Allen School

Built in 1887. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Allen School is a historic school site located at 301 Main Street in La Moille, Illinois. The school was built in 1887 to relieve overcrowding in what was then La Moille's only school, which had been built in 1858.”
Wikipedia article Allen School (La Moille, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Bureau County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1887.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 301 Main St., LaMoille, 61330
When was it listed? February 1996
Category. building
Township. La Moille township
When was it built? 1887
National Register reference number. 96000081 - 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

617 words

This property stands in La Moille Township. Past and Present of Bureau County, Illinois, published 1906 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 Moille Township - 617 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

2 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
	First Congregational Church of LaMoille	under 500 feet	1996
	Wood-Tellkamp House	0.2 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000081 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bureau County	All 19 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.