Vurpillat's Opera House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Vurpillat's Opera House is a historic opera house located at Winamac, Indiana. It was built in 1883, and is a three-story, rectangular, Second Empire style brick building with a mansard roof.”
Wikipedia article Vurpillat's Opera House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Market and Main Sts., Winamac, 46996
When was it listed? March 2002
Category. building
Township. Monroe township
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number. 02000201 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Vurpillat's Opera House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Pulaski Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer
	Roth Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this property

27 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winamac, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail. 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
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	$30,000	Numerous reports of trees and power lines down were received across the county.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	$10,000	Grain elevator damaged.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	$10,000	Trees down. Large limbs on cars. Minor roof damage to church.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	$3,000	A few trees were blown down. One tree limb was blown down onto a car. A carport was blown off of a house and a dog kennel blown across a yard. Damage is estimated at $3,000.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	$1,000	Large tree down blocking E Hutchinson Rd.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	Reported from MPing.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	Trees down on 12th and Market St. in Winamac.
November 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	The public reported a 30 foot tall, seven inch diameter healthy tree was snapped in half.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	The public reported several branches as well as a few small trees blown down.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	Law enforcement officials reported numerous trees down across northern parts of the county, especially north of Winamac.
June 2013	Hail	Winamac	-	Emergency management officials reported golf ball size hail near Winamac.
June 2013	Hail	Winamac	-	A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail, which lasted for around two minutes. There was some minor damage to vehicles in the area.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 70 mph. Several two to four inch diameter branches were blown down in the area.
June 2008	Hail	Winamac	-	Hail up to the size of quarters covered the ground.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	A tree was blown down in a local park.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	Numerous trees down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	Trees were blown down.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	Law enforcement reported trees down in and around Winamac.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	Law enforcement reported trees down east of Winamac.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	Law enforcement reported trees down northwest of Winamac.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	Trees and power lines down. Reported by COOP Observer.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Winamac	-	Trees down.
June 2008	Hail	Winamac	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Winamac	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Winamac	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Winamac	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Winamac	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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.

Listed places nearby

4 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
Pulaski County Courthouse	under 500 feet	2007
Dr. George W. Thompson House	0.2 miles	1984
Pulaski County Home	0.7 miles	2015
Tepicon Hall	6.8 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000201 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pulaski County	All 10 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.
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.