Edwardsville Chapter House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Edwardsville Chapter House is a historic building located at 515 W. The building was constructed between 1909 and 1910 as a meetinghouse for Edwardsville's chapter of the American Woman's League.”
Wikipedia article Edwardsville Chapter House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1980 · 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. 515 W. High St., Edwardsville, 62025
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. building
Also known as. American Woman's League Chapter Houses TR
Township. Edwardsville township
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
Architect. Helfensteller, Hirsch & Watson
National Register reference number. 80001392 - 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

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Edwardsville Chapter House in 2001, burning under an acre 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

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
5 December 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

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 Edwardsville Chapter House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
	Madison County Pit	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

51 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edwardsville, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 25 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 2 tornado, 1 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
February 1999	Hail	Edwardsville	$200,000	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	$100,000	A late night thunderstorm produced wind gusts around 70 mph causing widespread wind damage in Edwardsville. Most of the damage was due to downed trees and power lines. The storm carved a west path from North Main Street south to Goshen Road. Quite a few roofs and vehicles were damaged by downed trees and limbs.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	$15,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	$10,000	no account filed
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	$5,000	Several power poles were reported down north northeast of town.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	$2,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed large tree limbs which took down power lines. One line fell onto the roof of a house causing a brief fire.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	$200	Ham radio spotters reported several large trees and limbs down along Highway 159.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees, tree limbs and power lines in Edwardsville and Glen Carbon.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
April 2008	Hail	Edwardsville	-	Nickel to quarter size hail cover the ground in the Edwardsville area.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	A line of strong to severe thunderstorms moved across eastern parts of the St. Louis Metro area. Around 930 pm...one of these storms produced a downburst with wind speeds estimated between 75 and 80 mph along Buena Vista Street in the Grandview Subdivision in Edwardsville. These damaging winds caused large 4 to 5 foot diameter trees to be uprooted, as well as numerous smaller trees. Several large trees were blown down on a couple of homes, causing extensive damage. No injuries were reported.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	Minor roof damage occurred to a building on the campus of SIUE. Also, several large trees were uprooted.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2006	Tornado (F0)	Edwardsville	-	A tornado briefly touched down in a open field south of Edwardsville near Illinois Route 159. No damage or injuries were reported.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some trees and power lines. Power was not restored in some areas until about 10 am the next morning.
July 2004	Tornado (F0)	Edwardsville	-	Local law enforcement reported a brief tornado in an open field east of Edwardsville.
December 2002	Hail	Edwardsville	-	Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail at the intersection of I-270 and Highway 111.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees on the north side of Edwardsville. Several roads were blocked by the downed trees.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts damaged the gutters on a house in Edwardsville. Some trees and power lines were also down in the area.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	Local law enforcement reported trees down on the north and east sides of the city.
August 2000	Hail	Edwardsville	-	Amateur radio spotters reported 1 inch hail southwest of Edwardsville.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
September 2008	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Funnel Cloud	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Edwardsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
John Weir House	0.2 miles	1983
Madison County Sheriff's House and Jail	0.2 miles	1980
Berlemann House	0.4 miles	1980
Narodni Sin	0.4 miles	2002
St. Louis Street Historic District	0.4 miles	1983
Benjamin Stephenson House	0.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001392 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 40 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.
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.