Liberty Hall

Built in 1881 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Liberty Hall is a historic building located in Lamoni, Iowa, United States. The house, built in 1881, served as the residence of Joseph Smith III when he served as the president and prophet of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints when it was headquartered in Lamoni.”
Wikipedia article Liberty Hall (Lamoni, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Decatur County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1881, Victorian architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Lamoni, 50140
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. building
City. Lamoni city
When was it built? 1881
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 83000350 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Liberty Hall: 1 past producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Spaulding Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this property

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lamoni, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 8 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2010	Flood	Lamoni	$250,000	no account filed
June 2010	Flash Flood	Lamoni	$100,000	Eight inches of standing water in town. Highway 69 closed due to water on the road and stranded vehicles.
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	$50,000	no account filed
July 2008	Flash Flood	Lamoni	$25,000	Water was over 280th Street 1 mile west of County Road R14.
June 2014	Hail	Lamoni	$20,000	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Lamoni	$15,000	no account filed
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	$10,000	Law enforcement reported a tree down on a power line in Lamoni. Time estimated from radar.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	$10,000	A trained spotter reported damage by estimated 75 MPH winds.
April 2003	Hail	Lamoni	$10,000	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	$10,000	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	$10,000	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	$10,000	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Lamoni	$5,000	no account filed
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	$5,000	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Lamoni	$5,000	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Lamoni	$5,000	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Lamoni	$5,000	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Lamoni	$5,000	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	$5,000	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Lamoni	$5,000	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	$5,000	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	$2,000	Two large tree branches down on the north side of town. One was down across the road.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	$2,000	no account filed
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	$1,000	Several three to four inch branches were down across the yard.
April 2001	Tornado (F0)	Lamoni	$1,000	Minor damage in rural area with brief touchdown.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	-	Delayed report. Several large trees down in central sections of Lamoni, followed shortly by a 71 mph gust at the Lamoni airport.
August 2018	Heavy Rain	Lamoni	-	Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.50 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Lamoni	-	Lamoni Municipal Airport recorded heavy rainfall of 2.61 inches over the last 24 hours. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST.
October 2018	Heavy Rain	Lamoni	-	Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.88 inches over the last 24 hours.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	-	Lamoni ASOS recorded a 77 mph wind gust.
October 2017	Heavy Rain	Lamoni	-	Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.35 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2017	Heavy Rain	Lamoni	-	Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 1.90 inches.
October 2013	Heavy Rain	Lamoni	-	Twenty four hour rainfall total of 2.61 inches.
August 2009	Heavy Rain	Lamoni	-	Rainfall of 3.00 inches was reported.
June 2008	Hail	Lamoni	-	A small amount of penny size hail fell along with 40 MPH winds.
July 2008	Heavy Rain	Lamoni	-	Report from KCCI schoolnet site of 4.75 inches of rain.
June 2015	Hail	Lamoni	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Lamoni	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Lamoni	-	no account filed
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lamoni	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Lamoni	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Lamoni	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Union Church	7.7 miles	1976
	Grand River Bridge	7.8 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000350 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Decatur County	All 7 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.