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Ottumwa City Hall is the official seat of government for the city of Ottumwa, Iowa, United States.The building originally served as a post office and federal courthouse. It is part of the Central Park area, which includes: Ottumwa Public Library, Wapello County Courthouse and St. Mary of the Visitation Catholic Chur
Ottumwa is the home of Indian Hills Community College, a two-year community college. Between 1928 and 1980, it was also home to Ottumwa Heights College, a women's college that merged with Indian Hills in 1979 to create one institution. Indian Hills is located at the former Ottumwa Heights campus.
Ottumwa Public Library is a public library located in downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. The current building was built in 1902. It is part of the Central Park area, which is the civic center of the community. It includes the Wapello County Courthouse, Ottumwa City Hall, and St. Mary of the Visitation Catholic Church.
In the 1950s, the smaller Dahlonega School District was absorbed into the Ottumwa School District. [3] (Dahlonega School No. 1 was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.) On July 1, 1991, it absorbed a portion of the former Hedrick Community School District, which was involuntarily dissolved by the State of Iowa. [4]
Old St. Mary's Church (right) and the courthouse. St. Mary of the Visitation Parish was established in 1849 when Bishop Mathias Loras of the Diocese of Dubuque sent the Rev. Jean Villars from St. John the Evangelist in Keokuk to purchase two lots for the church and rectory and a larger piece of land for a cemetery in Louisville, as Ottumwa was known at the time.
OHS is situated on one of the highest hills in Ottumwa. This view from the roof is a look at downtown Ottumwa. The main campus of Ottumwa High School consists of a four-story building in downtown Ottumwa. The hill on which the building sits was once the site of Chief Wapello's tribal village. Legend suggests he originally called the area ...
Trinity Episcopal Church is located in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. It is a parish church of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa. The building is a contributing property in the Fifth Street Bluff Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.
1200 block of N. Fellows St. and 1204-1212 N. Elm St. Ottumwa, Iowa: Coordinates: MPS: Post-World War II Development in Ottumwa, Ia 1944-1959 MPS: NRHP reference No. 11000723 [1] Added to NRHP: October 6, 2011