Iddings-Gilbert-Leader-Anderson Block

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Iddings-Gilbert-Leader-Anderson Block is a row of five connected historic commercial buildings located at Kendallville, Indiana. The block was built between 1891 and 1895, and is a two-story, red brick building with pressed metal facades in the Queen Anne style.”
Wikipedia article Iddings-Gilbert-Leader-Anderson Block, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Noble County · listed in 1987 · 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 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Iddings--Gilbert--Leader--Anderson Block - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 105--113 N. Main St., Kendallville, 46755
When was it listed? July 1987
Category. building
Township. Wayne township
National Register reference number. 87000544 - 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Iddings-Gilbert-Leader-Anderson Block: 2 producers. 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
	Gunsaullus Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Varner Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Noble County

Storms near this property

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kendallville, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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
October 2001	Tornado (F1)	Kendallville	$1,150,000	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Kendallville	$200,000	Damage to cars, windows, and siding in Kendallville due to 3 inch hail stones.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	$50,000	Numerous trees, tree limbs, power lines and poles were down in and around Kendallville. At least 2 vehicles suffered damage from falling trees. A 30 to 40 foot tall maple tree snapped and fell between two houses, luckily not causing any damage to either one.
May 2024	Hail	Kendallville	$30,000	Several reports of 3 inch hail on Facebook.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	$30,000	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN TOWN AND ACROSS MOST OF NOBLE COUNTY.
May 2024	Hail	Kendallville	$30,000	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Kendallville	$30,000	no account filed
June 2001	Lightning	Kendallville	$13,500	Lightning strikes caused fires at 2 homes.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	$2,000	Several large trees and tree limbs down across the city. One tree fell onto a set of powerlines.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	A trained spotter reported a tree branch was blown down.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	The public reported a large tree was blown down and power lines down in Kendallville.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	Emergency management officials reported a large tree limb came down onto power lines at the Noble County Fairgrounds.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	Emergency management officials reported the south half of a home was lifted and placed on the north side of the home. There was no indication of other damage to the home.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	Large tree limb down.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	Local media reported a screened in porch and cedar playhouse/swing set was destroyed by strong winds.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	Emergency management officials reported tree limbs down near US 6 and Main Street in Kendallville.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	Trees and power lines were blown down in the area. An amateur radio tower was also knocked down.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	Numerous tree limbs down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	Trees were reported down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	Trees were reported down north of Kendallville, as well as other areas in the northeastern part of the county.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	Trees snapped and uprooted.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	Tree limbs down.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Kendallville	-	Large limbs down.
May 2014	Hail	Kendallville	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Kendallville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Kendallville	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Kendallville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Kendallville	-	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
Kendallville Downtown Historic District	under 500 feet	2003
Gene Stratton Porter Cabin	5.0 miles	1974
Brimfield School No. 2	6.9 miles	2019
Kneipp Springs Historic District	6.9 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000544 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.