found this a convenient place of habitation because of its proximity to the waters of both Lake Michigan and Green Bay. When the first settlers came they found a well trodden path leading from the head of Sturgeon Bay to Lake Michigan, just north of the present canal, over which the Indians had portaged their canoes for centuries.

Passage source: History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Sturgeon Bay City - 8,908 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Teweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources134
8 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources580
18 June 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources623
16 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources610
17 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources497
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources440
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources439
29 April 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources71

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Teweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator: 6 producers, 5 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Adamski Fisher Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Eliason QuarryStoneUnknown
Elliason QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jutting Point Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kiehnau QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
The Reef Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Walker Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bissen QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Door Pit SouthSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Door County

Storms near this property

54 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sturgeon Bay, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 32 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 lightning, 3 funnel cloud. The reports record 5 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay3 hurt, $150,000no account filed
August 2003LightningSturgeon Bay1 hurtno account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay1 hurtno account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay$150,000no account filed
September 1994Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay$25,000no account filed
July 2011LightningSturgeon Bay$10,000Lightning struck a tree, followed the copper in the underground gas propane line to a house, and ignited the wooden support holding up a pipe in the basement.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay$2,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay$2,000no account filed
July 2023HailSturgeon Bay-Penny size hail fell in Sturgeon Bay.
July 2023HailSturgeon Bay-Half dollar size hail fell near Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2023HailSturgeon Bay-Penny size hail fell near Sturgeon Bay.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees just north of Sturgeon Bay.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Sturgeon Bay, and across Door County. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
April 2020HailSturgeon Bay-Golf ball size hail fell in Sturgeon Bay.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage across Door County.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Sturgeon Bay, Baileys Harbor, Fish Creek and Sister Bay. The time of this report was estimated for Sturgeon Bay based on radar data.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees just north of Sturgeon Bay, on Reynolds Road, and just south of Sturgeon Bay, near Clay Banks.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines were blown down in the city of Sturgeon Bay and across much of southern Door County.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Tree uprooted and landed on wires.
June 2007HailSturgeon Bay-Golf ball size hail.
June 2007HailSturgeon Bay-Ping pong ball size hail covered the ground.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Straight-line winds from thunderstorms knocked down several trees in central Door County.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Trees and branches down.
June 2007HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
June 2007HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
October 2006HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
May 2002HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
July 2002HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
September 2001Funnel CloudSturgeon Bay-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
August 2001HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
July 2000HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
September 1999Funnel CloudSturgeon Bay-no account filed
September 1999Funnel CloudSturgeon Bay-no account filed
August 1999WaterspoutSturgeon Bay-no account filed
September 1999WaterspoutSturgeon Bay-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
June 1998HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
June 1998LightningSturgeon Bay-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Door 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Sturgeon Bay Bridge0.3 miles2008
PRIDE Shipwreck (Schooner)0.3 miles2024
Larson, L. A., & Co. Store0.5 miles1985
Third Avenue Historic District0.5 miles1983
Carnegie Free Library0.6 miles1988
Sturgeon Bay Post Office0.6 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100002091 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Door CountyAll 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.
  • 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.