Photograph of Wallace Hall — Photograph by GrandpaDave, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Science Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Wallace Hall, formerly known as Science Hall, is a historic building located on the campus of Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, United States. The 2½-story, brick structure was designed by Wichita, Kansas architect, and Indianola native, William T.”
Wikipedia article Wallace Hall (Simpson College), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 1991 · 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. Simpson College Campus, Indianola, 50125
When was it listed? May 1991
Category. building
Also known as. Architectural Legacy of Proudfoot & Bird in Iowa MPS
City. Indianola city
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 91000535 - 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

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Science Hall between 2015 and 2017, burning about 55 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1

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
22 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 February 2017	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Storms near this property

60 of 131 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indianola, the town this property stands in, in 131 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 50 hail, 36 thunderstorm wind, 25 heavy rain, 10 flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	1 hurt, $100,000	Two semi-tractortrailer rigs blown of U.S. Highway 65. One driver received minor injuries.
June 1999	Lightning	Indianola	1 hurt, $10,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flash Flood	Indianola	$350,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Indianola	$200,000	no account filed
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$100,000	Public reported large trees down, damage to vehicles, and power lines down near Boston Ave in Indianola.
May 1996	Flood	Indianola	$100,000	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$75,000	Microburst event
June 1998	Hail	Indianola	$75,000	no account filed
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$50,000	Trained spotter reported a large tree down on a house.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Indianola	$50,000	Warren County Dispatch advised that a mobile home park on the south side of Indianola near the intersection of US 69 was flooding.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Indianola	$50,000	Law enforcement and amateur radio reported at least 18 inches of water flowing through a trailer park just west of Highway 65/69 with people stranded.
August 2004	Flash Flood	Indianola	$50,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Indianola	$50,000	no account filed
May 1998	Flood	Indianola	$50,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Indianola	$50,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$40,000	no account filed
May 1997	Flood	Indianola	$40,000	no account filed
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$30,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Indianola	$30,000	no account filed
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$25,000	Trees and power lines down. Winds estimated 60 to 70 MPH and blew for several minutes.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Indianola	$25,000	Evacuating portion of trailer court caused by backup of small creek that empties into the Middle River.
May 2007	Flood	Indianola	$25,000	no account filed
October 2007	Flood	Indianola	$25,000	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Indianola	$25,000	no account filed
July 1997	Flood	Indianola	$25,000	no account filed
June 2015	Flash Flood	Indianola	$20,000	Law Enforcement reported creeks out of their banks on the south side of Indianola as well as multiple roadways covered by water.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Indianola	$20,000	High water from a rising creek was threatening numerous trailer homes at a trailer court in the south part of Indianola.
June 2001	Hail	Indianola	$20,000	no account filed
August 1999	Lightning	Indianola	$16,000	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$15,000	Trees reported down on east Euclid Ave.
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$15,000	no account filed
July 1996	Flood	Indianola	$15,000	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$10,000	Iowa DOT reports tree and power line damage along Highway 92. Time estimated from radar.
June 2011	Hail	Indianola	$10,000	Mostly half dollar size hail with a few golf ball stones.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$10,000	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Indianola	$10,000	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$10,000	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Indianola	$10,000	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$10,000	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$10,000	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Indianola	$10,000	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Indianola	$10,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$5,000	Winds estimated at 60 MPH with small limbs down.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$5,000	Heavy rain and small hail was also reported.
June 2008	Hail	Indianola	$5,000	A spotter reported nickel to quarter size hail in southwest Indianola.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$5,000	Trees were down on the south side of town.
June 2011	Hail	Indianola	$5,000	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Indianola	$5,000	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Indianola	$5,000	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Indianola	$5,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Indianola	$5,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Indianola	$5,000	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$5,000	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Indianola	$5,000	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Indianola	$5,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$5,000	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Indianola	$5,000	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$4,000	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Indianola	$4,000	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola	$3,000	A 20 foot wooden privacy fence was blown down and doors to a plastic shed were blown out.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Indianola High School	0.6 miles	2002
Indianola Carnegie Library	0.6 miles	2017
Warren County Court House	0.7 miles	2003
Hoosier Row School	4.7 miles	2011
Lake Ahquabi State Park, Bathhouse Area (Area B)	5.2 miles	1990
Lake Ahquabi State Park, Picnic Area (Area A)	5.3 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000535 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Warren County	All 13 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.