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Photograph of Palace Lodge
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Palace Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Palace Lodge is a historic commercial building in the small town of Winslow, Indiana, United States. Since its construction in the late nineteenth century, the building has been the location of several businesses, the meeting place for two different secret societies, and the center of the town's commercial district.”

Wikipedia article Palace Lodge (Winslow, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Pike 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Center and Main Sts., Winslow, 47598
  • When was it listed? February 1984
  • Category. building
  • Township. Patoka township
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 84001217 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Palace Lodge in 2006, burning about 365 acres 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/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined365 acresIndiana Division of ForestryWINSLOW SPOILS

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this property

37 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winslow, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWinslow$70,000Trees were blown down onto a few homes. Power poles and lines were down. A porch was damaged by wind.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWinslow$50,000Large trees were uprooted along Highway 57. Some trees blocked roads countywide.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindWinslow$40,000no account filed
May 2011Tornado (EF1)Winslow$20,000Several dozen trees were uprooted or snapped. Some trees had trunks of two feet in diameter. Peak winds were estimated near 95 mph. The average path width was 35 yards.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindWinslow$15,000One barn was blown down and another barn was damaged several miles west of Winslow. Trees and power lines were down.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindWinslow$10,000Tree limbs and power lines were down across the county.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWinslow$10,000Trees and power lines were down in Winslow and Otwell.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWinslow$4,000Several trees were damaged in town.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWinslow$4,000Several trees and limbs were blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWinslow$4,000Wind gusts to 80 MPH downed trees.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindWinslow$3,000A couple of power lines were down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWinslow$3,000Trees were blown down. One tree near Winslow took down some power lines.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWinslow$3,000Trees were down at several locations around the county.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWinslow$2,000A tree was blown down onto IN-364 near Winslow.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindWinslow$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down multiple large tree limbs of 4-5 inch diameter.
March 2023Flash FloodWinslow-Cup Creek and its tributaries were all overflowing into surrounding fields. Some county roads had water running across them. Fields were flooding. Ponding was reported on State Route 64 in places where highway ditches were full and spilling onto the road.
June 2019Flash FloodWinslow-A main water line was washed out four miles northeast of Winslow, near Cato. Creeks were out of their banks, including Cup Creek within a mile of where it drains into the Patoka River.
June 2018Flash FloodWinslow-Flash flooding was reported along Highway 61 near the intersection of Highway 56. Water was over roadways in different locations.
May 2016HailWinslow-Wind gusts were estimated to at least 55 mph.
June 2009Heavy RainWinslow-Standing water was reported on city streets.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindWinslow-Trees were blown down in the Vespen and Winslow areas.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindWinslow-A spotter on Route 61 estimated 55 to 60 MPH gusts.
July 2001FloodWinslow-Slow-moving thunderstorms caused some county roads to flood. A spotter reported 1.5 to 2 inches per hour.
April 1999HailWinslow-Dime to nickel size hail was reported by spotters.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindWinslow-A wind gust to 60 MPH was measured.
June 2023HailWinslow-no account filed
May 2018HailWinslow-no account filed
May 2011HailWinslow-no account filed
June 2007HailWinslow-no account filed
April 2006HailWinslow-no account filed
June 2006HailWinslow-no account filed
June 2004HailWinslow-no account filed
June 2001HailWinslow-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindWinslow-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWinslow-no account filed
June 1996HailWinslow-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWinslow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84001217 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pike CountyAll 2 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.
  • 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.