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Lake County, Indiana

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

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89historic places

—earliest paper

1836formed

498,700pop. 2020

52cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 89 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Gary, Hammond, Crown Point.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Indiana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Lake titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

43 of 89 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

89 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Allman, Walter, House	Crown Point	Building	2010
American Sheet and Tin Mill Apartment Building	Gary	Building	2009
Andrew Means Park Manor Historic District	Gary	District	2024
Bailey, Louis J., Branch Library-Gary International Institute	Gary	Building	2004
Brannon, James, House	Lowell	Building	2011
Buckley Homestead	Lowell	Building	1984
Carolyn Mosby Senior High Rise	Gary	Building	2022
Clark, Wellington A., House	Crown Point	Building	2001
Combs Addition Historic District	Gary	District	2014
Crawford-Winslow House	Crown Point	Building	2013
Crown Point Courthouse Square Historic District	Crown Point	District	2004
Crown Point Courthouse Square Historic District (Boundary Adjustment)	Crown Point	District	2005
Crown Point Courthouse Square Historic District (Boundary Increase II)	Crown Point	Building	2007
Dell Plain, Morse, House and Garden	Hammond	Building	1998
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, School	Gary	Building	1995
Eskilson Historic District	Gary	District	2014
First Unitarian Church of Hobart	Hobart	Building	1999
Forest-Ivanhoe Residential Historic District	Hammond	District	2010
Forest-Moraine Residential Historic District	Hammond	District	2010
Forest-Southview Residential Historic District	Hammond	District	2010
Gary Bathing Beach Aquatorium	Gary	Building	1994
Gary City Center Historic District	Gary	District	1994
Gary Land Company Building	Gary	Building	1979
Gary Public Schools Memorial Auditorium	Gary	Building	1994
Gary Union Station	Gary	Building	2019
Glendale Park Historic District	Hammond	District	2013
Griffith E.J. and E. Interlocking Tower	Griffith	Building	2003
Griffith Grand Trunk Depot	Griffith	Building	2003
Griffith State Bank	Griffith	Building	2019
Halsted, Melvin A., House	Lowell	Building	1978
Hansen Branch-Hammond Public Library	Hammond	Building	2019
Hobart Carnegie Library	Hobart	Building	1982
Hobart Commercial District	Hobart	District	2014
Hobart First Methodist Episcopal Church	Hobart	Building	2017
Hohman Avenue Commercial Historic District	Hammond	District	2011
Hoosier Theater Building	Whiting	Building	1987
Horace Mann Historic District	Gary	District	2013
Ibach House	Munster	Building	2010
Indi-Illi Park Historic District	Hammond	District	2012
Indiana Harbor Public Library	East Chicago	Building	2005
Jackson-Monroe Terraces Historic District	Gary	District	2009
Jefferson Street Historic District	Gary	District	2013
Keilman, Francis P. House	St. John	Building	2013
Kingsbury-Doak Farmhouse	Hebron	Building	2005
Knights of Columbus Building	Gary	Building	1984
Lake County Courthouse	Crown Point	Building	1973
Lake County Sheriff's House and Jail	Crown Point	Building	1989
Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium Nurses Home and Superintendent's House	Crown Point	Building	2005
Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Nurse's Home and Superintendent's House (Boundary Increase)	Crown Point	Building	2013
Lassen Hotel	Cedar Lake	Building	1981
Lincoln Street Historic District	Gary	District	2013
Lowell Commercial Historic District	Lowell	District	2003
MATERIAL SERVICE (shipwreck)	Whiting	Site	2014
Maack, Albert, House	Crown Point	Building	2011
Marktown Historic District	East Chicago	District	1975
Meyer, Joseph Ernest, House	Dyer	Building	1984
Miller Town Hall	Gary	Building	1978
Monon Park Dancing Pavillion	Cedar Lake	Building	2001
Monroe Terrace Historic District	Gary	District	2009
Morgan-Skinner-Boyd Homestead	Merrillville	Building	2010
Morningside Historic District	Gary	District	2009
Nichols, Charles E., House	Lowell	Building	2010
North Gleason Park Community Building	Gary	Building	2021
Northern States Life Insurance Company	Hammond	Building	2010
Pennsylvania Railroad Station	Hobart	Building	1984
Polk Street Concrete Cottage Historic District	Gary	Building	2011
Polk Street Terraces Historic District	Gary	District	2009
Pullman-Standard Historic District	Hammond	District	2012
Roosevelt, Theodore, High School	Gary	Building	2012
Roselawn-Forest Heights Historic District	Hammond	District	2012
Ross, John, Farm	Leroy	Building	1996
Rumsey, J. Claude, House	Lowell	Building	2008
SS CLIPPER NHL	Hammond	Structure	1983
Sablotny, Barney, House	Gary	Building	2012
Schrage, Henry and Caroline, House	Whiting	Building	2021
Southmoor Apartment Hotel	Hammond	Building	2011
St. Augustine's Episcopal Church	Gary	Building	2013
St. John's Lutheran Church and School	Gary	Building	2019
St. Mark A.M.E. Zion Church	East Chicago	Building	2025
St. Mary's Byzantine Catholic Parish Campus	Whiting	Building	2026
Stallbohm Barn-Kaske House	Munster	Building	1998
State Bank of Hammond Building	Hammond	Building	1984
State Street Commercial Historic District	Hammond	District	1999
Van Buren Terrace Historic District	Gary	District	2007
West Fifth Avenue Apartments Historic District	Gary	District	1984
Whitaker, William, Landscape and House	Crown Point	Site	1999
Whiting Memorial Community House	Whiting	Building	1980
Wolf, George John, House	Hammond	Building	2007
Wood, John, Old Mill	Merrillville	Building	1975

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lake was formed in 1836 (1836-02-01) from Porter, Newton.

LAKE created from PORTER and NEWTON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lake County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,468	9,145	15,091	37,892	159,957	293,195	368,152	513,269	522,965	484,564	498,700

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
indu	Park unit	29.8 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

52 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 52 of 52 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Brunswick Cemetery	41.36058	-87.50799
Calumet Park Cemetery	41.49064	-87.3686
Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery	41.47469	-87.43387
Chester Cemetery	41.48013	-87.25875
Concordia Cemetery	41.59338	-87.50662
Creston Cemetery	41.33852	-87.43033
Crown Hill Cemetery	41.55201	-87.26071
Deep River Cemetery	41.47903	-87.22035
Deer Creek Cemetery	41.42198	-87.25852
Elmwood Cemetery	41.59045	-87.49481
Evergreen Memorial Park	41.54549	-87.30521
Fern Oaks Cemetery	41.53118	-87.40698
Fuller Cemetery	41.30957	-87.51825
German Methodist Episcopal Cemetery	41.34883	-87.46872
Hack Family Cemetery	41.44262	-87.46285
Hessville Cemetery	41.58814	-87.45752
Hobart Cemetery	41.53531	-87.25241
Holy Ghost Cemetery	41.58986	-87.48612
Holy Name Cemetery	41.37887	-87.46735
Hope Cemetery	41.55106	-87.43676
Lake Prairie Cemetery	41.2893	-87.46889
Lowell Memorial Cemetery	41.2914	-87.40751
Maplewood Memorial Cemetery	41.4086	-87.35758
Memory Lane Memorial Park	41.47495	-87.41126
Merrillville Cemetery	41.48573	-87.32605
Mount Mercy Cemetery	41.54715	-87.39782
Oak Hill Cemetery	41.53887	-87.34881
Oak Hill Cemetery	41.59753	-87.52022
Orchard Grove Cemetery	41.2865	-87.34432
Pleasant View Cemetery	41.49228	-87.41847
Plum Grove Cemetery	41.28908	-87.31811
Ridgelawn Cemetery	41.54642	-87.39292
Ross Cemetery	41.52785	-87.38367
Saint Edwards Cemetery	41.29668	-87.40272
Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery	41.57266	-87.24188
Saint John - Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery	41.59083	-87.48758
Saint John Cemetery	41.44875	-87.47092
Saint Joseph Cemetery	41.49314	-87.51529
Saint Marys Cemetery	41.41385	-87.37463
Saint Marys Cemetery	41.54725	-87.3967
Saint Marys Cemetery	41.58914	-87.46307
Saint Marys Cemetery	41.41364	-87.37475
Saint Michael's Cemetery	41.49039	-87.45233
Saint Michaels Cemetery	41.58954	-87.48882
Saint Nicholas Cemetery	41.59165	-87.48623
Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery	41.51773	-87.33033
Sanders Cemetery	41.24665	-87.45767
Schubert Cemetery	41.37779	-87.44696
Tolleston Cemetery	41.58269	-87.35519
Waldheim Cemetery	41.58271	-87.35212
West Creek Cemetery	41.24325	-87.50239
Zion United Church of Christ Cemetery	41.41543	-87.51348

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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