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Hall, Samuel, House

Built in 1856 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Samuel Hall House is a Greek Revival-styled farmhouse built in 1856 in Albion, Dane County, Wisconsin. It was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.”

Wikipedia article Samuel Hall House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1856, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 924 Hillside Rd., Albion, 53534
  • When was it listed? December 1993
  • Category. building
  • Town. Albion town
  • When was it built? 1856
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 93001445 - 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

17,674 words

This property stands in Albion Town. History of Dane County, Wisconsin ... Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, 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 Albion Town - 17,674 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

21 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Hall, Samuel, House between 2013 and 2020, burning about 31 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1808574
2 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20561
15 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19509
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20504
8 May 2018Debris and open burning10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018051
17 May 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1805345
9 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1904294
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804253

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hall, Samuel, House: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Wolf Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Carpenter Quarry No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kaupanger-Ramsey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this property

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albion, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 12 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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
June 1998LightningAlbion$100,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindAlbion$50,000A 100 year old barn collapsed.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAlbion$50,000A grain bin was destroyed and and several large trees were uprooted.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAlbion$5,000Forty foot shed lifted and thrown into adjacent field.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAlbion$2,000Trees down. One large tree fell on a home's roof, resulting in minor damage.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Tree fell through roof of a home.
April 2025HailAlbion-Tennis ball sized hail.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Branches down.
August 2017Heavy RainAlbion-Up to 3 feet of water on the off ramp of I-90 and highway 73.
June 2008Flash FloodAlbion-Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding as water reached depths of 3 feet or more and several cars stalled. This was the 2nd of 6 flash floods in Dane County on 3 different days. The first one occurred on June 7th, the next two on June 8th, and the last three on June 12th. In all six cases, damage to homes, businesses, and crops was noted. It was nearly impossible to break down the damages by flash flood event. Therefore, the collective breakdown is provided in the last June 12th flash flood StormData entry for Dane County.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAlbion-A utility pole fell on a house.
April 2025HailAlbion-no account filed
July 2022HailAlbion-no account filed
July 2022HailAlbion-no account filed
July 2022HailAlbion-no account filed
June 2017HailAlbion-no account filed
September 2016HailAlbion-no account filed
June 2010HailAlbion-no account filed
March 2007HailAlbion-no account filed
August 2006HailAlbion-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAlbion-no account filed
May 2005HailAlbion-no account filed
May 2004HailAlbion-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindAlbion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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

3 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
Bedrud-Olson Farmstead4.3 miles1999
Gaute Ingebretson Loft House6.5 miles1987
Cambridge Public School and High School7.1 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93001445 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane CountyAll 238 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.