Normal Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Normal Hall, also known as Ladoga Normal School, Ladoga High School, and American Legion Post #324, is a historic school building located at Ladoga, Indiana. It was built in 1878, and is a two-story, three bay by six bay, Greek Revival / Italianate style brick building.”
Wikipedia article Normal Hall (Ladoga, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1996 · 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. Jct. of W. Main and Harrison Sts., NW corner, Ladoga, 47954
When was it listed? January 1996
Category. building
Township. Clark township
National Register reference number. 95001533 - 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.

Storms near this property

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ladoga, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladoga	$150,000	Power pole and tree snapped by thunderstorm wind gusts. Extensive damage reported across much of the county with over 4000 power outages.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladoga	$40,000	A trailer was flipped and destroyed by straight line winds.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladoga	$8,000	An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was reported near the Montgomery/Putnam county line. Five to fifteen trees were damaged.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladoga	$5,000	Trees and large branches blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Ladoga	$2,000	Several county roads were flooded due to heavy rain that caused flash flooding.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladoga	$1,250	Tree limbs and a power line were reported down in this location.
April 2013	Hail	Ladoga	-	Winds estimated at 50 mph were also observed in this location.
April 2013	Hail	Ladoga	-	A 45 mph thunderstorm wind gust was also observed.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladoga	-	An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location and was accompanied by nickel sized hail.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladoga	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 65 miles per hour in Ladoga.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladoga	-	Power lines and trees were downed.
May 2001	Tornado (F0)	Ladoga	-	Storm spotter reported a tornado touchdown in a corn field. No damage reported.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladoga	-	Trees were downed.
March 2020	Hail	Ladoga	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Ladoga	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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

1 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
	Ashby	2.5 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001533 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 22 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.
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.