Hardware Mutual Insurance Companies Building

Built in 1922 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Hardware Mutual Insurance Companies Building is located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”
Wikipedia article Hardware Mutual Insurance Companies Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Portage County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1922, Neoclassical architecture, by Childs & Smith.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1421 Strongs Ave., Stevens Point, 54481
When was it listed? December 1994
Category. building
City. Stevens Point city
When was it built? 1922
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. Childs & Smith
National Register reference number. 94001358 - 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Hardware Mutual Insurance Companies Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	52
Debris and open burning	40
Railroad operations and maintenance	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Fireworks	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Other causes	4
Natural	1
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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	STOCKTON RR #1
8 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Storms near this property

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stevens Point, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 1996: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Stevens Point	$20,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Stevens Point	$5,000	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Stevens Point	-	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Stevens Point	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Hotel Whiting	under 500 feet	1990
Temple Beth Israel	0.1 miles	2007
Fox Theater	0.1 miles	1982
Mathias Mitchell Public Square-Main Street Historic District	0.1 miles	1986
J. L. Jensen House	0.2 miles	1988
Christina Kuhl House	0.2 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001358 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Portage County	All 22 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.
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.