Eleutherian College

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1848 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1848, Greek Revival architecture · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. IN 250, Lancaster, 47250
When was it listed? December 1993
Category. building
Township. Lancaster township
When was it built? 1848
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 93001410 - 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.

Fires near this property

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Eleutherian College in 2002, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning	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
5 December 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

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 Eleutherian College: 1 past producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Jefferson Plant No 3 Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lancaster, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Multiple trees were blown down and a barn roof was damaged by strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Trees blew down in northern Jefferson County.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	There was a report of trees down near Lancaster.
March 2015	Flood	Lancaster	-	Heavy rain led to rapid rises on the Middle Fork Creek. This led to the washing out of State Road 250 near Lancaster.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	A local official reported several trees down along Indiana State Highway 52 near Danville.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Trees were blown down between Deputy and Lancaster.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	A tree was reported down with a storm that also produced pea-sized hail.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	A couple trees were downed.
June 1996	Hail	Lancaster	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House	0.2 miles	2003
	Oakdale School	4.9 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001410 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 14 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.
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.