Home Laundry Company

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Home Laundry Company is a historic laundry building located at Bloomington, Indiana, United States. The original section was built in 1922, and is a two-story, roughly square, red brick building.”
Wikipedia article Home Laundry Company, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2000 · 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. 300 E 3rd St., Bloomngton, 47401
When was it listed? March 2000
Category. building
Township. Perry township
National Register reference number. 00000208 - 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

8,019 words

This property stands in Perry Township. 1884 History of Monroe County Indiana, published 1884 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 Perry Township - 8,019 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

75 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Home Laundry Company between 2003 and 2008, burning about 35 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 were 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
Recreation and ceremony	22
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	11
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
31 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 August 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Home Laundry Company: 10 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Stone. 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
Bloomington Limestone	Stone	Producer
Acme Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Arlington Hills Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Arlington Mill	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Arlington Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Ashtone Mill	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Bennett Mill	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Buffalo Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Carl Furst Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Ed Bennett Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant	0.1 miles	2000
Legg House	0.2 miles	2001
Andrew Wylie House	0.2 miles	1977
Bloomington City Hall	0.2 miles	1989
Monroe Carnegie Library	0.2 miles	1978
Cantol Wax Company Building	0.3 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000208 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 48 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.