Benjamin Schenck Mansion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Benjamin Schenck Mansion, also known as Schenck Mansion Bed and Breakfast, is an historic home located at Vevay, Indiana. It was built in 1874, and is a two-story, Italianate / Second Empire style brick mansion on a full basement.”
Wikipedia article Benjamin Schenck Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Switzerland 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Schenck, Benjamin, Mansion - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 206 W. Turnpike St., Vevay, 47043
When was it listed? October 2002
Category. building
Township. Jefferson township
Architectural style. Italianate architecture, Second Empire style
National Register reference number. 02001174 - 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.

Fires near this property

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Benjamin Schenck Mansion in 2004, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Benjamin Schenck Mansion: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Switzerland Co. Hwy. Dept.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Switzerland County

Storms near this property

37 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vevay, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 7 flash 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
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$50,000	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Vevay	$20,000	no account filed
April 2017	Flash Flood	Vevay	$10,000	A road was closed and water was reported in the lower levels of homes in Vevay.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$8,000	Several trees were downed on the east side of Vevay, primarily along Ohio Street and East Seminary Street.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$5,000	Trees and power lines were downed.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$5,000	Trees down around Vevay and near Markland Dam.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$5,000	no account filed
January 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$5,000	no account filed
April 1996	Flash Flood	Vevay	$5,000	no account filed
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$4,000	Several trees were reported down across the county due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$3,000	A few trees were knocked down along State Route 56 outside of Vevay.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$3,000	Trees were knocked down.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$3,000	Two trees fell in town.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$3,000	Trees downed.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$3,000	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$2,000	Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Vevay	$2,000	High water was reported over roads countywide due to heavy rainfall.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$2,000	Trees were downed throughout town.
September 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$1,000	A few large branches were downed onto power lines.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$1,000	One large tree was downed on Market Street and a few other tree limbs were downed in the town of Vevay due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$1,000	Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Vevay	$1,000	Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
February 2018	Flash Flood	Vevay	-	Multiple roads were closed throughout the county due to high water.
June 2009	Hail	Vevay	-	Three quarters of an inch to one inch hail was reported.
March 2006	Flash Flood	Vevay	-	State Route 56 was flooded in town.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Vevay	-	High water and debris closed State Route 56.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Vevay	-	Cole Road was closed by high water.
March 2024	Hail	Vevay	-	no account filed
March 2023	Hail	Vevay	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Vevay	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Vevay	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Vevay	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Vevay	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Vevay	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Vevay	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Vevay	-	no account filed
February 2002	Hail	Vevay	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Switzerland 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

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
Switzerland County Courthouse	0.3 miles	2009
Edward and George Cary Eggleston House	0.4 miles	1973
Vevay Historic District	0.4 miles	2019
Old Hoosier Theatre	0.4 miles	1982
Venoge Farmstead	1.3 miles	1997
Thiebaud Farmstead	3.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001174 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Switzerland County	All 9 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.