Photograph of John O'Ferrell Store — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Olde Store (John O'Ferrell Store)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“John O'Ferrell Store, also known as "Olde Store", is a historic general store located at Mongo, Indiana. It was built in 1832, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style frame building, with later 19th century additions.”
Wikipedia article John O'Ferrell Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for LaGrange County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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. West and 2nd Sts., Mongo, 46746
When was it listed? October 1975
Category. building
Township. Springfield township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 75000024 - 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

799 words

This property stands in Springfield Township. Illustrated Historical Atlas of LaGrange County, Indiana., published 1874 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 Springfield Township - 799 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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 Olde Store (John O'Ferrell Store): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Brighton Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Storms near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mongo, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mongo	$15,000	Downed powerlines on SR 120 between CR 110 E and CR 900.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mongo	-	Amateur radio operators reported a large tree blocking State Route 3, just south of Mongo.
July 2008	Hail	Mongo	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Mongo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaGrange 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

5 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
Bloomfield Township Graded School	5.5 miles	2022
Samuel P. Williams House	7.6 miles	1980
La Grange County Courthouse	7.7 miles	1980
John Badlam Howe Mansion	7.9 miles	1995
St. James Memorial Chapel	8.0 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000024 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
LaGrange County	All 10 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.
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.