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Photograph of South Grade School Building
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

South Grade School Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“South Grade School Building, also known as the Administration Building, Twin Lakes School Corporation, is a historic two-room school building located at Monticello, Indiana. It was built in 1892, and is a brick building with a gable on hip roof.”

Wikipedia article South Grade School Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for White 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 listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 565 S. Main St., Monticello, 47960
  • When was it listed? September 1985
  • Category. building
  • Township. Union township
  • National Register reference number. 85002136 - 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.

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 South Grade School Building: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Keeport QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this property

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monticello, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMonticello$100,000White County has several trees and power poles down. Reports of damage to houses and buildings. A church in Reynolds lost its steeple. A tree fell into the front room of a house. Siding was blown off a house in Reynolds. A tree fell onto a car in Monticello.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindMonticello$30,000WIDESPREAD DAMAGE OCCURRED TO TREES...POWER LINES...SIGNS AND POWER POLES ACROSS THE TOWN.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMonticello$25,000Extensive tree and power line damage reported in town with electric and telephone service out to much of the town.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindMonticello$5,000Emergency management officials reported scattered trees and power lines down around Monticello.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMonticello$5,000Trees and powerlines down in Monticello reported by county sheriff department.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Healthy trees fell on power lines. In addition, numerous tree branches of unknown size were down.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Emergency management officials reported numerous trees and power lines down across Monticello and surrounding areas.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Law enforcement officials reported trees down across the county.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMonticello-County officials reported trees and power lines down along Riverview Road.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindMonticello-The public reported a tree was uprooted in Monticello.
July 2012HailMonticello-A spotter reported nickel size hail, along with wind gusts to 40 mph.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Law enforcement officials reported two trees down as well as a power pole.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Several small trees were down around the Monticello area.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Several large trees down.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Monticello-As the storms which produced wind damage in and west of Monticello merged and became stronger, resulting in several brief tornado touchdowns along US 24 east of Monticello. Spotters and law enforcement officials reported several weak funnels that would touchdown and lift. The first touchdown occurred just east of Monticello around 315 pm EDT with touchdowns at 320 pm EDT in Idaville and the last touchdown in White county occurring around 325 pm EDT in Burnettsville. Damage was confined to trees and tree limbs at the points of touchdown. The circulation proceeded into extreme western Cass county.
June 2005HailMonticello-Pea to nickle size hail was reported mixed with heavy rainfall.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Law enforcement reported numerous trees and power lines down west of Monticello.
June 2004Flash FloodMonticello-Emergency management reported several roads across the county closed due to water over 2 foot deep flowing across them.
August 2004Flash FloodMonticello-Emergency management reported flash flooding with a motor home stranded in water and surrounding streets flooded in Monticello.
August 2004Flash FloodMonticello-Emergency management reported flash flooding with water in homes on the north side of Monticello.
August 2004Flash FloodMonticello-Law enforcement reported flash flooding with many streets flooded and impassible in Monticello.
August 2004Flash FloodMonticello-Law enforcement reported flash flooding with widespread street flooding with many locations impassible in Monticello.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Monticello-Emergency management reported a brief tornado touchdown 5 miles east of Monticello. Several witnesses said the tornado damaged some trees as it was on the ground for a few seconds.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Trees down
October 2001Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Law enforcement reported trees down in Monticello.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Numerous trees down and power lines down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Numerous tree limbs and power lines were downed. Extensive flooding of roads occurred, mainly east of Route 39.
August 1993HailMonticello-Trees and power poles were downed east of Monticello.
August 2007HailMonticello-no account filed
June 2005HailMonticello-no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindMonticello-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Monticello Carnegie Library0.6 miles2013
James Culbertson Reynolds House0.8 miles1982
White County Asylum3.2 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002136 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White CountyAll 5 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.