Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
From the record
“Claude Rumsey House, also known as the Rumsey-Nomanson House, is a historic home located at 709 Michigan Avenue in Lowell, Indiana. It was built in 1906, and is a 2-story, Queen Anne stick built home with a cross-gable roof.”
Wikipedia article J. Claude Rumsey House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 88 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.08001211- 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 J. Claude Rumsey House: 1 producer, 1 past producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lowell, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 23 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 tornado, 2 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.
This strong tornado touched down near the intersection of Clark St and Belshaw Rd and ended slightly east of Harrison St. Outbuildings as well as two large grain bins were destroyed, and numerous large high-tension wood power poles were snapped. There was also numerous trees snapped and uprooted along with crop damage. Maximum winds were estimated to 115 mph.
This tornado started near Cline Avenue southwest of the community of Lowell and ended near W. 197th Rd. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. Maximum winds were estimated to 100 mph.
Evidence of significant straight line winds up to 90 mph included seven snapped power poles and an approximately mile wide swath of corn crop that was completely flattened and trees snapped. In Lowell, a trained spotter measured 63 mph wind gusts while a mesonet site measured 86 mph wind gusts.
Storm total rainfall of 2.68 inches was measured by a private weather station with most of the rain falling in one hour between 12:30 CST and 13:30 CST.
Through pictures and other data provided by the Lake County, Indiana Emergency Management Agency, as well as trained storm spotters, a short lived EF-0 tornado was confirmed on the outskirts of the community of Lowell. The actual tornado may have very briefly lifted once or twice during its 2 to 3 minute duration, per reports and damage. The damage was limited mostly to trees, with portions of a few large trees downed including one on a home. There was also some shingle damage on another home, multiple fences damaged and one utility pole snapped and others damaged.
Several roads and intersections were closed due to flooding, including 159th Street between Cline Avenue and Parrish due to one foot of standing water, 169th between the Illinois state line and Whiteoak due to one foot of standing water and 169th between Whiteoak and Sheffield.
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.
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.
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