Jenckes House

Description:	Drawing of the Jenckes House by Juliet A. Peddle Terre Haute architect and artist. The Jenckes home which stood on the present site of Highland Lawn cemetery. Drawing by Juliet A. Peddle Terre Haute architect and artist.One of the very early houses built in Vigo County was the house erected by John and Daniel Jenckes on a site now included in the Highland Lawn cemetery.The Jenckes family came to Vigo County from Providence, RH. John came out first in 1816 and his brothers, Daniel and Bowers, followed a little later. The father made the trip by carriage-rather an unusual and notable trip in that day. The brothers had taken up a claim of 3,000 acres which included the cemetery and other adjoining land. Their father had the eastern idea of building a Mansion House and influenced his sons to build a few miles from town on their farmland rather than in the village. In 1820 or 1821 they erected a substantial story and a half brick house which was known as The Hills.Another brother, Joseph, was married in the east to an Isabelle Greene and brought her to this house to live about 1833. I have not been able to locate any more information about the early form of the house than I give you here and since it is inadequate for a restoration drawing, I am reproducing the house as it was in later years after certain alterations had been made to the original structure.An early account of this house says that the second story and veranda were added during the Civil War period. In studying the house it seems to me that there may have been other modifications to the structure at some time as the low wing to the right has different characteristics from the two-story portion.About 300 feet south of the residence was a brickyard where the hand-made brick used in the construction of the house were made.The Jenckes family did not live in the house during the latter part of its existence, and in the years immediately preceding its removal it was occupied by the caretaker of the cemetery. The house was torn down about thirty years ago and the location is now marked by the Jenckes monument on the top of the south hill in Highland Lawn cemetery.
Origin:	01/01/2005
Contributor(s):	Peddle, Juliet, 1899-1979
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/rose/id/812
Collection:	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Logan Library
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Copyright:	Copyright Undetermined
Subjects:	Architectural drawings Architecture Houses Jenckes family Architecture Domestic Life

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