Old Main (Iowa Wesleyan University)

Old Main is an historic building located on the Iowa Wesleyan University campus in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. Built in 1854, when James Harlan was the college's president, it is the second building constructed on the campus after Pioneer Hall.[2] It is believed that Old Main was the first genuine collegiate building built in Iowa.[3] The bricks for the building were manufactured locally by Benjamin Franklin Pearson of Keosauqua, Iowa, who also was responsible for some of the building's construction.[4] The three-story building has modified classical features. It was designed to have classrooms on the first two floors and the library, natural history museum and chapel on the third floor. The building is capped with a hip roof with bracketed eaves, and a wooden cupola with a low dome painted gold.

Old Main
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Iowa Wesleyan University campus Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Coordinates	40°58′26.4″N 91°33′11.6″W
Built	1854
Built by	Benjamin Franklin Pearson
NRHP reference No.	73000727[1]
Added to NRHP	March 26, 1973

The International P.E.O. Sisterhood was founded in the building.[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]