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Photograph of Herman C. Timm House
Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Herman C. Timm House

Built in 1872 (Stick style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Timm House is a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New Holstein, Wisconsin. The house is a significant example of Stick style architecture, a rather rare predecessor of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States.”

Wikipedia article Herman C. Timm House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Calumet County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1872, Stick style.

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.
  • Listed as. Timm, Herman C., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1600 Main St., New Holstein, 53061
  • When was it listed? July 1996
  • Category. building
  • Town. New Holstein town
  • When was it built? 1872
  • Architectural style. Stick style, Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 96000727 - 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Herman C. Timm House between 2018 and 2019, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2

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 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5056
14 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5123
21 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5115
30 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources4962

Every fire recorded in Calumet County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Herman C. Timm House: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Haepner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kiel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
L. Fries PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wiskerchen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calumet County

Storms near this property

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Holstein, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 lightning, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. 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 1997LightningNew Holstein1 killedno account filed
July 2016LightningNew Holstein$25,000Lightning stuck a house in New Holstein, causing roof damage.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein$15,000Straight-line winds from a thunderstorm, likely a wet microburst, downed trees and branches and flooded area roads. The high winds blew two airplanes into each other at New Holstein Municipal Airport when a tie-down broke loose, threw a tree branch through the top of another plane's wing and flipped a pop-up camper severely damaging it.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein$10,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein$2,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein$2,000no account filed
April 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein$1,000Thunderstorm winds tipped over a camper, ripped sheet metal roofing from a building, and downed four trees as the storm passed through New Holstein. The time of this event is estimated.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein$1,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein$1,000no account filed
August 2021HailNew Holstein-Penny size hail fell in New Holstein.
August 2018Tornado (EF0)New Holstein-A tornado touched down just inside the Calumet County line and moved east into Manitowoc County. A tree was uprooted near Meggers Road.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein-Thunderstorm winds downed several dozen trees in New Holstein.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein-A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 MPH was measured in New Holstein.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in New Holstein.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in New Holstein.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in New Holstein.
August 2008Funnel CloudNew Holstein-A funnel cloud was seen by several people near New Holstein.
October 2007HailNew Holstein-Nickel-size hail fell in New Holstein.
June 2006HailNew Holstein-no account filed
June 2006Funnel CloudNew Holstein-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Holstein-no account filed
June 2004HailNew Holstein-no account filed
May 1998HailNew Holstein-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calumet 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

2 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
Chilton Post Office6.6 miles2000
Calumet County Courthouse6.9 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000727 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calumet CountyAll 5 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.