Old Main

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Old Main is a historic building located on the Iowa Wesleyan University campus in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. Built in 1854, when James Harlan was the college's president, it is the second building constructed on the campus after Pioneer Hall.”
Wikipedia article Old Main (Iowa Wesleyan University), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

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. Iowa Wesleyan College campus, Mount Pleasant, 52641
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. building
City. Mount Pleasant city
National Register reference number. 73000727 - 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

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Old Main between 2013 and 2017, burning about 31 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 burning	3

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
6 February 2017	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 February 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 November 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Old Main: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Henry County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Smith Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working 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

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
Harlan-Lincoln House	0.4 miles	1973
Zuhn Building	0.4 miles	1991
G. W. S. Allen House	0.6 miles	1985
Brazelton House	0.6 miles	1983
Henry Ambler House	0.7 miles	1986
Budde-Singer Building	0.8 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000727 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Henry County	All 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.
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.