Indiana Houses of the Nineteenth Century
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:V-iJ.!l.l.i^.;;'^i',t :i1#':isj,:i From the library of Francis J. Koenig Library of the University of Illinois AT Urbana-Champaign ISTORICAt SURVEV. Indiana Houses of the Nineteenth Century Wilbur D. Peat INDIANA HOUSES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Indianapolis 1962 Copyright © 1962 by the Indiana Historical Society Reprinted by Offset 1969 This volume has been prepared and published under grants to the Indiana Historical Society from Lilly Endowment, Inc. Pref:ace AME^CAN who is in the habit traveling, which is almost FVEKY of equivalent to saying every American, must have noticed the inexhaustible demand for rural residences that is perceptible in every part of the Northern States. Nothing like it has yet occurred in the world's history; and although hard times undoubtedly occur in America, as well as elsewhere, at occasional intervals, it would seem that the profits which are missed by one man, contrive, somehow, to slide into the pockets of other more successful operators; for the carpenters and masons appear to be always getting a full percentage of the floating capital, and the hall is kept merrily rolling under all changes of individual circumstances. Such being the fact, whatever may be its philosophy, it seems evident that the season must come when the importance of the whole subject of domestic architecture will be fairly and fully recogni^d. It can not he possible that the energetic vitality which pervades this branch of home manufacture will, for any great length of time, remain satisfied to expend its intensity on meagre, monotonous, unartistic buildings, or that it will continue to pay out millions of dollars every year without the propriety ofgetting, habitually, something worth having for the money. In an intelligent age and country like this, ugly buildings should be the exception: not, as hitherto, the almost invariable rule. The above transcript, which has a surprisingly contemporary ring, was written by an architect a little less than a hundred years ago. It appeared as the opening remarks in Calvert Vaux's work, Villas and Cottages, A Series of Designs Prepared for Execution in the United States (1869). My reason for quoting it is not so much to use it as the text of a sermon, lamenting the poor quality and low artistic worth of so many houses in our mushrooming suburban developments (which I am tempted to do), but to reiterate the first lines of his second para- graph: I, too, hope the time will come when the importance of the entire subject of domestic architecture will be fairly and fully recog- nized in this country. V Preface This book can do nothing to improve the quahty of mass- produced small homes in our time. This is not its purpose. But it might make a contribution to the "entire subject of domestic archi- tecture" by helping us analyze and judge architectural compositions, as well as by enabling us to appreciate some of the best of our fore- fathers' efforts in their desire to build good domiciles for them- selves. But more about this later. Here I would like to express my appreciation to the many people who helped make this book possible. I wish that I could somehow thank Calvert Vaux, and his partner Andrew Jackson Downing, and Asher Benjamin, and a score of other nineteenth-century architects for their treatises. Likewise, many living architects and architeaural historians have aided through their books, their magazine articles, and, in some instances, their valuable suggestions after reading the manuscript. Special mention may be made of the help given by Walter Creese, John T. Forbes, and Howard E. Wooden. Assistance was given, too, by many people working voluntarily on the county survey project who sent to the office of the Indiana Historical Society photographs and descriptions of old houses in their sections of the state. Acknowledgment of their help is made at the end of this volume. Wilbur D. Peat John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis VI March, 1962 7 Contents Introduction xi I. Architectural Styles of the Nineteenth Century 3 n. The Federal Mode 9 III. The Neo-Classic Mode: Roman and Greek Revivals 37 IV. The Gothic Mode 85 V. Composite Styles and the Octagon Plan 91 VI. The Anglo-Italian Mode 1 1 VII. The Franco-American Mode 129 VIII. The Neo-Jacobean Mode 149 IX. The French Romanesque Mode 158 X. Indiana Architects of the Nineteenth Century 181 Acknowledgments 191 Index by Towns 193 Vll Roman and Greek Revival Plates 27. Ellis-La Plante House, Vincennes 28. Lanier—Jeffery House, Madison 29. Kintner—Withers House, south of Laconia 30. Canal House, Connersville 31. Rowell—Champion House, Goshen 32. Stockwell-Geiger House, Lafayette Plates through follow page Plates I through ^2follow page 20 3 3 g6 52 3. Billingsley-Miller House, west of Hartford Federal Style 3 34. Swayzee—Erlewine House, Marion Harrison House, "Grouseland," Vincennes 3 5. Walker-Ewing House, Logansport Vance—Tousey House, Lawrenceburg 36. Hawkins-Lane House, Crawfordsville Floyd—Hendricks-Griffin House, Corydon 37. Tripp-Cull-Johnson House, North Vernon Coffin-Foreman House, Fountain City 38. Hanna-Hayden House, Fort Wayne McKee-Powell-White House, Madison 39. Campbell-Banta House, Crawfordsville Allison-Hyatt House, Madison 40. Burgess—Schnelker House, New Haven Robinson-Schofield House, Madison 41. Potter House, Lafayette Goudie- Moore House, east of Brookville 42. Peacock-Poston House, Attica Bookwalter—Lordan House, south of Rob Roy 43. Wright-Monroe House, west of Vevay Mills-Gregg House, Crawfordsville 44. Marsh-Wesbecker House, Madison Stout—Brown House, west of Bloomington 4 5. Howe House, Howe Ames-Paton House, west of La Porte 46. Wheeler-Gould- Mosier House, Bristol Lantz-Mulligan-Boyd House, Centerville 47. Provolt-McGuire House, Rolling Prairie Jeremiah Sullivan House, Madison 48. Fowler-Oberholtzer House, Bristol Wylie-Hershey House, Bloomington 49. Butler-Lewis House, Dupont Roberts- Morton House, east of Newburgh 50. Wilson-Gleason House, Peru Elston House, Crawfordsville 5 1. Armstrong-Copeland House, Vevay Speakman—Tallentire-Johnson House, north of 52. Gray—Thompson House, Rising Sun southeast of Glenwood Howland-Goodwin-Strohmier House, Brookville 5 3. Henry—Clawson House, Delphi Typical Federal-style doors, Taylor- May House, 54. Kikendall-Welling House, north of Madison Madison 55. Rapp-Maclure-Owen House, New Harmoily 20. Grisamore—Tyler House, Jeffersonville 56. Foster-Schuck House, northwest of Rolling 21. Gramelspacher-Gutzweiler House, Jasper Prairie 22. Dufour—Andrew House, Vevay 57. Vore-Hunnicutt House, west of Dublin 23. Conner-Lilly House, south of Noblesville 58. Amick-Ward House, northwest of Scipio 24. Dewees-Preston—Smith House, Terre Haute 59. Smith-Anderson House, Perrysville 25- Witt-Myers House, Dublin 60. McMurtrie—Rupert House, east of Attica 26. Smith-Huston House, south of Connersville 6 1. Ewing House, Fort Wayne Plates 62. Conklin- Montgomery House, Cambridge City Octagon Type 6 3. Read-Foster-Reese House, Vernon 64. Jones-Hampton House, Perrysville 93. Horne-Michael-Sargent House, Cloverdale 65. Grizard—Sieglitz House, Vevay 94. Crooks-Painter-Anderson House, Rockport 66. Murphy-Bailey House, New Castle 9 5. Hall-Crull House, west of Raleigh 67. Holstein-Whitsitt House, Madison 96. Rose-Kuehl House, Valparaiso 68. Carpenter House, Evansville 69. McDonald-Scribner House, Attica 70. Schenck-Griffith House, Vevay Plates 97 through 12S follow page 100 71. Milford-Miller House, Attica Italianate 72. Shrewsbury—Windle House, Madison 73. Lanier House, Madison 97. Riley House, Greenfield 74. Parlor of the James F. D. Lanier House 98. Beeson House, west of Bentonville 99. Stonebraker-Harter House, Hagerstown 00. Sloan-Paris House, New Albany GotKic Revival 01. Dietz-Ogden House, Lawrenceburg 75- Thompson- Mount-Ruble House, 02. Pleak House, north of Greensburg west of Greensburg 03. Heaton-Bond-Irwin House, Michigantown 76. Lyons-Jones House, Rochester 04. Hauck-Schaeffer House, west of Kokomo 77- Hunt-Hicks House, west of Danville 05. Swan-Anderson House, La Porte 78. Lehman-Rogers House, Hanover 06. Ludovici-Cajacob House, Terre Haute 79- Halstead-Campbell House, Franklin 07. Sage-Robinson-Nagel House, Terre Haute Durborow—Broadie-Davisson House, 08. Gonter-Davis House, Brazil Williamsport 09. Youngman-Becker House, southeast of Fairfield 81. Chapin—Willis House, South Bend 10. Benjamin Harrison House, Indianapolis 82. Fowler House, Lafayette 1 1. James Whitcomb Riley House, Indianapolis Dewey-Clawson House, Delphi 12. Bals-Wocher House, Indianapolis Ornamental gable, Sansberry-Riggs House, 1 3. Coleman-Lairy House, Logansport near Fairbanks 14. Waldron-Frasch House, Lafayette Ramey-Milligan House, Crawfordsville 1 5. Guthrie-Pickett House, Tunnelton 85. Dumont— Miller House, Vevay 16. Hamilton-Hunter House, Shelbyville 86. Owen House, New Harmony 17. Smith—Cripe House, Kendallville 87. Stone-Herron House, north of Wabash 18. Edwards-Aimone House, Clinton Swallow House, east of Pennville 19. Justice-Puterbaugh House, Logansport 20. McCord-Stoll House, New Albany 21. Drover-Ditzler House, Huntington Composite Style 22. McClelland-Layne House, Crawfordsville 89. Houck—Harris House, Centerville 2 3. Sonntag-Kiechle House, Evansville 90. Hackleman-Dillon House, Rushville 24. Foellinger-Lutes House, Fort Wayne Albany 9 1. Heritage-Cortner House, Knightstown 2 5. Cromie House, New 92. Riddile-Loomis House, Battle Ground 26. Sutton-Turner House, Richmond Plates 127. Thompson—Sconce House, Edinburg Neo-Jacobean 128. Nixon-Fosdick House, Liberty Plates 161 through i(^^ follow page 164 Plates 129 through 160 follow page 132 161. Clevenger-McConaha House, Centerville 129. Howard-Patrick House, Indianapolis 162. Hanson—Dowden House, Indianapolis 1 30. Hoerner—Zuttermeister House, Richmond 163. Daugherty—Tobian House, Shelbyville 131. Tumey- Mathews House, Rising Sun 164. Weesner—Talbert House, Wabash 132. Bachman-Pitman House, Logansport 165. Gilmore House, Greencastle 133. Stumpf House, IndianapoHs 166. Wilson—Beck House, Washington 134. Rinehart—Baum House, Delphi 167. Woodfill—Robbins House, Greensburg 135. Fitch House, Lawrenceburg 168. Kitselman-Rector House, Muncie 136.