9th and Broadway, n.d., [849 Broadway]

Description:	On slide mount: CA, 9th + Broadway [902] Yes 849 Broadway1869The original L-plan portion of this building was built by Wesley Loney in 1869. He lived here for only one year, during which time he was a student. The property subsequently changed hands frequently until 1923 when Lewis E. Johnson purchased it. He and his wife continued to reside here until the late 1940s.Among the owners of this property and 859 Broadway (the two properties were not divided until 1917) was Mary Benham, the mother-in-law of Thaddeus S. Rollins (see 835 Broadway). Mary Benham was one of the earliest settlers of Indianapolis, coming here in 1829. After marrying James Benham in 1841, she moved to a farm in Tippecanoe County. She returned to Indianapolis in 1874 to live with the Rollins family following her husbands death.The many recent, fanciful, decorative features added to this house, combined with the asbestos shingle siding and rough-finished vertical siding, greatly disguise the early character of this house. Judging from the plainness of such elements as the gableboard and exposed rafter ends, this one-story cottage originally was probably quite simple.Chatham-Arch Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1982 single-family dwelling
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/HT/id/1155
Collection:	Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission Image Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Geography:	Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/4259418/, 39.76838, -86.15804
Subjects:	Architecture--Indiana--Indianapolis Built environment Historic districts Loney, Wesley Johnson E. Rollins, Thaddeus S. vernacular architecture gable roofs porches clapboard siding

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