Located in

Chesterton, Indiana Chesterton is a town in Westchester, Jackson and Liberty townships in Porter County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 14,241 at the 2020 Census. The three towns of Chesterton, Burns Harbor, and Porter are known as the Duneland a ...

, the Chesterton Residential Historic District is located a block south of the business district, along Second Street from Indiana Ave. to Lincoln Ave. and on Indiana Ave. from Second to Third Streets. The area began with the

Martin Young House Martin Young shows up in the abstracts of several significant real estate transactions that provided for the growth of the town of Chesterton. He does not appear to have had a major role in the development on the town, except it apparently prov ...

construction about 1870. The

Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Indiana Landmarks is America's largest private statewide historic preservation organization. Founded in 1960 as Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana by a volunteer group of civic and business leaders led by Indianapolis pharmaceutical execu ...

describes as one of the best Italianate structures remaining in northwest Indiana.Porter County Interim Report, Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory; Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana; 1996; pg 20-21 Most of the structures date from the early twentieth century. St. Patrick's Catholic Church, built in 1876, and burned ca. 2000. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. The historic district was established in December 2009.Federal Register: March 17, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 51)] otices age 12790-12792From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access

Key Buildings

* 203 West Indiana Ave. – a free classic architectural style, c. 1905s. * 209 West Indiana Ave. - a gable front style home. * 221 Second St. – a colonial revival style c. 1905. * 301 Second St. – an Italianate style T-plan home, ca. 1880/ 1910. * 302 West Second St. - a Queen Anne home c. 1895. * 307 South Second St. - Queen Anne style c. 1868 * 324 Second St. –

is a brick Italianate house building the 1870s. * 144 Lincoln Ave. – a Queen Anne style c. 1900. * SW corner of Lincoln and Second – Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, a Gothic Revival c. 1880. Currently used as a meeting hall by the United Methodist church across the street to the north.

Gallery

File:CRHD 144 Lincoln P7120019 Queen Anne, c. 1900) N.jpg, 144 Lincoln St File:CRHD 203 Indiana P7120003 Free Classic (1905) N.jpg, 203 Indiana St. File:CRHD 209 Indiana P7120002 gable-front (1905) N.jpg, 209 Indiana St. File:CRHD 215 Second n 221 Second P7120025 Colonial Revival (c 1930) N and (c 1905) N.jpg, 215 Second n 221 Second Sts File:CRHD 301 Morgan P7120007.jpg, 301 Morgan File:CRHD 302 Second Street P7120009 Queen Anne, (c 1885) O.jpg, 302 Second Street File:CRHD 307 South Second Street P7120021.jpg, 307 Second Street File:CRHD 324 Second P7120012 Martin Young Hse ( c. 1880) O.jpg, 324 Second St., Martin Young Hse File:CRHD 401 Second P4100018 Bethlehem Evan Lutheran Church (Gothic Revival (c. 1880) C.jpg, Bethlehem Evan Lutheran Church

National Register of Historic Sites

Chesterton Commercial Historic District The Chesterton Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Chesterton, Indiana. Originally called Coffee Creek and located a little to the south of the current downtown, the name was changed some time after the post office was estab ...

* Chesterton Residential Historic District *

George Brown Mansion The George Brown Mansion is an example of the Queen Anne's Style of architecture. It was a dominant style during the 1880s and 1890s, the time when Chesterton was a growing city in northern Indiana. George Brown arrived in the United States in ...

Norris and Harriet Coambs Lustron House The Norris and Harriet Coambs Lustron House, also known as the Coambs-Morrow House, is a historic Lustron house located in Chesterton, Indiana. It was built in 1950, this was one of the last manufactured Lustron homes (#2329) of the 2500 sold a ...

New York Central Railroad Passenger Depot, Chesterton, Indiana Chesterton is a disused train station in Chesterton, Indiana. The current depot replaced a wooden structure built in 1852 for the Northern Indiana and Chicago Railroad, a predecessor road of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, that burn ...

References

Bibliography

*"A Biographical History of Porter County", unpublished manuscript, American Revolution Bicentennial Committee of Porter County, Indiana. Collection of Westchester Public Library, Chesterton, IN, 1976. Includes essays by Terry Dietz and Oral Smith. *Drury, John. Porter County. Chicago: Inland Photo Co., 1956. *Weston A. Goodspeed and Charles Blanchard, editors. Counties of Porter and Lake. Indiana. Chicago: F. A. Batty Co., 1882. *Morgan, George Jr. A Photo Genealogy of the Descendants of G. C. Morgan. Ft. Collins, CO: no publisher, 1993. *Sanborn Map Company. Insurance Maps of Chesterton. Indiana. 1893, 1899,1905, 1912, 1922,1935. *Smith, Oral. "My Home Town: A History of Chesterton, Indiana," unpublished manuscript/ notes, collection of Westchester Public Library, Chesterton, IN, 1979. {{National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Georgian Revival architecture in Indiana Victorian architecture in Indiana Historic districts in Porter County, Indiana Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Porter County, Indiana