Northwest Field Office
Gary - Miller Beach
Helping neighbors save buildings and other places that matter in Jasper, Lake, Newton, and Porter counties.
Where We're Located
Our field office occupies the 1928 Illinois Bell Telephone building in downtown Miller Beach, a historic area annexed by Gary in 1918. Check out the Nelson Algren mini-park adjacent to our office.
The Northwest Field Office serves four counties, working with individuals and groups to save historic places and offering restoration advice.
Sandwiched between East Chicago’s hulking steel mills and refineries, the quaint anachronism called Marktown originated in 1917 as a planned community for workers
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After years of admiring a brick bungalow in Valparaiso, Steve and Patricia Ingram can finally call the historic home their own. But that’s only half of the story.
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Visit five homes featured in the 1933 “Century of Progress” Chicago World’s Fair, relocated to the Indiana shore of Lake Michigan.