Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
“Dune Acres Clubhouse is a historic clubhouse located at Dune Acres, Indiana. It was built in 1925, and is a three-story, Bungalow / American Craftsman style building.”
Wikipedia article Dune Acres Clubhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Porter County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Westchester Township. Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1882; History of Porter County, Indiana : a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, published 1912 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Westchester Township - 16,139 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Dune Acres Clubhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 261 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 16 were 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 | 62 |
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 27 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Fireworks | 15 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Other causes | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | BEV SHOR 4 |
| 7 September 2001 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | TAB FIRE |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | TREMONT STUMP |
| 6 September 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | GROUNDFIRE |
| 4 September 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | MILL |
| 30 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | STEEL FIRE |
| 3 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | HANDCREW |
| 24 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | BURNS DITCH |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dune Acres Clubhouse: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorenz Brothers Pit Number 1 | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Zehner Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dune Acres, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | Flood | Dune Acres | $100,000 | Several roads were closed due to flooding. Numerous basements were flooded. The Chesterton wastewater plant measured 3.25 inches of rainfall. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dune Acres | $1,000 | Several trees were blown down on top of power lines and phone lines at Indiana Dunes State Park. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dune Acres | - | One large tree was blown down at the Indiana Dunes State Park. Four other trees were partially blown into other trees. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Dune Acres | - | Interstate 94 was closed from Chesterton to the Porter-Laporte county line due to flooding. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Dune Acres | - | no account filed |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cowles Bog | 0.8 miles | 2025 | |
 | Joseph Bailley Homestead | 1.8 miles | 1966 |
| Nike Missile Site C-32 | 2.1 miles | 2025 | |
 | Good Fellow Club Youth Camp | 2.2 miles | 2013 |
| Edward Astoria and Margaret Wilson House | 2.2 miles | 2025 | |
 | Porter Town Hall | 2.6 miles | 2000 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 06001295 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Porter County | All 42 listed properties in this county. |
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