31. 217 East High Street

Description:	This home, in what was once Port Fulton, but now a part of Jeffersonville, was built by Daniel French and his family around 1832 It is one of the few early Jeffersonville buildings to survive the flood of 1838. Daniel French invented a superior steamboat engine. The front of the home has a Federalist style face, with an extended open porch. It is perched on the top of a hill, with the wing on the back extending down the hill. This means that it looks like it is two stories, plus attic, does indeed have a below ground floor with external entrance on the wing. The back and side of the wing are enhanced with two wide open porches that run the length of the exterior, with wide steep steps leading down from the back of the house. In 1983, Eugene Stemler and his family owned the home.
Origin:	1983
Created By:	Day, Stephen
Contributor(s):	Burke, Jeanne
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll24/id/402
Collection:	Clark County Visual History
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Geography:	271 East High Street (Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana)
Subjects:	Architecture Inventors Steamboats Jeffersonville (Clark County, Indiana) -- History

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