A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“Samara is a Usonian-style historic house museum in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Samara was completed in 1956 for Purdue University professor John E.”
Wikipedia article Samara (house), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Tippecanoe County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.92000679- 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
9 within 5 miles
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of John E. and Catherine E. Christian House: 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant, 1 past producer.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
West Lafayette, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 9 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.
Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including near Lafayette, due to heavy rain and snow melt. 30 to 40 homes were damaged by flood waters.
Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including near Lafayette, due to heavy rain and snow melt. Numerous homes were affected by flood waters.
Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including near Lafayette, due to heavy rain. Flooding continued until April 5th at 17:12.
An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location with the passage of the gust front. Also, shingles were blown off of the State Farm building.
The rain and flash flooding created high water on numerous streets around Greater Lafayette Tuesday morning. It also forced the Lafayette Parks Department to close Munger Park and the city's aquatic facilities for the day. Power companies reported power outages scattered across the area that continued into the afternoon.
This flooding is a continuation from flooding that began on May 31st at 1636 EST. The flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including near Lafayette, due to heavy rain. Flood damage from May included five-thousand dollars in both crop and property damage. An addition two-thousand dollars in both crop and property damage occurred in June for a total of seven-thousand dollars in both crop and property damage.
Very minor flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including in and near Lafayette, due to heavy rain. The river crest was less than one foot above flood stage. This event is a continuation from February.
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.
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.
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