Photograph of Meyer's Castle — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Joseph Ernest Meyer House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Meyer's Castle or the Joseph Ernest Meyer House is a former private residence in the town of Dyer, Indiana, United States. The castle was constructed from 1927 to 1931 in the Jacobethan style by architect Cosbey Bernard Sr.”
Wikipedia article Meyer's Castle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1984 · 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. Meyer, Joseph Ernest, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1370 Joliet St., Dyer, 46311
When was it listed? March 1984
Category. building
Township. St. John township
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 84001068 - 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.

Fires near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Joseph Ernest Meyer House in 2009, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
22 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	HOOSIER

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Joseph Ernest Meyer House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
	Al Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Yard M Clay Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dyer, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 flood, 2 flash flood. 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
August 2007	Flood	Dyer	$4,000,000	St. Margaret Mercy Hospital in Dyer Indiana suffered significant flooding around noon on Friday, August 24th, about 20 hours after the heavy rains fell, when Hart Ditch overflowed it's banks. Sixty seven patients were evacuated from the healthcare center when it was apparent that floodwaters entering the building would submerge the Hospitals emergency generators and cutoff the buildings power supply. The first floor suffered significant water damage. More than 150 homes near the creek also sustained some type of flood damage. US 30 at Plum Creek was closed due to flooding. Numerous cars were also damaged by flood waters.
August 2014	Flash Flood	Dyer	$50,000	Multiple cars stalled on flooded roadways in Dyer. A USGS River Gage measured 3.65 inches of rain.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	$15,000	Wind gusts estimated between 60 and 70 mph. Tree limbs and power lines were blown down. A flat roof was blown off a building at 215th and Madison. Another roof was blown off a restaurant.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	$10,000	Winds tore the roof off a building at Dyer.
March 2026	Flash Flood	Dyer	-	Several roads were flooded in Munster. Hart Ditch at Munster reached minor flood stage. Minor street flooding was reported in Highland.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	-	Lake County EMA reported power poles snapped in Dyer.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	-	Tree limbs were blown down.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	-	A wind gust to 60 mph was measured and a fence was damaged.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	-	Tree damage was reported in and around Dyer.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	-	Tree limbs one inch in diameter were blown down and shingles were blown off.
June 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Dyer	-	A tornado with peak winds to 75 mph touched down near 81st Avenue and Sheffield Avenue in southwest Dyer and continued northeast into Schererville where it lifted near Kennedy Avenue, just south of Highway 30. Only tree damage was found along the path of this tornado.
June 2020	Flood	Dyer	-	Flooding was reported on Monticello Drive.
June 2020	Hail	Dyer	-	Golf ball size hail was reported in Dyer, south of Route 30.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	-	Roof damage was reported to a residential structure near Calumet Avenue and 213th Street.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Dyer	-	Rainfall of 1.21 inches was measured in 45 minutes at a school.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	-	Wind gusts were estimated to 65 mph.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	-	A large tree limb was snapped.
May 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Dyer	-	A tornado touched down on the southeast side of Dyer and caused damage to trim, shingles, siding and fascia on several homes. A chimney on one home was also damaged. Multiple trees were snapped and many tree limbs were blown down. A backyard shed was flipped and fencing was damaged. Homes located between Willow and Scotty Lanes appeared to sustain the worst damage.
July 2018	Flood	Dyer	-	Six to eight inches of standing water was reported at the intersection of Hart and Exchange. Storm total rainfall of 2.23 inches was reported 1.2 miles north of Griffith.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	-	Large tree limbs and a few trees were blown down.
June 2012	Hail	Dyer	-	There were multiple reports of hail of two inches or greater near Dyer, including at least one report of tennis ball size hail.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	-	Seven inch diameter tree limbs blown down at 77th and Calumet Avenue.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyer	-	Large tree limbs blown down at Arrowhead and Calumet Roads.
March 2019	Hail	Dyer	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Dyer	-	no account filed
January 2013	Hail	Dyer	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Dyer	-	no account filed
September 2011	Hail	Dyer	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Keilman, Francis P. House	2.9 miles	2013
Griffith E.J. and E. Interlocking Tower	4.1 miles	2003
Griffith Grand Trunk Depot	4.1 miles	2003
Griffith State Bank	4.2 miles	2019
Ibach House	4.7 miles	2010
Stallbohm Barn-Kaske House	4.7 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001068 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 88 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.