Solomon Wilson Building

Built in 1883 (Second Empire style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Solomon Wilson Building, also known as the Scheerer Building, is a historic commercial building located at Wabash, Indiana. It was built in 1883, and is a two bay by seven bay, Second Empire style brick building on a stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Solomon Wilson Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Wabash County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1883, Second Empire style.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Wilson, Solomon, Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 102 S. Wabash St., Wabash, 46992
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. building
Township. Noble township
When was it built? 1883
Architectural style. Second Empire style
National Register reference number. 84001743 - 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.

The ground it stands on

42,492 words

The chapter on Noble Township in History of Wabash County Indiana, published 1914 names Wabash. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The first meeting of the board of county commissioners was held at tlie house of David Burr, Town of Wabash, on the forenoon of j\Ionday, June 15, 1835. The board was organized, several county officers were sworn in and some other preliminary liusiness was disposed of before it adjourned for an afternoon session to the house of Commissioner Blaekman. At the afternoon meeting the county was divided into both commissioners' districts and townships.

Passage source: History of Wabash County Indiana, published 1914.

AVith the exception of the City of Wabash, there is virtually no center of population in the township. Rich Valley postoffice, about four miles to the west of the county seat, was at one time quite a promising village, but is now scarcely on the map, tlie rural route system having even abolished its distinctive pastoffice.

Passage source: History of Wabash County Indiana, published 1914.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Noble Township - 42,492 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Solomon Wilson Building: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Higley Curve Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mill Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wabash Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Wabash County

Storms near this property

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wabash, the town this property stands in, in 55 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 26 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
July 1998	Flash Flood	Wabash	$6,000,000	6 TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN FELL ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF WABASH COUNTY SENDING THE NORMALLY DOCILE CHARLEY CREEK INTO A RAGING ONE-HALF MILE WIDE TORRENT THROUGH TOWN. MANY PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT STRANDED BY THE FLOOD WATERS WERE EVACUATED TO HIGHER GROUND. TWO BRIDGES AND 15 COUNTY ROADS WERE COMPLETELY WASHED OUT. MANY HOMES ALONG THE EEL AND SALAMONIE RIVERS WERE EVACUATED AS WELL AS THOSE RIVERS APPROACHED RECORD FLOOD LEVELS. DAMAGE ESTIMATES WERE IN THE MILLIONS DUE TO COUNTLESS FLOODED HOMES... BASEMENTS AND VEHICLES.
August 2001	Lightning	Wabash	$500,000	A lightning strike caused a fire at the administration building of North Central Co-op in Wabash. The building is located at the southwest corner of Cass and Fulton Streets. Damage was estimated to be as high as a half million dollars.
May 2008	Lightning	Wabash	$30,000	Lightning struck a tree near the residence, causing a limb to fall onto power lines. The line caused a fire in the exterior wall, but the fire was dealt with quickly and extinguished. Damage estimates include $10,000 for the structure and $20,000 for contents for a total of $30,000.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	$25,000	A tree was blown down in the 200 block of Elm Street, damaging several automobiles. A downed tree blocked the road and downed a power line at 62 W. Harrison Street. Another downed tree blocked the intersection of Hawthorne and Lafayette Streets.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	$20,000	A large tree is down on a car.
December 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	$20,000	SEVERAL TREES...POWER POLES AND LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN TOWN.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	$15,000	Several utility poles, trees and tree limbs were blown down in and around Wabash. A tree was blown down onto a car north of Wabash, with another tree being blown down onto a power line 10 miles southeast of Wabash.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	$10,000	Large tree down onto powerlines. Nearly landed on a house.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	$10,000	Scattered reports of trees, tree limbs and power lines were received around the county. Much of the damage was confined to Wabash, as well as Lagro.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	$5,000	Emergency management officals reported a few trees and power lines down in Wabash.
May 2001	Tornado (F0)	Wabash	$2,500	F0 tornado damaged ne corner of garage and nearby shed.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	$2,000	Power poles were blown down.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	$100	Twelve inch diameter trees snapped off 12 feet above ground. Shed damaged and moved.
February 2026	Hail	Wabash	-	Emergency management officials report hail completely covering the ground with stones ranging from one half to one and a half inch in diameter.
August 2025	Hail	Wabash	-	Public report.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Tree on house and multiple trees and limbs down across Wabash.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Emergency management officials reported a 12 inch diameter tree was blown down across Market Street.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	A National Weather Service survey of damage northwest of Wabash indicated the damage patterns were consistent with a downburst. The path noted here is the center point of the swath with a maximum width of around 3 miles at the start, to roughly 2/3rds of a mile wide at the end. In addition to extensive tree damage, a grain silo and two pole barns were completely destroyed, with the debris being blown to the southeast. Winds were estimated between 90 and 100 mph.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	A mesonet site recorded at 69 mph wind gust.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Damage was observed to cars and homes in the city. A home suffered partial roof damage with windows being blown out of a second story floor.
March 2012	Hail	Wabash	-	The public reported hail from one half inch to the size of pennies for two to three minutes.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	A 60 mph wind gust was recorded by a mesonet site at the Wabash county central dispatch.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Wabash	-	Emergency management officials reported several county and city roads closed due to flowing high water.
October 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Wabash	-	A survey of damage indicated that a circulation, embedded within a larger area of straight-line winds, touched down at the intersection of US 24 and State Highway 15, on the north side of Wabash. Winds from the tornado blew in a door and pushed out a few sky lights as well as shifted a HVAC unit on top of the building. The tornado continued northeast, removing much of the roof of a vocational center building, and then some metal roofing from an older grain storage barn. A few utility poles were bent or snapped towards the end of the tornado track. The tornado dissipated near the intersection of County Roads 300 North and 100 East. Maximum wind speeds are estimated at between 80 and 85 mph, with a maximum width of 100 yards.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Emergency management officials reported several trees and power lines down in and around Wabash.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Emergency management officials reported winds of at least 60 mph.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Emergency management officials reported trees and power lines down.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Tree blown down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Emergency management reported trees down near the city of Wabash.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Wabash	-	Law enforcement reported water over a foot deep on US 24 near Wabash with cars abandoned due to flash flooding.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Law enforcement reported trees down southwest of Wabash.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in Wabash.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Numerous trees and power lines were reported down across much of the city of Wabash with several roads being blocked by debris. Trees were also reported down in the surrounding areas of the county, along State Routes 15 and 13.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Numerous trees blown down.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	Sheriff reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2006	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Wabash	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Wabash	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabash 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
James M. Amoss Building	under 500 feet	1984
Downtown Wabash Historic District	under 500 feet	1986
First Christian Church	0.1 miles	1983
East Wabash Historic District	0.3 miles	2011
Honeywell Memorial Community Center	0.3 miles	1983
West Wabash Historic District	0.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001743 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wabash County	All 33 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.