Leland Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Leland Hotel, also known as the Leland Motor Inn, is a historic hotel building located in Richmond, Indiana. It was built in 1928, and is a seven-story, U-shaped, Mission Revival style reinforced concrete building sheathed in light brown brick dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Leland Hotel (Richmond, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1985 · 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. 900 S. A St., Richmond, 47374
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. building
Township. Wayne township
National Register reference number. 85000362 - 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

58,967 words

The chapter on Wayne Township in History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872 names Richmond. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Wayne was one of the six townships formed after the adoption of the first state constitution. It probably contained about one-sixth part of the territory of the county. In forming Union county, in 1819, the greater part of Harrison was taken into that county, and the remainder was afterward annexed to AVayne township. By the formation of Boston and Abington, Wayne was reduced to its present dimensions. It is 7 miles wide on its south line, and al)0ut 6| miles on its north line, and is 8 miles in length, north and south, making an area of a little less than 55 square miles. It is watered, mainly, by the Whitewater river and its three branches, or forks. East Fork enters it centrally on its east line ; Middle Fork near the north-east corner, and the two joining about half a mile above the city. The AVest Fork, I'rom Randolph county, enters the township directly north from Richmond, and unites with the AVhite water just above the railroad brido-e. The Elkhorn, from Ohio, crosses tlie south-cast corner of the township. Short creek, a snudl stream, running a south-westerly direction, enters the W hitewater near the south line of the township. Lick creek, run-

Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.

Thomas Roberts, from North Carolina, settled on land now adjoining the city of Richmond, where he died, leaving the homestead in possession of his youngest son, Jonathan, who still resides on it. Walter, another son, in 1816, one mile west of Dover, where he now resides.

Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.

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 Wayne Township - 58,967 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Leland Hotel: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
A and D Excavation Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cain's Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Middleboro Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Richmond - #418	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

60 of 98 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richmond, the town this property stands in, in 98 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 53 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 12 flood, 8 flash flood. 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 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$200,000	Six homes were damaged on the south side of Richmond. Also, a barn was reported blown over and several trees were knocked down.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$80,000	There were two reports of roofs blown of buildings in Richmond due to thunderstorm winds. A school and a house also sustained roof damage. Numerous trees, tree limbs, and power lines were downed in the area.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$60,000	Four trees fell on a house. Numerous other trees were reported down in the area. A house sustained roof damage. A trailer was pushed onto a porch. The roof was blown off of a press box and a dugout at a stadium. These occurrences were due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2000	Tornado (F1)	Richmond	$40,000	Trees were knocked down throughout the city. A roof was blown off of a church on the 4700 block of National Road. Both a hotel and a restaurant sustained roof damage, and the hotel had a sign destroyed.
October 1998	Lightning	Richmond	$25,000	Lightning struck a home causing significant structural damage.
April 2011	Heavy Rain	Richmond	$20,000	Basements were flooded due to heavy rainfall.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$15,000	A roof was blown off of a building on South 8th Street.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$15,000	A large tree fell on two cars in Richmond due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$10,000	Numerous trees were downed in and around Richmond.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Richmond	$10,000	Several homes sustained basement flooding.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$10,000	Numerous trees downed.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$8,000	A tree was knocked down onto a house in the 800 block of Elk Country Club Road.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$8,000	A roof was peeled off of a house. Several trees were downed as well.
June 2008	Hail	Richmond	$8,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$7,000	Numerous full sized trees and power lines were knocked down in and around Richmond.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$7,000	Multiple trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. One tree fell on a house due to the winds.
April 2024	Flood	Richmond	$5,000	High water was reported on several roads in the Richmond area. The high water damaged a culvert pipe west of Porterfield Road.
November 2017	Flash Flood	Richmond	$5,000	Rising water was rushing into a home on Liberty Avenue, leading to a water rescue.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$5,000	Trees limbs were downed on power lines and a tree was downed due to thunderstorm winds.
March 2011	Flood	Richmond	$5,000	Numerous roads were flooded due to heavy rainfall.
February 2011	Flood	Richmond	$5,000	Numerous roads were closed due to high water.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$5,000	Trees were reported down in multiple areas north of Richmond.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$5,000	Several trees and power lines were downed, focused on the northwest and southeast areas of the county.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$5,000	Several trees and power poles were downed.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$5,000	Numerous trees were downed, including one on a home, causing minor damage.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$5,000	Several large limbs were downed at the Richmond Mall.
May 2001	Hail	Richmond	$5,000	Three-quarter inch diameter hail fell 2 miles northwest of Richmond and trees and power lines were knocked down in Richmond.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$5,000	Trees and power lines downed.
June 1999	Flash Flood	Richmond	$5,000	Standing water was reported in the city of Richmond. Flooded roads were also closed.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$5,000	Numerous trees and power lines downed.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$5,000	Numerous trees and power lines downed.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$5,000	Numerous trees and power lines were downed by high winds in Richmond and Williamsburg. Historic Templeton Cabin and another home in Richmond sustained damage from fallen trees. Richmond Airport measured 91 mph winds.
August 2007	Hail	Richmond	$5,000	no account filed
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$3,000	A hollow, full-sized tree fell onto a roof.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$3,000	Several trees downed due to thunderstorm winds from near Centerville to the south side of Richmond.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$3,000	Large limbs and power lines were downed in south Richmond due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$3,000	Damage occurred to road construction signs due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$3,000	Large tree limbs were downed in town.
March 2007	Flood	Richmond	$3,000	Roads were flooded and closed across the county.
March 2007	Flood	Richmond	$3,000	Numerous roads were flooded and closed across the county due to the heavy rainfall.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$3,000	Large tree limbs were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$3,000	A few trees were knocked down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$3,000	A few trees and power poles downed.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$3,000	Trees were downed on the north side of town.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$3,000	Numerous large limbs down.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$3,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$2,500	A tree was knocked over and a power pole was damaged.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$2,000	Several trees were downed in the Richmond area.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$2,000	Two trees were downed in the Richmond area due to thunderstorm winds.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$2,000	In addition to the wind gust, many trees were also reported down around the area due to the damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Richmond	$2,000	Old State Route 122 and US Route 27 were flooded between Boston and Richmond.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$2,000	One tree and large limbs were downed.
August 2007	Hail	Richmond	$2,000	Two trees were also downed.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$2,000	Large limbs and powerlines were knocked down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$2,000	Five trees were knocked down.
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$2,000	no account filed
June 2024	Flash Flood	Richmond	$1,000	A tree was downed over a road due to flood waters.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$1,000	A tree was downed.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$1,000	A tree was knocked down near the 700 block of 11th and 12th Streets.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Richmond	$1,000	A tree was uprooted at the corner of Richmond Avenue and Sedgwick Avenue.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Murray Theater	0.1 miles	1982
Bethel A.M.E. Church	0.3 miles	1975
Andrew F. Scott House	0.3 miles	1975
Hicksite Friends Meetinghouse (Wayne County Museum)	0.3 miles	1975
Old Richmond Historic District (Boundary Increase and Decrease)	0.3 miles	2003
Oliver P. and Mary Alice Gaar House	0.3 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000362 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 40 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.