Vermilyea Inn Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Vermilyea Inn Historic District is a national historic district located near Fort Wayne in Aboite Township, Allen County, Indiana. The district encompasses one contributing building, the Jesse Vermilyea House, and three contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article Vermilyea Inn Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Allen County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 13501 Redding Dr., Fort Wayne, 46783
When was it listed? December 2005
Category. district
Township. Aboite township
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 05001365 - 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Vermilyea Inn Historic District: 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ft. Wayne Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Fluorite Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite
Midwest Aggregates Pit 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Roanoke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Roanoke Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Allen County

Storms near this property

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Wayne, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Wayne	$8,000	Several automobiles were damaged by trees blown over in Fort Wayne.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Wayne	$5,000	Trees and power lines were downed on the north and east sides of Fort Wayne.
September 1997	Flash Flood	Fort Wayne	$1,000	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Fort Wayne	$500	One-inch diameter hail fell on the north side of Fort Wayne at Point Inverness at 2044EST; also one inch hail near United States 33 and Cook Road on the north side of Fort Wayne at 2050 EST.
July 1997	Flash Flood	Fort Wayne	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allen 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Horney Robinson House	4.3 miles	1985
	Robert M. Feustel House	7.6 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001365 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Allen County	All 81 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.