Photograph of Eureka College Administration Building and Chapel — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Eureka College Administration and Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Eureka College Administration Building and Chapel are the two oldest buildings on the campus of Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois. The administration building was built in 1858; as the campus became too large to fit in one building, the chapel was added in 1869.”
Wikipedia article Eureka College Administration Building and Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Woodford 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

Address. 300 College Ave., Eureka, 61530
When was it listed? May 1980
Category. building
Township. Olio township
National Register reference number. 80001426 - 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

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Eureka College Administration and Chapel between 2010 and 2016, burning about 36 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	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	WOODFORD CO
27 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	WOODFORD
19 February 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	FULLER
7 October 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	71064

Every fire recorded in Woodford County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Eureka College Administration and Chapel: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Ira Rokey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lakeview Realty Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Quast Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Schroeder Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Woodford County

Storms near this property

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 19 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 tornado. The reports record 4 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
May 2003	Tornado (F2)	Eureka	4 hurt	As the tornado crossed from Tazewell County into Woodford County it increased in intensity. It destroyed several homes, outbuildings and businesses along US 24 before clipping the northwestern side of Eureka damaging several homes there. As it traveled to the northeast, additional homes sustained damage as well as trees, power lines, power poles, sheds and outbuildings. It moved through the extreme northern portions of Roanoke before lifting and dissipating one mile north of Roanoke. Several homes in this area sustained damage. Overall, 4 people sustained minor injuries.
May 2000	Hail	Eureka	$300,000	Over 100 cars sustained hail damage in the Eureka and Roanoke areas. Damage is estimated around $300,000.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	$50,000	Power lines were blown down in Eureka.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	$40,000	Power poles were snapped on the southwest side of Eureka.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	$20,000	Several trees were damaged in Eureka.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	$20,000	Power lines were blown down onto Rt. 24.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	$20,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down in Eureka.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	$15,000	Around a dozen oak trees were sheared off by high winds at Lake Eureka.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	$10,000	Power poles were blown down on the west side of Eureka.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	$10,000	Two and a half to three-foot diameter tree branches were blown down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	$3,000	A large tree was uprooted.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	$1,000	A stop sign was bent over and construction barricades were scattered across the road at Highway 24 and Deemack Road.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	Several tree limbs were blown down, one of which hit a power line and led to a power outage.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	A few 2 to 4-inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
August 2011	Hail	Eureka	-	Spotters reported penny sized hail near Eureka.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	114 power poles (7 miles worth) were blown down near a substation near Roanoke. Other power poles were blown down near Eureka and minor structural damage occurred.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2004	Tornado (F1)	Eureka	-	The tornado touched down 1.5 miles southeast of Eureka and traveled to the east northeast. Three miles southwest of Secor it destroyed 2 farm buildings, a grain bin and a corn crib. From there it blew down numerous trees, destroyed two old farm buildings, moved hay bales and threw a medium sized gas tank half a mile into a field. The tornado then lifted 2 miles northeast of Secor. No injuries were reported.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power poles.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in Eureka, Roanoke, Minonk, and El Paso.
May 2003	Tornado (F1)	Eureka	-	A tornado touched down east of Eureka, paralleling the track of the earlier tornado in Woodford County. It blew down numerous trees and power lines. Also, it destroyed several barns and out buildings and caused minor damage to a couple of homes. No injuries were reported.
March 2026	Hail	Eureka	-	no account filed
March 2023	Hail	Eureka	-	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Eureka	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Eureka	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Eureka	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Eureka	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Eureka	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Eureka	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodford 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

3 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
Eureka College Campus Historic District	0.1 miles	2010
Stevenson, Adlai E., I, House	7.2 miles	1980
Metamora Courthouse	7.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001426 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Woodford 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.
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.