Brin Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 85 National Register listings published here for Winnebago County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 Main St., Menasha, 54952
When was it listed? July 1986
Category. building
City. Menasha city
National Register reference number. 86001541 - 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.

The ground it stands on

24 words

This property stands in Menasha City. History of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and Early History of the Northwest, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Menasha City - 24 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Brin Building between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	106
15 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	112
11 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1711
1 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	AP00565
3 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1386
24 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	96
12 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1485
19 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1260

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Brin Building: 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
Van Handel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Deitz Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Own Crews	Stone	Unknown
Badger Highway Menasha Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Curtiss Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Jorgenson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Schultz Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Winnebago County

Storms near this property

37 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Menasha, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 19 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flood. The reports record 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Menasha	1 hurt, $300,000	no account filed
August 2004	Lightning	Menasha	1 hurt	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Menasha	$9,000,000	Hail, up to golf ball size, damaged hundreds of vehicles and more than 200 homes in northeast Winnebago County. The wind-driven hail caused significant damage to roofs and siding.
July 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Menasha	$75,000	A tornado, rated EF1 with estimated wind speeds of 90 mph, touched down at 10:44 p.m. CDT about 4 miles west-northwest of Menasha. It stayed on the ground for one minute and produced sporadic damage along a narrow path almost half a mile long. An apartment complex sustained the heaviest damage. Four buildings were affected, two of which lost parts of their roofs (DI 5, DOD 2 & 3).
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Menasha	$50,000	A building on the west side of Menasha was damaged by winds estimated at 75 mph. A car was flipped near Highways 76 and 10. Several camper trailers were also tipped over at a nearby campground, heavily damaging one of them.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Menasha	$44,500	no account filed
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Menasha	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Fox Crossing. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Menasha	-	Thunderstorm winds uprooted many trees in Menasha.
December 2015	Heavy Rain	Menasha	-	Several rounds of heavy rain across Winnebago County resulted in water covering the road near the intersection of Highway 114 and South Oneida Street in Menasha and flooding of fields between Neenah and Oshkosh.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Menasha	-	Thunderstorm winds downed tree limbs and power lines in Menasha.
August 2014	Hail	Menasha	-	Nickel size hail fell at Menasha.
June 2012	Hail	Menasha	-	Quarter size hail fell in Menasha.
May 2011	Hail	Menasha	-	Nickel size hail fell in Menasha.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Menasha	-	Thunderstorm winds snapped trees, downed power lines and tore 2 sections from a dock on the north side of Lake Winnebago.
July 2010	Hail	Menasha	-	Golf ball size hail near Menasha caused extensive damage to the roof and siding of a house.
July 2010	Hail	Menasha	-	Quarter to half dollar size hail fell near Menasha.
July 2008	Hail	Menasha	-	Torrential rainfall accompanied the hail.
June 2008	Hail	Menasha	-	Penny size hail lasted for 3 minutes.
August 2008	Hail	Menasha	-	Penny size hail was reported in the town of Menasha.
August 2008	Hail	Menasha	-	Quarter size hail was reported in the town of Menasha.
August 2008	Hail	Menasha	-	Spotters reported half-dollar size hail on the east side of Menasha.
August 2008	Hail	Menasha	-	Nickel size hail was reported on the east side of Menasha.
August 2008	Hail	Menasha	-	Nickel size hail was reported in the town of Menasha.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Menasha	-	Thunderstorms winds downed branches and produced half-inch hail at the intersection US Highway 441 and County Road P.
July 2008	Hail	Menasha	-	Quarter size hail damaged a garden near Neenah.
July 2003	Hail	Menasha	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Menasha	-	no account filed
May 2002	Funnel Cloud	Menasha	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Menasha	-	no account filed
August 2000	Flood	Menasha	-	no account filed
June 1999	Flood	Menasha	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Menasha	-	no account filed
August 1998	Tornado (F0)	Menasha	-	no account filed
June 1998	Seiche	Menasha	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Menasha	-	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Menasha	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Menasha	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winnebago 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
Carl Koch Block	under 500 feet	1986
Tayco Street Bridge	under 500 feet	1986
Washington Street Historic District	0.3 miles	1986
Upper Main Street Historic District	0.3 miles	1984
Menasha Dam	0.3 miles	1993
Gustav Augustin Block	0.4 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001541 in Record Group 79.
Winnebago County	All 85 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.