Sunset Point

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Sunset Point is a historic vacation estate on Catfish Lake in Eagle River, Wisconsin. Chicago gambler Mont Tennes bought land for the estate in 1921, and after several years of planning architects Rudolph Nedved and Elizabeth Kimball designed it in 1927.”
Wikipedia article Sunset Point (Eagle River, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Vilas County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1928.

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

The listing

Address. 1024 Everett Rd., Eagle River, 54521
When was it listed? November 1993
Category. building
Town. Washington town
When was it built? 1928
National Register reference number. 93001169 - 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Sunset Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Other causes	5
Fireworks	4
Natural	2
Smoking	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 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WILD EAGLE
1 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SPRING MEADOW RD
6 July 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2002	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Vilas 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 Sunset Point: 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Carpenter Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Eagle Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Eagle Lake Rd Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mud Creek Gravel Pit #4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Oneida County Operations	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Richter Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Spirit Lake Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Sundstein Road Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect

Every working recorded in Vilas County

Storms near this property

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle River, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 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
June 1999	Lightning	Eagle River	1 hurt	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Eagle River	$500,000	no account filed
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	$200,000	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	$50,000	no account filed
July 2011	Flash Flood	Eagle River	$5,000	A small section of Highway 70 was flooded in a low-lying area. In addition, a house had one basement wall caved in by high water.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	$3,000	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Eagle River	-	Quarter size hail fell in Eagle River.
May 2022	Hail	Eagle River	-	Quarter size hail fell in Eagle River.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees east of Eagle River. The time of this event is an estimate based on the Emergency Manager.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Eagle River. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2018	Hail	Eagle River	-	A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail as it passed near Eagle River.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	-	Thunderstorm winds downed large trees along Wall Street and knocked out power in Eagle River.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	-	Numerous trees and power lines down across eastern sections of Vilas county.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	-	Power lines down.
April 2008	Hail	Eagle River	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Eagle River	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Eagle River	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Eagle River	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Eagle River	-	no account filed
September 2001	Flood	Eagle River	-	no account filed
July 2000	Flood	Eagle River	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle River	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Eagle River	-	no account filed
September 1995	Hail	Eagle River	-	no account filed
September 1995	Hail	Eagle River	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

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
Everett Resort, The	0.8 miles	2008
Jabodon	1.3 miles	2009
Eagle River Stadium	1.6 miles	1994
St. Peter's Catholic School	3.2 miles	2018
Region Nine Training School	3.3 miles	1996
Eagle River Downtown Historic District	3.4 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001169 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.
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.