Foley Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Foley Hall was a historic building located on the campus of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Sugar Creek Township, Vigo County, Indiana. The building consisted of a three-story, three wing, brick structure built in 1860, fronted by a Renaissance Revival style limestone addition built in 1897.”
Wikipedia article Foley Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Vigo County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. St. Mary of the Woods College Campus, Off US 150, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, 47876
When was it listed? March 1985
Category. building
Township. Sugar Creek township
National Register reference number. 85000595 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

35 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Foley Hall between 2001 and 2005, burning about 287 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	11
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 June 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Vigo County

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 Foley Hall: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Terre Haute City Eng.	Stone	Producer
Harlan Farm	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Terre Haute North Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Whitlock Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Vigo 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
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Historic District	0.1 miles	2017
Bethany Congregational Church	3.1 miles	2003
Collett Park	3.2 miles	1981
Collett Park Neighborhood Historic District	3.2 miles	2004
Twelve Points Historic District	3.6 miles	2005
State Bank of Indiana, Branch of (Memorial Hall)	3.8 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000595 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Vigo County	All 58 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.