Adelbert S. Benson House, 1616 North Delaware St., Indianapolis

Description:	[c. 1962] This house was constructed and occupied by Adelbert S. Benson between 1894 and 1898. The Bensens lived here until 1940 when the house was owner-occupied by Robert Wanee. Wanee sold the property in 1958. The house was divided into ten apartments in 1970.This is a 2 1/2-story, frame Queen Anne Style house with a pyramidal hip roof with gabled projections on each facade. There is clapboarding and imbricated shingling in the pediments and a t the top of the second story. The principal features of this house are the cutaway corner windows with trim, a full-width front porch with pediment, and scroll work in the curved bargeboard of the attic gable. The porch posts have been replaced with steel supports.-Herron-Morton Place Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1986, Indianapolis Historic Preservation CommissionThis is a 2 1/2-story, frame Queen Anne Style house with a pyramidal hip roof with gabled projections on each facade. There is clapboarding and imbricated shingling in the pediments and a t the top of the second story. The principal features of this house are the cutaway corner windows with trim, a full-width front porch with pediment, and scroll work in the curved bargeboard of the attic gable. The porch posts have been replaced with steel supports.-Herron-Morton Place Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1986, Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission Yes
Created By:	Peat, Wilbur D. (1898-1966)
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ILWDPeat/id/480
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 Queen Anne single family dwelling

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