Jacob Straus House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Jacob Straus House, also known as the Louis Levy House, is a historic home located at Ligonier, Indiana. It was built in 1898-1899, and is a two-story, frame dwelling with Neoclassical and Colonial Revival style design elements.”
Wikipedia article Jacob Straus House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Noble County · listed in 1979 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Straus, Jacob, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 210 S. Main St., Ligonier, 46767
When was it listed? June 1979
Category. building
Township. Perry township
National Register reference number. 79000011 - 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 Jacob Straus House: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ligonier Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Noble County

Storms near this property

29 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ligonier, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 21 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning. 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
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	$20,000	A roof was blown completely off of a diary barn in the NW corner of the county. Power lines were also down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	$15,000	Utility poles and large trees down. Minor damage to several homes, uprooted trees destroyed somesidewalks.
August 2006	Lightning	Ligonier	$2,500	Lightning struck a Dodge Durango trevelling along US 6 near county road 600 west. The male driver and his children were not injured. However, the electrical system was destroyed, leaving them briefly stranded. Damage is estimated at $2,500.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	$1,000	An 18 inch diameter tree was snapped at Kenny Park. Tree appeared healthy.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	$1,000	Tree down in Ligonier.
July 2023	Hail	Ligonier	$1,000	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	EM reports tree blocking roadway.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	An off duty NWS employee reported large tree limbs and a utility line was blown down.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	A wet microburst caused damage to center pivot irrigation systems and several barns roughly 4 miles NNW of Ligonier in Noble County. An 80 mph gust was measured by a private individual's home equipment and supported by NWS survey of the damage.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	Trees were reported blown down in the area.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	Report of a tree down.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	Emergency management officials reported trees and tree limbs down.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	Local officials reported a large tree was blown down onto a local residence. No injuries were reported and no monetary details were available.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	Law enforcement officials reported two trees were blown down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	Several tree limbs and power lines downed.
December 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	Numerous reports of trees and power lines down were received by county dispatch across Noble county.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	Trees were reported down around Ligonier.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	Law enforcement reported several trees down in Ligonier.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	Trees were reported down in Ligonier, as well as other areas in the northwestern part of the county.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	Law enforcement reported tree limbs knocked down power lines in Ligonier. Power lines were also reported down 4 miles south of Wolcottville.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	Numerous trees down.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	2 TREES DOWN.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ligonier	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Ligonier	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Ligonier	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Ligonier	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Ligonier	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Ligonier	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Ligonier	-	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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Ligonier Historic District	under 500 feet	1987
Ahavas Shalom Reform Temple	0.2 miles	1983
Stone's Trace	2.6 miles	1984
Cromwell Historic District	4.4 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000011 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.