Gene Stratton Porter Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Gene Stratton-Porter Cabin, known as the Cabin at Wildflower Woods and the Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site, is the former home of Gene Stratton-Porter, a noted Indiana author, naturalist, and nature photographer. The two-story, fourteen-room cabin, which was built in 1914, is located at Sylvan Lake near Rome City in Noble County, Indiana.”
Wikipedia article Gene Stratton-Porter Cabin (Rome City, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Noble County · listed in 1974 · 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

Listed as. Porter, Gene Stratton, Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. SE of Rome City off IN 9, Rome City, 46784
When was it listed? June 1974
Category. building
Township. Orange township
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. Gene Stratton-Porter
National Register reference number. 74000015 - 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gene Stratton Porter Cabin: 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Elmer's Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Suever Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Varner Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wolcottville Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Noble County

Storms near this property

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rome City, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	$13,000	Several large trees uprooted. Moderate shingle damage.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	$5,000	Utility pole down on house.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	$5,000	Large trees down. Large shed destroyed.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	$2,000	Trees down reported by Noble County sheriff's office.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	$1,000	Several healthy 1 foot diameter tree limbs were downed.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	EM reports power lines down.
November 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	Emergency management officials reported two large trees were blown down onto power lines on Spring Beach Road.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	The public reported a tree was blown down onto State Route 9, partially blocking the road.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	Emergency management officials reported 16 homes with roof damage, mostly minor.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	Trees and power lines were reported down across the county, with Rome City being hit the hardest.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	Local officials reported a large tree was blown down in the 9000 block of North Steinbarger Road.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	Emergency management officials reported a large tree branch was blown down across County Road 125 West at the west end of Waldron Lake.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	A local newspaper reported that six mature trees were blown down at a residence about 4 miles east of Rome City. One tree fell onto a driveway, barely missing a parked car.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	County officials reported a tree down onto a power line in Rome City.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	The Rome City Fire Department reported trees down in town.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in Rome City.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	Law enforcement reported power lines down in Rome City.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	Trees and power lines down.
April 2001	Hail	Rome City	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Rome City	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Rome City	-	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Noble 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Kneipp Springs Historic District	2.1 miles	2018
Brimfield School No. 2	3.0 miles	2019
Iddings-Gilbert-Leader-Anderson Block	5.0 miles	1987
Kendallville Downtown Historic District	5.0 miles	2003
Albion Courthouse Square Historic District	7.0 miles	2013
Noble County Courthouse	7.1 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000015 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Noble County	All 15 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.