Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
From the record
“Stallbohm Barn-Kaske House, also known as Bieker Woods and Heritage Park, is a historic home and English barn located at Munster, Indiana. The house was built in 1909, and is a two-story, American Foursquare frame dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Stallbohm Barn-Kaske House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 88 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.98000303- 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.
Fires near this property
3 since 2009
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Stallbohm Barn-Kaske House
between 2009 and 2020, burning about 165 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Stallbohm Barn-Kaske House: 3 producers, 2 plants, 2 past producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Munster, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 flood.
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.
Record flooding occurred along the Little Calumet River and its tributaries in northwest Indiana. A record crest of 17.32 feet was set at Munster on the 14th. Record flooding also occurred along Hart Ditch. Nearly 190 patients were evacuated from the Munster Med-Inn. Major flooding was reported in Munster with over a thousand homes evacuated as a levee along the Little Calumet River failed. Interstate 80/94 was closed in northwest Indiana when levees were topped by flood waters.
Numerous roadways and intersections were closed and impassible due to standing flood waters in Munster including Fran-Lin Parkway, Broadmoor Avenue, Harrison Avenue and Garfield Avenue. The intersection of 87th Avenue and Sheffield Avenue near St. John was also impassible. Storm total rainfall amounts included 2.57 inches near St. John; 1.64 inches one mile west northwest of Dyer and 1.36 inches one and one half miles north northwest of Munster.
A light pole was blown down across Ridge Road near Columbia Avenue. Trees to eight inches in diameter were blown down near Calumet Avenue and Ridge Road. A 24-inch diameter tree was split in half.
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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.
Block
