Daniel Barbour House

Description:	Drawing of the Daniel Barbour House by Juliet A. Peddle, Terre Haute Artist and Architect. Picture of the Old Daniel Barbour Home. Drawing by Juliet A. Peddle, Terre Haute Artist and Architect.The house of Daniel Barbour in Fayette Township across the river stands at the junction of the road from Clinton and the one from New Goshen in a very effective setting up on a hill.Daniel Barbour came west from New York State in 1817 and settled in Fayette Township in 1818 on the farm where he spent the remainder of his life. I presume he built a log cabin first, as the house which is now standing was not built until 1826 according to a copper plate which was on the exterior of the house until recent years.Mr. Barbour was a man of great energy and vitality and lived a long and vigorous life of 94 years. He had large holdings of land which he farmed. The market was not at ones doorstep in those days and he also packed and shipped pork, corn and hay. He packed his pork down on the river at Tecumseh. His son, Daniel, followed him on the farm. This son died some years ago but his Widow and son, Corey B. Barbour, still live here and operate the farm.The house is large as suited a man with a family of eight children, but is not elaborate or pretentious in design. It has the basic colonial plan with a center stair hall and rooms at the sides and has a very wide porch all across the back and a rather large ell built on the right side which, I am told, was a later addition. The most interesting feature is the entrance which has an elliptical fan light which was originally divided into radial panes but is now only a single piece of glass. The sidelights, instead of being fixed as most of them are, are made like double hung windows. All the windows originally had small divisions, Mr. Corey Barbour tells me, six lights in the lower sash and nine above, but the windows have all been replaced in the main portion of the house and the small panes are left only in the ell. The house originally had shutters all around but they were removed when the windows were changed, and it has remained without them since that time.Though time has left its mark on the house, it remains an interesting monument to its builder - the first Daniel Barbour.
Origin:	01/01/2005
Contributor(s):	Peddle, Juliet, 1899-1979
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/rose/id/827
Collection:	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Logan Library
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Copyright:	Copyright Undetermined
Subjects:	Architectural drawings Architecture Houses Barbour, Daniel Architecture Domestic Life

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