Markle House

Description:	Markle House, east of North Terre Haute. Drawing by Juliet A. Peddle, Terre Haute Artist and Architect. THE MARKLE HOME, EAST OF NORTH TERRE HAUTE. DRAWING BY JULIE B. PEDDLE, TERRE HAUTE ARTIST AND ARCHITECT.The Markle House, although not within the town site of early Terre Haute, belonged to the early community which centered in Terre Haute. It is located north of the city just east of North Terre Haute and across the road from the old mill site which is a familiar landmark to most of us in this area.The house was built by a son of Major Abraham Markle, who brought his family out to Indiana in 1816. Major Markle saw a future for this location as a town site and had a hand in the laying out of the original town of Terre Haute. He also hunted out the most desirable mill site he could find in the vicinity and built his mill there in 1817. About the same time he built a frame house across the road, where he lived.The majors son, Henry, followed him at the mill. He was followed by his brother Fred, and it was this son who, in 1848, built the house illustrated above.The new house was built farther back from the road but near the old one. The original frame house is gone now but stood there until very recently.In the course of time the mill was sold to Mr. Hansel, but the house has remained in the Markle family, being occupied at present by the W. D. Markle family.This house is quite a large one. I am told that the north end on the first floor had offices in it, and there was a stair to the rooms above, separate from the main house stairs, where the boys rooms were.The general proportions of the building are characteristic of the Greek revival period, and the windows and porch columns are quite definitely of this time. The cornice, however, begins to show signs of the period which followed, in the use of brackets. The house reflects the kind of dignified propriety which had been achieved in this part of the country by the middle of the century, the kind of a house that is built to last and has done so.
Origin:	01/01/2005
Contributor(s):	Peddle, Juliet, 1899-1979
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/rose/id/815
Collection:	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Logan Library
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Copyright:	Copyright Undetermined
Subjects:	Architectural drawings Architecture Houses Markle family Architecture Domestic Life

Further information on this record can be found at its source.