George Ade House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“George Ade House, also known as Hazelden, is a two-story, fourteen-room, Tudor Revival-style home in Iroquois Township, Newton County, Indiana. Chicago architect Billie Mann designed the frame dwelling, built in 1904, George Ade (1866-1944), a syndicated newspaper columnist, author, humorist, and playwright.”
Wikipedia article George Ade House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 1976 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Ade, George, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of Brook off IN 16, Brook, 47922
When was it listed? September 1976
Category. building
Township. Iroquois township
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 76000014 - 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.

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brook, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Brook	$2,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Brook	-	A private weather station measured a wind gust to 58 mph west of Brook.
February 2023	Funnel Cloud	Brook	-	Video was shared of a funnel cloud extending half way to the ground west of Brook.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brook	-	Tree limbs were blown down.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brook	-	A large tree was broken halfway up and was leaning on a garage. Power lines were also blown down.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brook	-	A tree was blown down onto Road S 50 E.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Brook	-	Part of a roof of a large commercial building was blown off.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Brook	-	The tornado began about 1 1/2 miles west of Brook just south of highway 16, and it continued moving east northeast for 4 1/2 miles before ending near the Iroquois River, north of Foresman. The tornado was about 20 yards wide. It briefly produced F1 damage with estimated winds of 70 to 90 mph on the west side of Brook where large trees were damaged and there was roof damage to homes. The tornado only produced minor damage to roofs as it went through the center of the business district. Tree limbs were also knocked down on the northeast side of town. East of Brook, on County Road 300 East, a machine shed was destroyed and part of the roof was taken off another shed. A large tree was taken down near State Road 55.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Brook	-	Numerous trees blown down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Brook	-	Trees and power lines blown down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Brook	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Brook	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Brook	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	McCairn-Turner House	6.9 miles	1994
	Goodland-Grant Township Public Library	7.0 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000014 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton County	All 6 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.