Theodore Hulman House

Description:	Drawing of the Theodore Hulman Home at Sixth and Park Streets by Juliet A. Peddle, Terre Haute Artist and Architect. Theodore Hulman Home, Sixth and Park Streets, Built in About 1854. Drawing by Juliet A. Peddle, Terre Artist and Architect.The Hulman House at 824 South Sixth Street is one of the few interesting older houses of Terre Haute which have been well cared for and continue to serve as the homes of the families whose names have become identified with them.Family tradition says the house has stood in its present location since about 1865 or 1866 when Mr. Theodore Hulman came back from the war and wanted to establish his family in their own home. He owned the whole square block where the house now stands and planned to build a stone house in the center of the lot, but that promised to be a slow process so he used part of a house which was already built as the nucleus of a new house and made such additions as he felt his family required, to produce a place to house them comfortably while the stone house was being built.As it turned out the stone house was never built. The house he used for their immediate home was one which had been standing approximately on the present site of the physicians and surgeons clinic. Mr. William J. Ball owned this house for a number of years and it is marked as the Ball house on the map of 1854. It seems to have been built, however, by Erastus Flint some time shortly before 1846.An indenture between Erastus Flint and wife and E. C. Biddle dated 1846 describes the house thus: On the aforesaid premises is now erected a new and substantial dwelling house, twenty-four feet wide, thirty-four feet deep, two stories high, with addition of one story building twenty-eight feet deep and twenty-four feet wide. In front the building has two parlors connected with folding doors and a hall seven feet wide, the whole length leading from the front door on (to) the piazza of the rear building which contains also a dining room, kitchen, pantry, etc., with good cellar under whole. Outside Venetian blinds are attached to every window in said house.This description tallies with the size and arrangement of the front portion of the present Hulman house and bears out the tradition that this part, and only this part, was from the house at Sixth and Poplar streets, and the rest was added by Mr. Hulman. I was surprised to read of Venetian blinds outside of the windows, but Miss Hulman tells me that her father always referred to the front windows as Venetian windows and called what most of us today call shutters, Venetian blinds, so perhaps the house was really equipped with shutters after all instead of the Venetian blinds of today.The records show that Mr. William J. Ball became the owner of the property in 1848 and sold it in 1856 to George brokaw. Since being moved to the new site, this house has never changed hands and is still occupied by the family of Mr. Theodore Hulman who came to Vigo county around 1850 and long identified himself with business affairs in the community. The home is still occupied by Misses Anna and Gertrude Hulman and Theodore Hulman, Jr., daughters and son of the original owner.In addition to its other points of interest it has certain qualities that only time and care can give a house, it has struck roots and become a part of its site with the result that the house and its setting are harmonious and complete.
Origin:	01/01/2005
Contributor(s):	Peddle, Juliet, 1899-1979
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/rose/id/828
Collection:	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Logan Library
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Copyright:	Copyright Undetermined
Subjects:	Architectural drawings Architecture Houses Hulman, Theodore Architecture Domestic Life

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