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Photograph of Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Nurses Home and Superintendent's House
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Nurse's Home and Superintendent's House (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Nurses Home and Superintendent's House is a historic tuberculosis sanatorium located at Crown Point, Indiana. The Nurses Home was built in 1930, and is a three-story, Georgian Revival style brick building on a raised concrete basement.”

Wikipedia article Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Nurses Home and Superintendent's House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 425 W. 93rd Ave., Crown Point, 46307
  • When was it listed? January 2013
  • Category. building
  • Township. Ross township
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 12001150 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Nurse's Home and Superintendent's House (Boundary Increase): 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
Lake County Sanatorium Nurses Homeunder 500 feet2005
Walter Allman House2.3 miles2010
Crown Point Courthouse Square Historic District (Boundary Adjustment)2.3 miles2005
Lake County Courthouse2.4 miles1973
Crown Point Courthouse Square Historic District (Boundary Increase II)2.4 miles2007
Crown Point Courthouse Square Historic District2.4 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12001150 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.
  • 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.