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Photograph of Fred B. Jones House
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Fred B. Jones Estate

Built in 1901 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Jones House is part of an estate called Penwern in Delavan, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed from 1900 to 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.”

Wikipedia article Fred B. Jones House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Walworth County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1901, Prairie School architecture, by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listed as. Jones, Fred B., Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 3335 S. Shore Dr., Delavan Lake, 53115
  • When was it listed? December 1974
  • Category. building
  • Town. Delavan town
  • When was it built? 1901
  • Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
  • Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
  • National Register reference number. 74000134 - 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

21 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Fred B. Jones Estate between 2018 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 Resources20340
1 June 2019Natural1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1906001
8 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources174
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources58
26 May 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-084
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804008
29 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources134
28 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources171

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fred B. Jones Estate: 7 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Community PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Harness PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hopkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hopkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Koehl PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mann Brothers, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mauritz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stewart PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Williams Bay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this property

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delavan Lake, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2026Tornado (EF1)Delavan Lake$83,000The tornado began west of Quinney Road and tracked to the southeast, hitting 4 barns as it tracked across farmland west of Elkhorn.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindDelavan Lake$7,000Multiple reports of tree damage northwest of Delavan. A shed was also damaged.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindDelavan Lake$5,000Six inch diameter trees down.
September 2010HailDelavan Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walworth 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
A.P. Johnson House0.3 miles1982
George W. Borg Corporation3.0 miles2020
A. H. Allyn House3.2 miles1985
Delavan's Vitrified Brick Street3.2 miles1996
Delavan Post Office3.3 miles2000
Delavan Downtown Commercial Historic District3.3 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000134 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Walworth CountyAll 50 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.