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Wieboldt-Rostone House, 270 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN
Wieboldt-Rostone House, 270 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN
Wieboldt-Rostone House, 270 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN
Wieboldt-Rostone House, 270 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN
Wieboldt-Rostone House, 270 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN
Wieboldt-Rostone House, 270 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN
Wieboldt-Rostone House, 270 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN
Wieboldt-Rostone House, 270 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN
Wieboldt-Rostone House, 270 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN
Wieboldt-Rostone House, 270 Lake Front Drive (moved from Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN
Summary
Significance: The Rostone House is one of five houses from the Home and Industrial Arts Group moved at the end of the fair by Robert Bartlett to his lakeside subdivision at Beverly Shores, Indiana. Rostone, a synthetic stone composed primarily of shale and limestone waste, was an experimental building material showcased at a Century of Progress Exposition.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N253
Survey number: HABS IN-240
Building/structure dates: 1933 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1935
Building/structure dates: 1935 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 86001472
Tags
houses
offices
exhibition facilities
beverly shores
wieboldt rostone
house
wieboldt rostone house
front
drive
lake front drive
chicago
shores
porter
porter county
indiana
historic american buildings survey
walter scholer
photo
library of congress
national register of historic places
Date
1933 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Scholer, Walter
Location
beverly shores
,
41.52486, -87.10237
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html