Schultz Brothers Drug Store

Built in 1901 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Schultz Brothers Drug Store, also known as Ye Olde Drug Store, is a historic building located in Williams, Iowa, United States. Schultz bought this property in 1897 and had the building constructed in 1901.”
Wikipedia article Schultz Brothers Drug Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1901, Victorian architecture.

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. 116 Main St., Williams, 50271
When was it listed? May 1996
Category. building
Township. Williams township
When was it built? 1901
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 96000518 - 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.

Storms near this property

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williams, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 5 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	$100,000	A hog containment building was destroyed.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	$35,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	$30,000	Grain bin on the road and power lines down. Possible tornado damage.
May 2000	Hail	Williams	$25,000	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	$25,000	no account filed
August 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Williams	$10,000	Tornado formed 4 miles southeast of Williams and moved initially north but made a sweeping right turn to the east southeast before leaving the county. An outbuilding lost part of its roof with crop damage occurring along the path. The tornado then entered Hardin county. The tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery.
November 2005	Tornado (F0)	Williams	$10,000	Brief touchdown south of the town of Williams.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	$10,000	no account filed
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	$5,000	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Williams	$5,000	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	$5,000	no account filed
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	$5,000	no account filed
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	$3,000	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	$3,000	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Williams	$2,000	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Williams	$2,000	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Williams	$1,000	Trained spotter reported hail up to quarter size blanketed on the ground, with some damage to leaves and vegetation. Delayed report and time estimated from radar.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	$1,000	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Williams	$1,000	no account filed
April 2024	Tornado (EFU)	Williams	-	A brief tornado developed in far northern Hamilton County and travelled a short distance north before leaving the county. No damage indicators were impacted in Hamilton County, hence the EFU rating. This tornado moved into Wright county.
August 2018	Hail	Williams	-	Public reported penny sized hail. This is a delayed report.
August 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Williams	-	This brief and narrow tornado formed a little over 3 miles southeast of Williams and moved east southeast. It remained in open farmland producing some crop damage. The tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery.
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Williams	-	There was a brief tornado touchdown with no damage reported.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	-	Wind gust was measured at an RWIS location.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	-	no account filed
June 2009	Funnel Cloud	Williams	-	no account filed
June 2009	Funnel Cloud	Williams	-	no account filed
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Williams	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Williams	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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

1 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
	William Oakland Round Barn	4.6 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000518 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton County	All 8 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.
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.