637 N. East St.
| Description: |
On slide mount: 637 N. East St., IHPC Yes Stewart House637-639 N. East Street1896Jonathan Stewart, a carpenter and building contractor, built this large residence as a two-family house in 1896. Before buying the property and then deciding to build a new residence, Stewart and his wife Alice had been tenants of a small, one-story dwelling dating to the mid 1800s that existed on this corner. They lived at 637 N. East until 1910. The entire house was then rented to a long series of short-term tenants, including Carl F. Millican, a machinist, and his wife Mary, and Grant Keener, a cigar maker, who were neighbors between 1913 and 1916.Variation is the keynote in this house, in its plan, its roof forms, its materials, and its decorative detail. On the north and south sides of the house, extensions in plan are roofed by broad gables, but exhibit different facades. On the south, the second floor cantilevers as in a Colonial garrison house, and on the north, the windows of the gable end have been recessed behind colonettes. The three-sided bay attached at the east is crowned by a demi-turret with dormer. Before the application of asbestos shingle siding, the first floor exhibited a brick veneer, the second story was wood sided, and gable ends were shingled. Accenting these materials are stone window lintels, leaded glass window transoms, and a plasterwork floral pattern in the tympanum of the wraparound porchs pediment.Chatham-Arch Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1982 single- family dwelling |
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| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/HT/id/1217 |
| 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 Queen Anne hip roofs gable-on-hip roofs gablets pedimented dormers insulbrick two-story bay windows porches columns slate |
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