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MAY/JUNE 2019 Award-worthy Madison’s Shrewsbury- Windle House takes 10 MOST Cook Cup ENDANGERED Indiana places in jeopardy LEADING BY EXAMPLE Our southern office moves to New Albany FROM THE PRESIDENT STARTERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS LANDMARK LEXICON OFFICERS William R. Goins Rushville Hon. Randall T. Shepard Honorary Chairman Tracy Haddad Columbus Palmette Parker Beauchamp Chairman David A. Haist Culver IN ARCHITECTURE, a Seeking Solutions James P. Fadely, Ph.D. Past Chairman Judith A. Kanne palmette is a fan-shaped Rensselaer EACH SPRING INDIANA LANDMARKS RELEASES ITS Sara Edgerton ornament resembling Vice Chairman Christine H. Keck Evansville a palm leaf. Palmettes 10 Most Endangered list. Inspired by the environmental Marsh Davis President Matthew R. Mayol, AIA adorn the decorative iron movement’s focus on endangered species, over time many Indianapolis Doris Anne Sadler fence and balconies on preservation organizations began creating such lists as a call Secretary/Assistant Treasurer Sharon Negele Attica to arms for saving historic places. Success for environmental- Thomas H. Engle the Shrewsbury-Windle Assistant Secretary Cheryl Griffith Nichols Little Rock, AR House in Madison, ists means the regeneration of a species. For preservationists, Brett D. McKamey Treasurer Martin E. Rahe perhaps incorporated it’s the rescue and revitalization of a special place. Conversely, Cincinnati, OH Judy A. O’Bannon into the home’s design and respectively, failure means extinction and the loss of an Secretary Emerita James W. Renne Newburgh in a nod to Charles irreplaceable landmark. DIRECTORS George A. Rogge Gary Shrewsbury’s involve- Indiana Landmarks uses its 10 Most Endangered list in Hilary Barnes Indianapolis Sallie W. Rowland ment with the Palmetto several ways. Sometimes it serves an educational role. It func- Indianapolis Edward D. Clere Flour Mill, which oper- © AUBURN CORD DUESENBERG MUSEUM New Albany Peter J. Sacopulos tions as an advocacy tool. And it can assist in raising funds Terre Haute ated in Madison in the Ellen Swisher Crabb needed to save a place. But in all cases, when an endangered Indianapolis Robert L. Santa mid-1800s. Read about Bloomington place lands on our list, we commit to seeking solutions that Cheri Dick the house, winner of Zionsville Charlitta Winston Wright Approved Indianapolis lead to rescue and revitalization. Every listing comes with Olon F. Dotson our 2019 Cook Cup for Muncie John D. Zeglis rchitect Frank Lloyd Wright’s love of good design extended significant challenges. Success is never a forgone conclusion. Culver Outstanding Restoration, Jeremy D. Efroymson to the automobiles he drove. Among his collection, he Of the 139 listings since 1991 when Indiana Landmarks Indianapolis Beau F. Zoeller on pp. 4-5. Indianapolis favored the Cord L-29 designed by Auburn Automobile inaugurated the 10 Most Endangered program, we can count Gregory S. Fehribach Indianapolis A Company stylist Alan Leamy. In a testimonial published by the com- 37 as restored, 48 safe, 38 still endangered, and 16 lost—a com- pany, Wright opined, “…the proportion and lines of the Cord, too, mendable record considering the host of threats encountered OFFICES & HISTORIC SITES come nearer to expressing the beauty of both science and logic along the way. Among the saved and restored places are some Headquarters Southeast Field Office than any car I have ever seen.” Wright loved the Indiana-made auto- Indiana Landmarks has saved outright. Many others involved Indiana Landmarks Center Aurora mobile so much, in fact, that he bought a Cord L-29 Cabriolet years 1201 Central Avenue 812 926 0983 collaborative efforts. And nearly all projects require more Indianapolis, IN 46202 Southwest Field Office after wrecking his Cord L-29 Phaeton in 1933. You can see Wright’s [email protected] Evansville signature-orange Cabriolet at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg time than the one or two years the endangered place appears 317 639 4534 812 423 2988 800 450 4534 Automobile Museum’s “Cars of the Stars” exhibit. Check it out with on the list. Western Regional Office Northwest Field Office Terre Haute Gary us on Indiana Automotive’s excursion to Auburn on July 26-27. I hope you’ll find the 2019 10 Most Endangered list motivating 812 232 4534 219 947 2657 Learn more about the trip on p. 15. as we work together to secure a future for Indiana’s heritage. Huddleston Farmhouse Central Regional Office Cambridge City Indianapolis 765 478 3172 317 639 4534 PHOTOGRAPHY FLECK SUSAN Morris-Butler House Eastern Regional Office Indianapolis Cambridge City 317 639 4534 765 478 3172 Veraestau Northern Regional Office Aurora Tiffany Studios-designed South Bend 812 926 0983 574 232 4534 stained-glass windows French Lick and West Marsh Davis, President Northeast Field Office Baden Springs tours illuminate the interior of Wabash 866 571 8687 (toll free) Richmond’s Reid Memorial 800 450 4534 812 936 5870 Southern Regional Office Presbyterian Church, a new Jeffersonville The Shrewsbury-Windle House’s spiral staircase is one of several 812 284 4534 entry on Indiana Landmarks’ eye-catching features returned to their original glory during Historic 10 Most Endangered list in On the Madison, Inc.’s, restoration of the 1849 house as an events venue. Read ©2019, Indiana Landmarks; ISSN#: 0737-8602 2019. Read more about the Cover about the landmark, winner of the 2019 Cook Cup for Outstanding Indiana Landmarks publishes Indiana Preservation bimonthly Restoration, on pp.4-5. PHOTO BY SUSAN FLECK PHOTOGRAPHY for members. To join and learn other membership benefits, stunning house of worship visit indianalandmarks.org or contact memberships@ on p. 12. LEE LEWELLEN indianalandmarks.org, 317-639-4534 or 800-450-4534. To offer suggestions forIndiana Preservation, contact editor@ indianalandmarks.org. 2 INDIANA PRESERVATION indianalandmarks.org 3 COOK CUP 2019 taken a toll. Only a portion of the house was heated, and air condition- ing had never been installed—factors that limited the property’s public use. Working with Indianapolis-based RATIO Architects, Historic Madison developed a plan to address repairs and adapt the property to host meetings, receptions, and events. Outside, work- ers replaced the roof and fixed water issues, cleaned and repointed masonry, restored the home’s 1849 color scheme, and installed a sympathetic ramp to make the first floor accessible. Inside, crews repaired plaster and used historic photographs to replicate the drawing room’s original carpet. The four-year, $2.2 million project Williamsport, Indiana-based Acanthus addressed years of Arts conserved the c.1859 paint in the deferred mainte- Restoration Revives Madison Masterpiece drawing room. A new catering kitchen nance in the house and restrooms on the first floor sup- restoring it to how it would have Historic Madison, UPON ITS COMPLETION IN 1849, CHARLES House in 1948 that they decided to port the home’s expanded use. appeared when Inc., won the Shrewsbury’s Greek Revival-style home in Madison defined leave Chicago, buy the house, and begin Engineers faced a bigger challenge the Shrewsburys 2019 Cook Cup owned the property Antebellum elegance, with high-ceilinged rooms, decorative for Outstanding restoring it for their home and antiques in figuring out how to add modern while updating it columns, and floor-to-ceiling windows framing views of the Restoration for business. Over the ensuing decades, mechanical and lighting systems for modern use. its superb trans- Ohio River. Architect Francis Costigan displayed his genius the Windles became a driving force for without marring the home’s historic Historic photos formation of the in the Shrewsbury home’s crowning feature: a spiral staircase historic preservation, founding Historic appearance. High-efficiency heat- guided replication Shrewsbury-Windle of the original oil- ascending from the front foyer up through the entire height of House. Designed Madison in 1960, and convincing locals ing and cooling units went into the the original gas light fixtures, now fitted with LED lamps and an cloth floor covering by architect Francis the house. It was a showplace built for entertaining. and visitors to recognize the city’s archi- basement and attic, with lines running in the entryway. electronic control system since the home has no light switches. Costigan, the In envisioning a future for the Shrewsbury-Windle House tecture as its key economic asset. through the back of closets and a non- PHOTOS BY (RIGHT) LEE Aided by a $375,000 matching gift from the Jeffris Family National Historic LEWELLEN, (BELOW) more than 150 years later, Historic Madison, Inc., decided “The Windles had a way of getting working chimney. Electricians restored © HISTORIC MADISON, INC. Foundation, a $250,000 anonymous gift, a $50,000 grant from Landmark is con- to honor the house’s history as a gathering place by turning it sidered one of the people to fall in love with history by the Community Foundation of Madison & Jefferson County, into an events venue. The group’s four-year transformation of nation’s premier introducing them to a place with living $35,000 from the Jefferson County Historic Preservation Fund, the National Historic Landmark earned Indiana Landmarks’ Greek Revival history, rather than just a time capsule. and many individual donors, Historic Madison raised $2.2 mil- designs and the 2019 Cook Cup for Outstanding Restoration, presented at our birthplace of local They had this amazing house on the lion for the Shrewsbury-Windle House restoration. Rescue Party on April 27. preservation in river where they’d invite you in, give “The house has always been known as a gathering place “With this project, Historic Madison demonstrates the Madison. In repur- you a drink, and let you see how won- for people interested in history, architecture, and antiques. highest standards of restoration,” says Indiana Landmarks posing the land- derful it is,” says Chicago architect Paul What better way to honor the Shrewsburys and Windles than mark as an events President Marsh Davis.