Description: |
Drawing of the Chauncey Rose Home by Juliet A. Peddle, Terre Haute Architect and Artist. Chauncey Rose Home which stood on present site of the Laboratory School. Drawn by Juliet B. Peddle, Terre Haute artist and architect.The house which Chauncey Rose built and lived in during the later years of his life was located on the site now occupied by the Laboratory School of the Indiana State Teachers College. Many will remember it as the Hemingway House, which it was called after it became the home of his niece, Miss Susan Hemingway. Mr. Rose's connection with the city and its development are pretty well known, but it may be of interest to mention that he came here first in 1817 and then went up to Parke county where he stayed until 1825. In that year he returned to Terre Haute and stayed here the remainder of his life.During the years in which he made Terre Haute his home, he was very active in promoting the development of the town and establishing educational and philanthropic institutions. Among his business ventures he built the Prairie House on the corner of Seventh and Wabash, which continues at the same location today but is called the Terre Haute House. Certain early notices refer to the hotel as under construction in 1837. In 1841 it was closed and the furnishings were in storage for eight years. After it opened the second time it never again closed its doors except during alterations or rebuilding.I mention this as it bears on the only reference I have been able to find concerning the construction date of his home. A remark in an early account of his life states that he lived for a while at the Prairie House and he left the hotel to go to his own home at Seventh and Chestnut where he lived the rest of his life. I am sure this was before 1854 as the house is located and named on the map made in 1854. I strongly suspect that he left the Prairie House in 1841 when it was closed because the lines of his house seem more in keeping with the work being done in the early forties than that done in the early fifties.After Mr. Rose had lived here some years he built a handsome house across Seventh Street, as he said he felt he owed it to Terre Haute to build a really good house. However, after it was completed, he did not want to leave his old home and continued to live there until his death in 1877. The other house was the home of W. P. IJams for many years and is today remodeled to accommodate an auto service station.After Mr. Rose's death the house went to his niece, Miss Susan Hemingway. At her death in 1909 it was left to the Rose Polytechnic. In the course of time the house was removed and the site became a city park. This site was later purchased by the Indiana State Teachers College and the present Laboratory School erected upon it.Mr. Rose's home was never a house intended to impress the town. But it was substantial and dignified and well designed in an unostentatious manner in keeping with his sterling qualities and quiet tastes. Set as it was in a grassy orchard it had much of the atmosphere of a New England farmhouse.The east wing opening off of the parlor contained Mr. Rose's bedroom and library. This library was interesting both for the books it contained and for the many interesting and important conferences that were held there which affected the growth and development of the community.The photograph from which the above sketch was made is dated 1880 from which I assume that the altered form of the house which many of us remember in the Hemingway House, was brought about by changes made by his niece after Mr. Rose's death. It is only recently that I have become aware that the Hemingway Houses as it stood at the time of its demolition was not the Rose House in its original form, and have been pleased to find that the original house had simpler and to me more pleasing lines. |
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Origin: | 01/01/2005 |
Contributor(s): |
Peddle, Juliet, 1899-1979 |
Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/rose/id/862 |
Collection: |
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Logan Library |
Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/ |
Copyright: |
Copyright Undetermined |
Subjects: |
Architectural drawings Architecture Houses Rose, Chauncey, 1794-1877 Architecture Domestic Life |
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