Indiana and Michigan Avenues Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“Indiana and Michigan Avenues Historic District is a national historic district located at LaPorte, Indiana. The district encompasses 223 contributing buildings and one contributing site in a predominantly residential section of LaPorte.”
Wikipedia article Indiana and Michigan Avenues Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for LaPorte County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly Indiana & Michigan between Maple & Kingsbury Aves., La Porte, 46350
When was it listed? September 2014
Category. district
Township. Center township
National Register reference number. 14000807 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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 Indiana and Michigan Avenues Historic District: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Laporte City Eng.	Stone	Producer

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Francis H. Morrison House	0.3 miles	1984
Downtown LaPorte Historic District	0.7 miles	1983
Cedar Lodge	0.7 miles	2025
Scott-Rumley House	0.7 miles	2016
Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn	1.1 miles	1993
William Orr House	3.3 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000807 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
LaPorte County	All 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.
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.