Editing Ogden Dunes, Indiana (section)

==History==
{{see also|History of the Indiana Dunes}}
[[File:Silvermine Ski-Jump 1.jpg|thumb|upright|Ogden Dunes Ski-Jump at its Silvermine, Eau Claire, Wisc. location.]]
Samuel Reck purchased the land from the estate of Francis Ogden in 1923. The town was platted a year later. The town had 50 residents in 1930.  By the 1950s, there were almost 800 residents and 1,000 in 1991.<ref name=HLIR>Porter County, Interim Report, Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory; Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana; Indianapolis, Indiana; 1991 pg 143</ref> The town was incorporated in 1925 to establish long term [[Right-of-way (property access)|right of way]] across the [[New York Central Railroad]] tracks. The developers planned to create a resort community with a golf course, clubhouse and hotel. As development lagged, plans were dropped. Sand roads served the community until cinders placed on main street in 1931.

In the later 1920s Ogden Dunes was noted for having the largest ski jump in the country. International skiing competitions were held on this 30-story high, 500-foot long slide until it was dismantled in 1932.<ref name=HLIR/><ref name="skijump">{{cite web | url=http://www.inportercounty.org/PhotoPages/OgdenDunes/OgdenDunes001.html | title=Porter County, Indiana, GenWeb – Photographs & Historical Images | access-date=March 10, 2011}}</ref> In 1927, the Grand Beach Ski Club, later the Ogden Dunes Ski Club, bought a piece of land on one of the high dunes in the town. They constructed a {{convert|192|ft|m}}-tall ski jump.  The first meet was held on January 22, 1928.  For the next four years, meets were held in Ogden Dunes. The longest jump ever reported on this structure was 195 feet. In 1932, the Norwegian Olympic Team of Birger Rund, Hans Beck, and Kaare Wahlberg (gold, silver, and bronze medalists) came to Ogden Dunes to try the tower. During the [[Great Depression]] the Ski Club had financial setbacks; combined with little snow, the club looked to sell the tower.
*In 1935, a ski club in [[Rockford, Illinois]], purchased the tower and moved it that summer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.inportercounty.org/PhotoPages/OgdenDunes/OgdenDunes001.html|title=Porter County, Indiana, GenWeb - Photographs & Historical Images|website=www.inportercounty.org}}</ref> The Rockford Ski Club built ski jump at along the [[Kishwaukee River]] (Rockford Rotary County Forest Preserve) near the end 1920's. It was expanded in 1936 by adding the steel [[Ski flying#Inrun|inrun tower]] from Ogden Dunes.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Ski Jumping Hill - Rockford| url=http://www.skisprungschanzen.com/EN/Ski+Jumps/USA-United+States/IL-Illinois/Rockford/0770/}}</ref> 
*Moving the tower was repeated a third time in 1955 when the tower was moved to [[Eau Claire, Wisconsin]] and erected at Hendrickson Hill along the [[Chippewa River (Wisconsin)|Chippewa River]] in what is now the [[University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire]] Campus.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Ski Jumping Hill Archives - Hendrickson Hill | url=http://www.skisprungschanzen.com/EN/Ski+Jumps/USA-United+States/WI-Wisconsin/Eau+Claire/2092-Hendrickson+Hill/}}</ref> In 1968-69 Hendrickson Hill the hill was abandoned and the steel tower was once again dismantled and reassembled in its new location at Silver Mine Hill, {{convert|4.5|mi|km}} downstream on the Chippewa River. The ski jump is still used at this site.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Ski Jumping Hill Archives - Silver Mine | url=http://www.skisprungschanzen.com/EN/Ski+Jumps/USA-United+States/WI-Wisconsin/Eau+Claire/0720-Silver+Mine/}}</ref>

Two early houses (11008,11009) on Ski Hill Road are simple yet stylish homes built on the steep and lovely wooded hills of Ogden Dunes. Later structures along the beach include two outstanding houses (11001, 11004), which reflect the area's emergence as a fashionable and exclusive residential area in Porter County.<ref name=HLIR/>

===Structures of historic significance===
{| class="class="wikitable floatright" style="width: 1000px; height: 400px;" style="border-spacing: 2px; border: 1px solid darkgray"
| colspan=3 style="text-align: center;"|'''Notable Houses of Architectural Interest'''<ref name=HLIR/>
|-
! style="width: 130px;" | '''Location'''
! style="width: 140px;" | '''Architectural Style'''
! style="width: 90px;" | '''Year Built'''
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |Shore Drive; 
| style="text-align: left;" |Colonial Revival
| style="text-align: right;" |c.1930
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |Cedar Trail; 
| style="text-align: left;" |Spanish Eclectic
| style="text-align: right;" |c.1930
|-

| style="text-align: left;" |43 Cedar Trail; 
| style="text-align: left;" | FLW Usonian 
| style="text-align: right;" |c.1939
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |86 Shore Drive; 
| style="text-align: left;" |Craftsman
| style="text-align: right;" |c.1925
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |114 Shore Drive; 
| style="text-align: left;" |French Eclectic
| style="text-align: right;" |c.1915
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |18 Sunset Trail; 
| style="text-align: left;" |English Cottage, 
| style="text-align: right;" |c.1930
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |26 Sunset Trail; 
| style="text-align: left;" |English Cottage
| style="text-align: right;" |c.1930
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |3 Sunset Trail; 
| style="text-align: left;" |International
| style="text-align: right;" |1941
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |7 Ski Hill Road; 
| style="text-align: left;" |Tudor Revival
| style="text-align: right;" |c.1930
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |15 Ski Hill Road; 
| style="text-align: left;" |Spanish Eclectic
| style="text-align: right;" |c.1925
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |127 Ogden Road;
| style="text-align: left;" |English Cottage
| style="text-align: right;" |c.1925
|-
|}