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Photograph of Smith and Weller Building
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Smith and Weller Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Smith and Weller Building, also known as the Knights of Pythias Hall, was a historic building in New London, Iowa, United States. Weller bought the lot on which the building sat for $300 in 1872.”

Wikipedia article Smith and Weller Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 100 East Main St., New London, 52645
  • When was it listed? August 2003
  • Category. building
  • Township. New London township
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 03000830 - 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

16 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Smith and Weller Building between 2011 and 2020, burning about 74 acres 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this property

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New London, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
May 2009LightningNew London$75,000Lightning started a house fire in New London, IA around 455 pm on May 15.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNew London$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew some siding off a house on the northwest side of New London, IA around 640 pm June 23. This report was relayed by the emergency manager of Henderson County Illinois.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNew London$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew the siding off a house in New London, IA around 639 pm June 23.
April 1994HailNew London$5,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNew London-Recorded wind gust by the Iowa DOT.
July 2021HailNew London-A trained spotter reported dime to quarter size hail.
July 2021HailNew London-A trained spotter reported nickel size hail fell for 2 minutes.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNew London-A tree and some limbs reported down, with heavy rain and strong winds continuing.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNew London-A 4 inch diameter peach tree branch was broken off.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNew London-Several 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNew London-A trained spotter reported that 4 to 6 inch tree limbs were down and the power was out.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNew London-A measured report by a spotter relayed through emergency management.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindNew London-The spotter reported 50 to 60 mph wind gusts.
February 2017HailNew London-A spotter reported pea to nickel size hail for a 6 minute long period.
February 2017HailNew London-A public report of quarter size hail was received.
April 2015HailNew London-The Fire Department in New London reported golf ball sized hail was falling. The report was relayed by the Henry County 911 Center.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNew London-A barn was severely damaged.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNew London-A trained spotter reported a 10 inch partially rotted tree branch blown down at Chestnut and McKinley. A 4 inch health branch was blown down on the road near 300 East Cleveland in New London.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNew London-Wind gusts were estimated to be 50 to 60 mph in New London, IA around 645 pm June 23.
June 2008HailNew London-Nickel-sized hail fell about 3 miles south of New London, IA at 6:35 pm June 12.
June 2008HailNew London-Hail estimated to be dime-sized fell in the vicinity of New London, IA.
June 2008HailNew London-Hail estimated to be dime-sized fell just south of New London, IA.
June 2006HailNew London-up to penny size hail
October 2001HailNew London-0.75 in hail reported by law enforcement.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindNew London-60 mph thunderstorm wind gust reported in New London.
March 2023HailNew London-no account filed
May 2019HailNew London-no account filed
May 2017HailNew London-no account filed
April 2015HailNew London-no account filed
March 2006HailNew London-no account filed
April 1996HailNew London-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindNew London-no account filed
April 1996HailNew London-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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

5 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
McClellan's General Storeunder 500 feet2003
Peterson Manufacturing Building0.2 miles1997
John and Lavina Bangs House1.5 miles2003
Geode State Park, Civilian Conservation Corps Area6.6 miles1990
Pleasant Lawn School Historic District7.9 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000830 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Henry CountyAll 54 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.