Lakeville High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Lakeville High School is a historic high school building located at Lakeville, Indiana. It was built in 1931, and is a two-story, "T"-plan, Collegiate Gothic style brick building.”
Wikipedia article Lakeville High School (Lakeville, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for St. Joseph County · listed in 1991 · 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. 601 N. Michigan St., Lakeville, 46536
When was it listed? August 1991
Category. building
Township. Union township
National Register reference number. 91001166 - 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

7,729 words

The chapter on Union Township in History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880 names Lakeville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Just south of Lakeville are several small lakes, the largest of which are called Pleasant and Eiddle's lakes. The ground around them is quite miry and muck}'. One of them is said to be quite deeji. Along the east part of the township a ridge runs across it. It is mostry a black, sandy soil. The Turkey creek road follows this ridge, through the township and along it are some very fine farms. On sections 6 and 8 have been found a great many Indian relics. Among other curiosities discovered by the removal of the surface of the earth are round holes dug in the ground and nicely walled up with stones in the shape of a common kettle. Some of them have been found to be four or five feet in depth. For what purpose they had been made the people of the neighborhood are unable to surmise. A great many arrowheads, tomahawks and other things of like nature have been found here and in other parts of the township, thus bringing to our minds that but a short time ago another race^of people inhabited this region, perhaps no less industrious in their way than the people who have just come and taken possession of the country.

Passage source: History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880.

The township contains but one village, - Lakeville. It is a pleasant little village, located about the center of the township, and contains several hundred inhabitants. The people are kind, intelligent and social. Although they have no railroad, a large business is carried on by the merchants. The village contains two good country stores, a drug and hardware store, a hotel, a couple of shoe-shop and three or four blacksmith shops, a saw-mill and grist-mill, - all doing well. It has also two'churches, with a good school, while three M. D's attend to the afflicted in the town and vicinity.

Passage source: History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880.

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 Union Township - 7,729 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeville, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 8 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2023	Hail	Lakeville	$20,000	Photo on Twitter shows approximately golf ball sized hail at Lakeville High School. Several vehicles were damaged.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeville	$5,000	Trees and power lines were downed.
March 2023	Hail	Lakeville	-	Photo shows estimated golf ball sized hail.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeville	-	Two one to two diameter healthy trees were blown down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeville	-	A report from the public was relayed by local media of a 72 mph wind gust with passage of the outflow boundary.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeville	-	Law enforcement officials reported numerous trees down in Lakeville.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeville	-	Trained spotter reported trees down and U.S. 31 and New Road. One tree was blocking a roadway.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeville	-	A South Bend television station reported trees were down onto a house and car at 402 Monroe Street in Lakeville.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeville	-	A trained spotter reported a 65 mph wind gust just north of Lakeville.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeville	-	A tree was blown down.
August 1997	Tornado (F0)	Lakeville	-	A short, narrow tornado touched down briefly between Lakeville and LaPaz. A semi was blown over on highway 31.
June 1994	Hail	Lakeville	-	Winds up to 60 to 70 mph blew down several trees.
June 2015	Hail	Lakeville	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Lakeville	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Lakeville	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Lakeville	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Lakeville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Joseph 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Evergreen Hill	6.9 miles	2001
	North Liberty Commercial Historic District	7.9 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001166 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Joseph County	All 101 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.
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.