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Photograph of Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn located in LaPorte County on the southern edge of LaPorte, Indiana, is a multi-sided barn. Built in 1882 by Marion Ridgeway and called the Door Prairie Barn.”

Wikipedia article Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for LaPorte County · listed in 1993 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Ridgeway, Marion, Polygonal Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. IN 35 N of jct. with Crescent Dr., LaPorte, 46350
  • When was it listed? May 1993
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Round and Polygonal Barns of Indiana MPS
  • Township. Scipio township
  • National Register reference number. 93000464 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Laporte City Eng.StoneProducer

Storms near this property

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names LaPorte, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1996: 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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
April 1996HailLaporte-no account filed
August 1996LightningLaporte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaPorte 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Indiana and Michigan Avenues Historic District1.1 miles2014
Francis H. Morrison House1.3 miles1984
Cedar Lodge1.4 miles2025
Scott-Rumley House1.6 miles2016
Downtown LaPorte Historic District1.7 miles1983
William Orr House4.1 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000464 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
LaPorte CountyAll 34 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.