LaHarpe City Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The La Harpe City Hall, located at 207 East Main Street, is the historic city hall serving La Harpe, Illinois. Built in 1894, it housed City Council meetings as well as the town's police and fire departments.”
Wikipedia article La Harpe City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Hancock 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. 207 E. Main St., LaHarpe, 61450
When was it listed? November 1991
Category. building
Township. La Harpe township
National Register reference number. 91001689 - 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.

The ground it stands on

3,314 words

This property stands in La Harpe Township. History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on La Harpe Township - 3,314 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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
	LaHarpe Historic District	0.1 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001689 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hancock County	All 9 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.