Roann-Paw Paw Township Public Library

Built in 1916 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Roann-Paw Paw Township Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Roann, Indiana. It was built in 1916, and is a one-story, rectangular, American Craftsman style brick building over a semi-recessed basement.”
Wikipedia article Roann-Paw Paw Township Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Wabash County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1916, American Craftsman.

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. Roann--Paw Paw Township Public Library - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 240 S. Chippewa Rd., Roann, 46974
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. building
Township. Paw Paw township
When was it built? 1916
Architectural style. American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 02001561 - 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.

Storms near this property

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roann, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Roann	$500	Large tree limbs down, including a 10-inch diameter branch near Adams and Church roads.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Roann	-	Hog barn destroyed by strong wind gust.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Roann	-	Law enforcement officials reported a trailer park was being flooded by high water, resulting in the evacuation of many of the residents. No damage estimates were available.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Roann	-	Emergency management officials reported several trees down in the Roann area.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Roann	-	Emergency management officials reported several empty grain bins blown over.
May 2011	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabash 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
Thomas J. Lewis House	0.2 miles	2006
Halderman-Van Buskirk Farmstead	0.2 miles	2013
Roann Historic District	0.2 miles	2013
Roann Covered Bridge, 4th	0.3 miles	1981
Stockdale Mill	1.0 miles	2004
Honeywell Studio	6.6 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001561 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wabash County	All 33 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.
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.