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Albert Maack House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Albert Maack House is a historic home located at Crown Point, Indiana, United States. It was built in 1913, and is a Tudor Revival style brick dwelling with a cross gable roof sheathed in clay tile.”

Wikipedia article Albert Maack House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Maack, Albert, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 498 Court St., Crown Point, 46307
  • When was it listed? June 2011
  • Category. building
  • Township. Center township
  • National Register reference number. 11000383 - 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.

The ground it stands on

66 words

This property stands in Center Township. A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet Region, published 1915 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers varied and beautiful, first settlement, the avarriners, cedar lake's early fame, the taylors and their connections, calvin lilley and his hotel doctor lilley ivnd adonijah taylor.

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 Center Township - 66 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Albert Maack House in 2004, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Albert Maack House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lake Co. Hwy. Dept.StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crown Point, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCrown Point-Downed branches and structure damage were reported near Lane St and W 105th Ave.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCrown Point-A 4 to 5 foot diameter maple tree was uprooted at Main Street and Franciscan Drive.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCrown Point-A photo shared on social media showed possible damage to a shed on the north side of Crown Point.
June 2025Heavy RainCrown Point-An observer in Crown Point reported 1.55 of rainfall in a 45 minute period.
July 2025FloodCrown Point-Localized street flooding was reported in Crown Point including a disabled car in high water in the 1200 block of Arrowhead Court.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCrown Point-Numerous tree limbs were blown down in an area southwest of Route 231 and west of Interstate 65. A few trees were uprooted, some trees were snapped. Some corn crops were also flattened in this area.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCrown Point-Several instances of tree damage were reported in Crown Point as well as a fence that had been blown down. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCrown Point-A trained spotter estimated 50-55 mph sustained winds with 65-70 mph gusts at 129th Ave and Delaware St southeast of Crown Point.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCrown Point-A trained spotter reported a large pine tree had snapped in Crown Point.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCrown Point-A large tree limb was blown down in front of the historic courthouse in Crown Point.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindCrown Point-A photo shared on social media showed a utility pole and power lines blown down onto a house.
August 2021Heavy RainCrown Point-Rainfall of 2.86 inches was measured in one hour with the majority falling in 30 minutes.
June 2019Heavy RainCrown Point-Storm total rainfall of 2.93 inches was measured.
September 2019Flash FloodCrown Point-Flood waters several feet deep were reported near Lake Street and Greenwood Avenue. Part of a residential street and sidewalk were washed out near a retention pond. Storm total rainfall of 5.44 inches was measured in Crown Point.
June 2014FloodCrown Point-A few roadways were flooded in Crown Point with water rising past car bumpers.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCrown Point-Multiple large trees were uprooted along with large branches and power lines that were blown down.
June 1995HailCrown Point-Indiana State Police reported dime- to penny-size hail on Interstate 65 between Crown Point and Merrillville.
February 2024HailCrown Point-no account filed
March 2023HailCrown Point-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
William Whitaker Landscape and House0.1 miles1999
Crawford-Winslow House0.4 miles2013
Wellington A. Clark House0.5 miles2001
Lake County Sheriff's House and Jail0.5 miles1989
Crown Point Courthouse Square Historic District (Boundary Increase II)0.6 miles2007
Crown Point Courthouse Square Historic District0.6 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000383 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake CountyAll 88 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.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • 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.