Magruder Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

one of 27 National Register listings in Champaign County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 16 S. Main St., Mechanicsburg, 43044
When was it listed? 1985-08-29
Category. building
Also known as. Mechanicsburg MRA
Township. Goshen township
National Register reference number. 85001886 - 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.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 87 specimens collected within 10 miles of Magruder Building between 1902 and 1973: 42 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 17 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Beattie R. K., Brodo, Irwin M. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Aecidium ranunculi Schwein.	1902	Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.	Brush Lake
Cintractia junci (Schwein.) Trel.	1902	Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.	Brush Lake
Frommea obtusa (F.Strauss) Arthur	1902	J. H. Schaffner; F. J. Tyler
Phragmidium potentillae (Pers.) P.Karst.	1902	J. H. Schaffner & F. J. Tyler	Brush Lake
Puccinia eatoniae Arthur	1902	J. H. Schaffner; F. J. Tyler	Brush Lake
Puccinia minutissima Arthur	1902	J. H. Schaffner; F. J. Tyler	Brush Lake
Puccinia myosotidis Tranzschel	1902	Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.	Brush Lake
Puccinia nesaeae (W.R.Gerard) Ellis & Everh.	1902	J. H. Schaffner & F. J. Tyler	Brush Lake
Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr.	1902	J. H. Schaffner & F. J. Tyler	Brush Lake
Macrosporium catalpae Ellis & G.Martin	1908	Rogers H. C.	Mechanicsburg
Erysiphe cichoracearum DC.	1918	Wing Seed Co.?	Mechanicsburg
Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.	1922	Selby A. D.; Selby Linville	Mechanicsburg

All 87 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mechanicsburg, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Mechanicsburg	$50,000	Trees and powerlines were downed in town. Two barns sustained extensive roof damage.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Mechanicsburg	$10,000	A thunderstorm produced strong winds which destroyed a barn and ripped the roof off a front porch. One inch hail also occurred.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Mechanicsburg	$10,000	Numerous trees downed.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Mechanicsburg	$10,000	Numerous trees downed and a roof blown off a barn.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mechanicsburg	$5,000	Several trees were downed along South Main Street between Rosedale Road and \|Darby Avenue.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mechanicsburg	$3,000	Trees were knocked down near the intersection of State Routes 29 and 559.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mechanicsburg	$3,000	Power poles and lines were knocked down.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mechanicsburg	$2,000	Trees were reported down on power lines due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mechanicsburg	$1,000	Large branches and wires were knocked down in Mechanicsburg and elsewhere across southern portions of Champaign County.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mechanicsburg	$1,000	A tree was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mechanicsburg	$500	A tree was downed.
June 2006	Flood	Mechanicsburg	-	A few roads were flooded.
November 2002	Hail	Mechanicsburg	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Mechanicsburg	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Mechanicsburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Champaign 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.

From the nomination file

956 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

Description of the property

clarity Present Use alterations/integrity RETURN Substantive Review: nomination by person or local government Reviewer's comments: 8-29-85 Public Acquisition owner objection Recom./Criteria Check one EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Has this property been determined eligible? Magruder Building (Mechanicsburg MRA) Entered in the NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 3. Classification Accessible Date Due: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Register ("R" June 1984) fair Date Due: 8/15/85 good 85001886 - Other 11. Form Prepared By _local - Photographs Signed . Phone: _ Date context completeness Builder/Architect title Maps Period clarity state applicable criteria national justification of exception UTM References Acreage of nominated property relating

The whole case file for this property - 956 words, 8 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 85001886, 8 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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
Second Baptist Church	under 500 feet	1985
Village Hobby Shop	under 500 feet	1985
Clark, Dr., House	0.1 miles	1985
Lowler's Tavern	0.1 miles	1985
Masonic Temple	0.1 miles	1985
Hamer's General Store	0.1 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001886 in Record Group 79.
Champaign County	All 27 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.