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Photograph of St. Olaf Auditorium
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Olaf Auditorium

Built in 1939 (PWA Moderne). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Olaf Opera House and Auditorium, is a historic building located in St. The city was able to complete the auditorium in 1939 with the assistance of the Public Works Administration (PWA) and labor provided under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).”

Wikipedia article St. Olaf Auditorium, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Clayton County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1939, PWA Moderne.

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. 118 S. Main St., St. Olaf, 52072
  • When was it listed? December 1994
  • Category. building
  • Township. Wagner township
  • When was it built? 1939
  • Architectural style. PWA Moderne
  • National Register reference number. 94001446 - 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of St. Olaf Auditorium between 2006 and 2020, burning about 63 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 September 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresDriftless National Wildlife RefugeHOWARD CREEK
1 April 2018Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2018Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of St. Olaf Auditorium: 9 unknowns, 7 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. 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
Elkader MineZincPast ProducerSmithsonite
RoadcutPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Bente QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cheeseman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Indian Lead MinesLeadOccurrenceGalena
Old Indian MinesLeadPast Producer
Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bente/Elkader QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Langsgaard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Larson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Clayton 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Timothy Davis House5.1 miles1976
Clayton County Courthouse5.1 miles1976
Carter House5.1 miles1976
Elkader Opera House5.1 miles1976
Elkader Keystone Bridge5.1 miles1976
Rialto Price House5.2 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001446 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clayton 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.
  • 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.