Mary and Harry Brown House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Marinette County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Brown, Mary and Harry, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1931 Riverside Ave., Marinette, 54143
When was it listed? October 2015
Category. building
City. Marinette city
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 15000713 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Mary and Harry Brown House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	16
Fireworks	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BAY SHORE SPOT
26 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	CHERRY COKE
24 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PANTS FIRE
23 August 2004	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Marinette County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mary and Harry Brown House: 4 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Own Crews	Stone	Unknown
Marinette Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Marinette Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nob Hill Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Park Point Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Sandy Hill Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Marinette County

Storms near this property

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marinette, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
April 2019	Flood	Marinette	1 killed, 1 hurt	Runoff from rainfall and snow melt led to minor flooding and rapid flows on the Menominee River near and downstream from McAllister. Shortly before the flooding subsided, a fishing boat capsized in Marinette causing two men to fall into the river. One was rescued shortly thereafter and was treated and released from the hospital. The other drowned and his body was discovered two days later near Oconto in the waters of Green Bay, more than 15 miles from Marinette.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marinette	$50,000	no account filed
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Marinette	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Marinette. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Marinette	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in Marinette.
August 2015	Hail	Marinette	-	A thunderstorm dropped quarter size hail in Marinette.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Marinette	-	Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused street flooding in Marinette.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marinette	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines in the city of Marinette.
October 2012	Hail	Marinette	-	Penny to quarter size hail fell in Marinette.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Marinette	-	Thunderstorm winds downed 6 to 8 large trees and downed power lines around McAllister Street and Hockridge Street.
July 2008	Hail	Marinette	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Marinette	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Marinette	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Marinette	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marinette	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Marinette	-	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Marinette	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marinette	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marinette	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marinette 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
Dunlap Square Building	0.2 miles	1992
Lauerman Brothers Department Store	0.2 miles	1992
Bijou Theatre Building	0.2 miles	1993
F.J. Lauerman House	0.3 miles	1979
Milwaukee Road Depot	0.4 miles	2005
Independent Order of Odd Fellows-Lodge #189 Building	0.7 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000713 in Record Group 79.
Marinette County	All 12 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.