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Bremen Water Tower

Built in 1892. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Bremen Water Tower, also known as Bremen Water Works Standpipe, is a historic water tower located at Bremen, Indiana. It was built in 1892, and consists of a 68 foot tall brick base with Second Gothic Revival style design elements topped by a 36 foot tall tank.”

Wikipedia article Bremen Water Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 2013 · category: Structure · built in 1892.

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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. W. side of 100 blk. of S. Jackson St., Bremen, 46506
  • When was it listed? January 2013
  • Category. structure
  • Township. German township
  • When was it built? 1892
  • National Register reference number. 12001152 - 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

366 words

The chapter on German Township in McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881 names Bremen. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Clayton was the name of the first town site located in German Township. This was August 21, 1837. The proprietors were Lathrop M. Taylor and Henry Augustine, of South Bend. Mr. Taylor was at that time Clerk of St. Joseph County. The location was about three miles east of the present town of Bremen. Its form was a diagonal, cut up into gorgeous streets and avenues. But the center of gravity did not seem to be in that region, and the project of building a town there was abandoned.

Passage source: McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881.

The town of Bremen, the present seat of justice of German Township, was platted and laid out by George Beiler October 21, 1851. The original plat contained forty-eight lots. Since that time, the following additions have been made to the original plat: Deitrick's, Heim's, Ringle's, Bauer's first and second, Foltz's continued, Mast's, L. R. Martin's, D. Ringle's, Koontz's, Vanner's and J. P. Huff's. The town was organized under the law authorizing the corporation of towns, at the March term, 1871, of the Board of Commissioners. It was divided into six districts. The officers first elected were: Lewis Theobold, Clerk and Treasurer; David Guyer, Marshal; Chris Seiler, Assessor; John Heckaman, Charles Lehr, Chris Hans, John Koontz, Jacob Walter and Chris Schilt, Trustees. In 1572, the town was re-districted, and the

Passage source: McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881.

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 German Township - 366 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bremen, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
June 2006LightningBremen2 hurt12 year old girl and 15 year old boy in a paddle boat struck by lightning. Occurred on Lake of the Woods. Children suffered severe burns. Officials reported no signs of lightning damage to paddle boat.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBremen$25,000Large tree of 18 to 24 inches in diameter was down onto a car.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBremen$25,000Trained spotters reported numerous trees down in Bremen. In addition, a local newspaper reported that the Bremen Ford dealership had several showroom windows blown out with some water damage. A nearby Chevrolet dealership found a hold in the rear window on a delivery van, but no evidence of what caused the damage. Damage is estimated in the area at $25,000.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBremen$10,000Trees down on power lines.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBremen$1,000Trees and power lines reported blown down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBremen-Trees down across much of Marshall County, especially from the northern end of the county near Teegarden to La Paz and Bremen along US 6.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBremen-The public reported several small branches and a few larger branches were blown down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBremen-A tree fell on a powerline on the 300 block of South Whitlock.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBremen-The public reported several trees down as well as at least one power pole in the Bremen area.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindBremen-Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down on South Washington Street.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBremen-The public estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBremen-Emergency management officials reported several travel campers being destroyed or blown off their blocks.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBremen-Emergency management officials reported a tree down in the 1800 block of U.S. 6.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindBremen-Tree blown over.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBremen-Law enforcement reported trees down in Bremen.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBremen-Large tree blown down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBremen-Several trees down in the northern part of the county,
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBremen-Trees were blown down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBremen-Two 6-inch-diameter trees were blown down.
March 2017HailBremen-no account filed
June 2012HailBremen-no account filed
June 2006HailBremen-no account filed
March 2004HailBremen-no account filed
June 1994HailBremen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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

4 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
Bremen Commercial Historic Districtunder 500 feet2017
Dietrich-Bowen House0.2 miles1978
Bremen Residential Historic District0.2 miles2017
Center Street Stone & Concrete Arch Bridge0.4 miles2026

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12001152 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marshall CountyAll 34 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.