Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
From the record
“Mary's Institute of O'Fallon, also known as the Motherhouse for the Congregation of the Sisters of the Adoration of the Most Precious Blood, is a historic convent, school, and national historic district located at O'Fallon, St. The district encompasses 11 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site.”
Wikipedia article St. Mary's Institute of O'Fallon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 40 National Register listings published here for St. Charles County · listed in 2007 · category: District.
National Register reference number.07001106- 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
17 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 17 fires within 5 miles of St. Mary's Institute of O'Fallon
between 2005 and 2017, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
8
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Debris and open burning
2
Smoking
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of St. Mary's Institute of O'Fallon: 3 past producers, 1 producer.
1 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
O'Fallon, the town this property stands in, in 66 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 36 thunderstorm wind, 30 hail.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
A wide swath of damaging winds extended from O'Fallon through northern St. Peters to the Portage Des Sioux. In O'Fallon, numerous large tree limbs were blown down as well as a couple of trees and fences. A 5th wheel camper was rolled over at 370 Lakeside RV Campground. Three people were briefly trapped inside. All 3 sustained minor injuries. Two other campers were moved off their bases but not rolled over. At St Charles County Airport, Smartt Field, a small place was flipped over. A 71 mph wind gust was measured at the airport.
Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs and a couple of Bradford pear trees near Highway K and Winding Woods Drive. Also, a couple of fences sustained minor damage.
Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs and a large tree. One of the large tree limbs landed on an unoccupied pickup truck causing moderate damage.
Thunderstorm winds caused a wide swath of tree damage extending from O'Fallon through St. Peters and into St. Charles. Also, numerous power lines were blown down. One tree split in half and landed on the front porch of a home causing minor damage.
Numerous reports throughout O'Fallon of penny to nickel size hail covering the ground and causing some storm drains to be clogged...which caused ponding of water on the roadways.
Numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down. Also, a couple of trees were blown over as well as one power pole that was snapped off. Several cars sustained minor damage from fallen limbs.
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.
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.
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