The story
Read it all →How Dune Acres came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Dune Acres.
The Dune Acres Clubhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Dune Acres
16% of Dune Acres’ homes were built before 1940
Its Register listings are the Dune Acres Clubhouse and the Cowles Bog. Below: 5 old photos and papers from 1850 on.
2on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
5old photos & papers
By decade
Dune Acres, decade by decade
2 decades in the archive, from the 1850s to the 1970s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
18501970s4 items
1973
1973
1973
19731980s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your albumToday1 recent
2005Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this view1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Indiana - Porter County - ED 64-21, ED 64-22, ED 64-23, ED 64-24, ED 64…, 1850
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Dune Acres’ page.
Retake this view · +15On the National Register
2 historic places in Dune Acres
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
2007
Dune Acres Clubhouse
BuildingsSites
Architectural styles listings
Bungalow/Craftsman1
All 2 listings
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Dune Acres
Nobody well known was born in Dune Acres itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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Emil KonopinskiAmerican physicist · b. 1911Places that used to be
Old corners
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
Hamlets and corners on the map
Dune Acres Station
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Help out
Finish Dune Acres’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Dune Acres’ history
What is on the National Register in Dune Acres?
Two places: the Dune Acres Clubhouse (listed 2007) and the Cowles Bog (2025).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
Where this page comes from
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.