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Ossian Opera House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Ossian Opera House, later known as the Knights of Columbus Hall, then "Wild Woods Event Center" and currently "Christ Our Redeemer Community Church", is a historic building located in Ossian, Iowa, United States. The opera house "movement" was active in Iowa from about 1870 to 1930.”

Wikipedia article Ossian Opera House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Winneshiek County · listed in 1979 · 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. Main St., Ossian, 52161
  • When was it listed? June 1979
  • Category. building
  • Township. Military township
  • National Register reference number. 79000950 - 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.

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 Ossian Opera House: 2 past producers. None of them 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buschman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kuhns QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winneshiek County

Storms near this property

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ossian, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
July 2009HailOssian$970,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindOssian$500,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindOssian$500,000no account filed
September 2019Tornado (EF0)Ossian$60,000A weak tornado touched down south of Ossian. The tornado moved northeast before dissipating southeast of Ossian. Several farm buildings and numerous trees were damaged along the path of the tornado.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindOssian$50,000Southeast of Calmar, a commodity shed was destroyed with several other buildings damaged, a 30 foot travel trailer was tossed across the yard of a residence and a large pine tree was topped with the debris found a quarter of a mile away.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindOssian$20,000Part of the roof was blown off of Ossian Senior Hospice.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindOssian$20,000Significant wind damage occurred to a barn and shed southeast of Ossian.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOssian$10,000Lots of trees were blown down across the entire county.
June 2014Flash FloodOssian$10,000Runoff from heavy rains flooded basements in Ossian.
July 2009HailOssian$10,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOssian$10,000no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOssian$3,000Power lines were blown down in Ossian.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindOssian$2,500no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindOssian$2,000Trees were blown down in Ossian blocking U.S. Highway 52.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindOssian$1,500no account filed
April 2010Thunderstorm WindOssian$1,000Law enforcement officials in Winneshiek county reported some power lines blown down near Ossian.
April 2018HailOssian-Quarter sized hail fell near Ossian.
June 2014Flash FloodOssian-Flash flooding along the Yellow River in southeast Winneshiek County washed out bridge approaches, gravel around culverts and destroyed crops.
September 2012HailOssian-Quarter sized hail was reported southeast of Calmar.
May 2014HailOssian-no account filed
May 2012HailOssian-no account filed
June 2008HailOssian-no account filed
September 2006HailOssian-no account filed
June 2000HailOssian-no account filed
June 1998HailOssian-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winneshiek 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
Jacobson Farm2.2 miles1982
Cooley-Whitney House5.0 miles1980
Calmar Passenger Depot5.7 miles2011
Washington Prairie Methodist Church6.5 miles1980
Frankville School7.8 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000950 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Winneshiek CountyAll 36 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.
  • 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.