Paddock House

Description:	Drawing of the Paddock House WHICH STOOD NEAR NINETEENTH AND POPLAR STREETS by Juliet A. Peddle, Terre Haute Artist and Architect. THE PADDOCK HOME, WHICH STOOD NEAR NINETEENTH AND POPLAR STREETS. Drawing by Juliet A. Peddle, Terre Haute Artist and Architect.The PADDOCK HOUSE was located on the south side of the old Bloomington road, now Poplar Street, just west of the intersection with Nineteenth Street.Family tradition says that this house was built by William Paddock in the middle fifties. The records snow that Benjamin Fuller bought the lot in 1851 from Nathaniel Preston, who subdivided the plot and that Mr. Fuller sold it to William Paddock in 1855. If I am correct about the house being built by Mr. Paddock, it would seem reasonable to suppose that it was constructed around 1856 or 1857 as tradition says it was.William Paddock was the son of Ebenezer Paddock who came to this locality about 1818 or 1819 from Clark County, Ohio. William was born in Ohio and was brought here as a small child. Ebenezer was active in the community life in Vigo County in the early twenties when he is mentioned in one of the early histories as a county commissioner. The family seems to have lived in the country for at least a part of these early years.When William started out for himself in life, he was first interested in pork and grain, from 1851 to 1865, but later switched to milling. In 1865 he was associated with Samuel McKeen in the milling business and continued until 1874 when he started the firm of William Paddock & Co. which organization later was known as the St. Louis Mills. These mills were located at Fifth street and the Vandalia Railroad where the Terre Haute Pure Milk Company is now located.Mr. Paddock sold the above house in 1880 and must have moved to the Voorhees House at that time as he purchased it in 1879.After Mr. Paddock sold the house to George Arbuckle, it changed hands three more times before it was sold to John D. Pugh in 1883. Various members of the Pugh family owned the house until 1907 when Horace Pugh sold it to John Burget.About 1932 the property was purchased by the Catholic Church, the house to serve as St. Patricks convent, and the ground serving as part of the school grounds. I do not know exactly when the old house was moved to its present location, but it now stands at the northeast corner of Eighteenth and Oak streets. The address is 462 South Eighteenth Street, though the entrance is properly on the east side. When the house was moved it was veneered with brick and otherwise altered so that it is not readily recognizable today as the house illustrated above.The Atlas of 1874 shows the house set well back from the road with a fence around the two corner frontages. The above illustration was made from a photograph taken when Mr. Charles Paddock was a boy and lived there. The fence is not apparent in the photograph but the photographer may have stood inside the fence, in which case it would not show.The style of the house is in keeping with what was being done in the fifties, which bears out the tradition of the construction date. The Paddock house was not far from the Davis house mentioned earlier in this series and was another of the interesting country homes which were located along the old Bloomington road in early days.
Origin:	01/01/2005
Contributor(s):	Peddle, Juliet, 1899-1979
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/rose/id/855
Collection:	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Logan Library
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Copyright:	Copyright Undetermined
Subjects:	Architectural drawings Architecture Houses Convents Paddock, William, b.1810? Architecture Domestic Life Religion

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