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We Get to Live Here Learning from the Best MARCH/APRIL 2019 Our annual Back to the Future tour heads to Columbus WE GET TO LIVE HERE One-of-a-kind homes LEARNING FROM THE BEST Evansville hosts statewide preservation conference FROM THE PRESIDENT STARTERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS William R. Goins Rushville Hon. Randall T. Shepard Hop in the Honorary Chairman Tracy Haddad Columbus Parker Beauchamp Flivver Chairman David A. Haist Culver James P. Fadely, Ph.D. SETTLE INTO THE SEAT Past Chairman Judith A. Kanne Rensselaer of a classy breezer for Sara Edgerton Vice Chairman Christine H. Keck a one-of-a-kind look at Evansville Marsh Davis downtown Indianapolis President Matthew R. Mayol, AIA Indianapolis with Indiana Doris Anne Sadler History Secretary/Assistant Treasurer Sharon Negele Attica Landmarks President Thomas H. Engle Assistant Secretary Cheryl Griffith Nichols Marsh Davis. Ride Little Rock, AR Floats ALEX MORGAN IMAGING Brett D. McKamey with Davis and clas- Treasurer Martin E. Rahe CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM, HEDRICH-BLESSING COLLECTION MUSEUM, HEDRICH-BLESSING HISTORY CHICAGO Cincinnati, OH sic car collector Peter Judy A. O’Bannon Secretary Emerita James W. Renne Pappas in a 1929 Ford Newburgh he USS LST-325, moored on the Ohio River in Evansville, DIRECTORS George A. Rogge may be the only seaworthy war memorial in Indiana. LST Model A Phaeton and Gary Unparalleled Opportunity Hilary Barnes stands for Landing Ship Tank, the amphibious vessels that a 1936 Ford Phaeton Indianapolis Sallie W. Rowland Indianapolis Ttransported troops and equipment to beaches for invasions of on a personal tour BUILDING ON THE SUCCESS of our public/private partnership with the Edward D. Clere New Albany Peter J. Sacopulos Sicily, Salerno, and Normandy during World War II. LST-325 made highlighting the city’s Terre Haute National Park Service that saved four extraordinary homes from Chicago’s 1933/34 Ellen Swisher Crabb more than 40 round trips between England and France in 1944. In preservation and auto- Indianapolis Robert L. Santa Century of Progress Exposition, Indiana Landmarks is poised to offer the famed Bloomington motive history, with Cheri Dick fact, it’s one of only a few surviving U.S. warships that went ashore House of Tomorrow for lease to a party that will undertake its restoration. Zionsville Charlitta Winston Indianapolis on D-Day. Now owned and operated as a floating museum by stops for lunch and a A forward-looking, 12-sided glass invention, the House of Tomorrow created Olon F. Dotson Muncie John D. Zeglis LST Ship Memorial, Inc., it’s the private look at a clas- a sensation at the Exposition. After the fair closed, the house was towed on barge Culver Jeremy D. Efroymson only fully functional exam- LST-325 (left) sic and rare car col- Indianapolis Beau F. Zoeller across Lake Michigan to Beverly Shores, Indiana, where it continues to fascinate Indianapolis ple restored to its original and USS LST- lection. It’s just one of Gregory S. Fehribach 388 at low visitors to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, even in its current unrestored Indianapolis design. Visit lstmemorial.org the unique experiences condition. In 2016, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named it a tide during to learn more, or check out the invasion of we’ll auction at Rescue National Treasure and esteemed architectural critic Paul Goldberger hailed it as OFFICES & HISTORIC SITES the landmark in person dur- Normandy in Party on April 27, our “one of the true early monuments of American modernism.” ing Indiana’s Statewide June 1944. Headquarters Southeast Field Office annual fundraiser Readying the house for a long-term lease from the National Park Service Indiana Landmarks Center Aurora Preservation Conference in to save endangered 1201 Central Avenue 812 926 0983 required years of planning. Indiana Landmarks engaged a stellar team of Evansville, April 9-12 (more Indianapolis, IN 46202 Southwest Field Office places. Learn more at [email protected] architects and engineers, and we now have the specifications—approved by the Evansville details on pp. 6-7). indianalandmarks.org/ 317 639 4534 812 423 2988 National Park Service—to bring yesterday’s House of Tomorrow into the future 800 450 4534 Western Regional Office rescue-party-2019 WASSEL PAIGE BY PHOTO as a living, sustainable home. Leasing the House of Tomorrow offers an unparal- Northwest Field Office Terre Haute Gary 812 232 4534 leled opportunity to live in a stunning work of architecture that comes with an 219 947 2657 Huddleston Farmhouse equally spectacular view. Central Regional Office Cambridge City Indianapolis 765 478 3172 Interested parties, please contact Todd Zeiger, director of Indiana Landmarks’ 317 639 4534 Morris-Butler House Northern Regional Office, [email protected], or visit indianalandmarks. Eastern Regional Office Indianapolis Cambridge City 317 639 4534 org/house-of-tomorrow. 765 478 3172 Veraestau Northern Regional Office Aurora South Bend 812 926 0983 574 232 4534 French Lick and West Northeast Field Office Baden Springs tours Lustron homes still exist in Indiana—prefabricated Wabash 866 571 8687 (toll free) steel houses designed as an affordable solution to Marsh Davis, President 800 450 4534 812 936 5870 Southern Regional Office the post-WWII housing shortage. On May 3, Steve Jeffersonville 812 284 4534 and Laurie Snell will share their Lustron home’s Built in 1959, the mid-century home owned by Julie Aton in story during a talk at the Portage Lakefront Pavilion Columbus illustrates progressive residential design from the On the ©2019, Indiana Landmarks; ISSN#: 0737-8602 in advance of Indiana Landmarks’ Logs to Lustrons period. It’s one of five standouts on this year’s Back to the Future Cover Indiana Landmarks publishes Indiana Preservation bimonthly tour on May 4. See more on our website, tour on May 18. PHOTO BY APRIL KNOX PHOTOGRAPHY for members. To join and learn other membership benefits, visit indianalandmarks.org or contact memberships@ indianalandmarks.org. indianalandmarks.org, 317-639-4534 or 800-450-4534. To offer suggestions forIndiana Preservation, contact editor@ indianalandmarks.org. 2 INDIANA PRESERVATION indianalandmarks.org 3 BACK TO THE FUTURE the bedroom wing from the street. A massive skylight illuminates the foyer, which includes a built-in stone fountain the Rancks’ daughter Melissa recalls her parents would turn on when they were entertaining guests. A nurse, Melissa grew up in the house with three siblings and now lives there as her mother’s caregiver. Tall windows shed natural light on the living room, which features beamed ABOVE: At least for the Ranck House’s distinctive design along with many oth- vaulted ceilings and a stone corner two homes on ers. A Latvian native, Meijers and his wife Ruta immigrated this year’s tour fireplace. Nearby, the formal dining were designed by to the United States in 1949, arriving in Columbus in 1951, room includes three built-in interior Talivaldis “Ted” where he worked as a carpenter’s apprentice before establishing planters along a wall of glass overlook- Meijers, a prolific his construction firm. ing a freeform pool installed in 1975. Columbus home- Meijers constructed another home on this year’s tour in builder whose work The kitchen boasts original streamlined includes the 1962 the Noblitt Falls subdivision, known as “The Lagoons” for its cabinetry by the Nappanee-based high-style ranch man-made lakes. Built in 1959 for orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mutschler Company, Formica coun- (above) designed Floyd Mohler and his family, it is now home to local business- tertops, and a peninsula with built-in for Benjamin and woman Julie Aton. Passionate about Mid-Century Modern Esther Ranck. cook-top, stainless-steel counter, and She still lives in design, Aton shares her knowledge as a volunteer tour guide for copper vent hood supported by legs the home, where the Columbus Area Visitors Center. “I knew I had to have this resting on the counter. The sunken several rooms house on the very first day I toured it at the open house back retain original family room still features pecky cypress finishes and period in 2015,” Julie says. “I made an offer that same day, and have paneling, original pendant fixtures and furnishings. enjoyed furnishing it with period furniture and art.” Columbus Tour Spotlights Mid-Century Standouts built-in seating. Visitors on the May An architectural standout, the home’s post-and-beam con- BELOW LEFT: 18 tour will also see the cabana-like Inside the foyer struction supports a broad, central gabled roof with a window IT’S INCREASINGLY RARE TO FIND MODERNIST Indiana Modern’s finishes and period furnishings. It’s poolside laundry room with stand-in of Julie Aton’s wall overlooking the lake behind the house. Coupled with the houses occupied by their original owners. Like time capsules, annual Back to the one of five exceptional residences that shower, original cabinetry, and tile. home, a geomet- wide, screened-in back porch, the views give the home the feel- Future: A Mid- these homes offer a uniquely intimate and authentic glimpse will be featured on Indiana Modern’s Talivaldis “Ted” Meijers (1926- ric wooden grid ing of a lakeside resort. Century Modern creates a sense of an era. The high-style ranch built for Benjamin and Esther Home Tour on 2019 Back to the Future home tour in 2012) shaped much of Columbus’s of compressed The house is filled with features considered state-of-the Ranck in 1962 in Columbus, Indiana, is one such example. May 18 spotlights Columbus on May 18. residential designs during the mid- space accentuat- art in the late 1950s, including a built-in hamper that can Dr. Ranck passed away in 2015, but Esther continues to live in five exceptional Benjamin and Esther met in twentieth century. His local company, ing the vaulting be loaded in the master bathroom and unloaded in the adja- residences of the the home, where virtually all living spaces retain their original Bloomington while attending Indiana Custom Built Homes, is responsible living room ceiling cent laundry room.
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