BlockFrom the record
One of 37 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
American House Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 205 Michigan Rd., Burlington, 46915
- When was it listed? September 2018
- Category. building
- Township. Burlington township
- National Register reference number. 100002859 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
148 wordsThis property stands in Burlington Township. History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 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 Burlington Township - 148 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Storms near this property
16 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burlington, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burlington | $40,000 | Tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts onto a house. Other trees in the yard snapped. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burlington | $15,000 | A barn roof was torn off, multiple large trees were downed, and a power line was down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burlington | $6,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were down on roadways due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Burlington | $5,000 | County Dispatch reported several roads in Burlington had water flowing over them with a focus on the south side of town due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burlington | $3,000 | Two chicken houses were destroyed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Burlington | $3,000 | Roads were reportedly washed out and covered with water at the intersections of State Route 29 and County Road 325 South and 325 South. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burlington | $2,000 | An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. Two foot diameter trees were reported to be uprooted as well. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burlington | $700 | A 6-inch diameter tree was blown down on State Road 29 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Burlington | - | No damage estimates were available. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burlington | - | Trees were downed. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burlington | - | A grain bin was blown down just south of Burlington. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burlington | - | Large trees were downed, and damage was done to a building at the park. A house lost the canopy over the porch. No damage estimates were available. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Burlington | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Burlington | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burlington | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Flood | Burlington | - | no account filed |
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
4 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington Township No. 9 School | 1.8 miles | 2019 | |
| Wagoner-Ayres House | 4.9 miles | 2024 | |
 | Adams Mill | 5.9 miles | 1984 |
 | Adams Mill Covered Bridge | 6.1 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002859 in Record Group 79. |
| Carroll County | All 37 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.