[2] The building is architecturally significant as it is one of the few examples of a Gothic Revival style structure of this type in the area.

[3] It is a memorial chapel that follows a cross-shaped plan capped by an octagonal cupola with a statue of a Union soldier on top.

The Iowa legislature had passed a law in 1884 that allowed counties to levy a tax to support building G.A.R.

[1] In 2003 it was included as a contributing property in the Hampton Double Square Historic District.

This article about a property in Franklin County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.