Tate-Willis House, 228 N. East St., Indianapolis

Description:	[c. 1962] Tate-Willis House. 228 N. East Street, Indianapolis, Marion County. Warren Tate original, Cecil L. Willis present owner. Charles G. Mueller architect, Indiana Houses of the Nineteenth Century (Page 155) Warren T. Tate built this impressive two-and-a-half story house at 228 North East Street, replacing a one-story dwelling. Tate (1825-1896) was a native of Lawrenceburg, Indiana where he had established a lumber planing mill and furniture factory. He moved to Indianapolis in the 1860s and started a planing mill here. Indianapolis architect Charles G. Mueller was commissioned by Tate to design this house at 228 North East Street. Mueller was born in Indianapolis in 1856 and studied architecture under German-born and trained architect, Henry R. Huebner. The firm of Huebner and Mueller was formed in 1879. The firm designed buildings throughout the state including buildings for the C. F. Schmidt Brewing Company and the Maus Brewery, both leading German-American breweries of nineteenth century Indianapolis. The Tate House is an example of the German Renaissance Style, which Mueller may have learned from his mentor and partner Huebner, who studied architecture at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. The Tate-Willis House was noted in 1962 by Wilbur D. Peat in his Indiana Houses of the Nineteenth Century. Built in 1891-92, the house has been owned and maintained by Cecil L. Willis since 1961. Tate-Willis House (Contd) Features of this extraordinary house include its prominent gables with fractables, limestone accents, octagonal corner tower with metal concave roof, slate-clad hip and gable roof, grouped windows, rounded and elliptic arches, stained-glass windows, and Palladian window and side entrance. The house stands today intact with virtually no exterior alterations. -Lockerbie Square Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1987, Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission Yes
Created By:	Peat, Wilbur D. (1898-1966)
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ILWDPeat/id/375
Collection:	Indiana Landmarks Wilbur D. Peat Collection
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Copyright:	Copyright Indiana Landmarks. Copyright permissions granted for educational use by Indiana Landmarks
Geography:	Indianapolis Marion Indiana Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/4259418/, 39.76838, -86.15804
Subjects:	Built Environment Historic buildings--Indiana Architecture--Indiana German Renaissance Revival single family dwelling

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