BlockFrom the record
One of 81 National Register listings published here for Allen County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
St. Rose de Lima Roman Catholic Church and Rectory
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 209 Mulberry St. and 206 Summit St., Monroeville, 46773
- When was it listed? August 2020
- Category. building
- Township. Monroe township
- National Register reference number. 100005514 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
7,433 wordsThe chapter on Monroe Township in History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880 names Monroeville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Samuel Clem came- in February, 1841, and settled on Section 28. He was an enterprising man, and, during his life, did much for the advancement of the township. John Stephenson came in the spring of 1841, and settled on Section 4, where he still resides. James Savage and Peter Barnhart settled near the present site of Monroeville, in the same year (1841). Mr. Savage subsequently removed to Fort Wayne, where he died. Mr. Barnhart died at his home in this township.
Passage source: History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880.
The first store was kept by Martin Kemp, at East Liberty, soon after the founding of that village. He had a stock of liquors, and a- few articles of mer¬ chandise; but his store was not a profitable institution, and after a short resi¬ dence, he removed to another locality. After his removal, Judge Reynolds and James Patterson opened, at East Liberty, a stock of general merchandise, and conducted a successful business for several years. They finally sold to Peter Whipky and David Studebaker, by whom the business was conducted until the decline of the village, consequent upon the trade being diverted from this center to Monroeville.
Passage source: History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880.
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 Monroe Township - 7,433 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Storms near this property
14 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monroeville, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 hail, 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroeville | $30,000 | Numerous trees and several semi trailers knocked over. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Monroeville | $15,000 | Two people were rescued from their vehicle after trying to drive through a flooded road and drove into a ditch. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroeville | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Monroeville | - | Emergency management and law enforcement officials reported high, flowing water over several roads along the south side of Fort Wayne east into Monroeville as anywhere from five to almost seven inches of rain fell. State Route 1 from Interstate 469 south to Hamilton Road was closed due to water covering the road. Trier ditch overflowed over Tillman Road between Hessen Cassel and Adams Center Roads. Several cars were stranded in parking lots with one in a ditch in Monroeville due to the high water. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroeville | - | Law enforcement officials reported two-thirds of a roof from a 140 foot hog barn was blown off. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroeville | - | A trained spotter reported widespread tree damage in Monroeville. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroeville | - | Trained spotter estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroeville | - | Trained spotter reports numerous trees and branches down in Monroeville with estimated 60-70 mph gusts. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroeville | - | A trained spotter reported wind gusts measures to 75 mph with power lines down in Monroeville. |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Monroeville | - | BRIEF TOUCHDOWN |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Monroeville | - | BRIEF TOUCHDOWN |
| March 2016 | Hail | Monroeville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Monroeville | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroeville | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Besancon St. Louis Historic District | 6.6 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005514 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.