Wendell Lewis Willkie House
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 Wendell Lewis Willkie House (2010) |
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| location | Rushville , Rush County , Indiana | ||
| Coordinates | 39 ° 36 '46 " N , 85 ° 26' 53" W | ||
| Built | around 1874 | ||
| Architectural style | Italianate style | ||
| NRHP number | 93001415 | ||
| The NRHP added | December 27, 1993 | ||
The Wendell Lewis Willkie House , also known as the Cullen-Mauzy-Willkie House , is a historically significant residential home in Rushville , Rush County , Indiana . It was the home of the Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie from 1940-44 and has been a listed building on the National Register of Historic Places since 1993 .
architecture
The two and a half story Wendell Lewis Willkie House was built around 1874 for the magistrate William A. Cullen. Brick was used as the building material for the house , while the foundation is limestone . The Wendell Lewis Willkie House has a hipped roof with slate roofing . Most of the architectural details are in the Italianate style . The front of the house is L-shaped, with the protruding part of the building one yoke wide and the remaining two. In the corner of the L there is a veranda with a hipped roof dating from the 1900s . This is supported by wooden columns of Tuscan order , which stand on stone plinths . The rafters of the porch is decorated with a simple tooth frieze . A gable triangle adorns the entrance to the veranda . The wooden main cornice under the roof is richly decorated and features, among other things, brackets in a volute-like shape, blind windows with segmental arches and rosettes . Contrary to what the asymmetrical external appearance suggests, the interior design of the Wendell Lewis Willkie House follows conventional Italianate construction plans. Two lounges and the dining room lead off from a central entrance hall, which also functions as a staircase. There is also a connection to the rear part of the building, in which the kitchen, bathroom and utility room are located. The first floor has four bedrooms and a bathroom.
history
After Cullen's death, the house was owned by Rush Budd, who ran a saloon in Rushville. In 1924 the Mauzy family became the new owners of Wendell Lewis Willkie House and the largely identical neighboring house. The Mauzys had grocery and general stores in Rushville since the 1860s. Charles Mauzy eventually sold the house to Willkie. At the height of his political career as a Republican candidate for the 1940 presidential election in the United States , Willkie moved into the house in the summer of that election year and lived there until his death four years later. His work One World , which he had designed in New York City after a political trip around the world that he had undertaken on behalf of Franklin D. Roosevelt , he revised and corrected in the Wendell Lewis Willkie House . After his death the house remained in family ownership.
In 1984 the book store was added to the property . This one and a half story timber frame building corresponds to the Italianate style of the Wendell Lewis Willkie House and is used to store Willkie's memorabilia. On December 27, 1993, the Wendell Lewis Willkie House was entered on the National Register of Historic Places.
Individual evidence
- ^ William F. Gulde: Wendell Lewis Willkie House: Registration Form . In: National Register of Historic Places database . National Park Service , October 19, 1992, accessed August 24, 2017 (English, 354 KB), p. 12.
- ^ William F. Gulde: Wendell Lewis Willkie House: Registration Form . In: National Register of Historic Places database . National Park Service , October 19, 1992, accessed August 24, 2017 (English, 354 KB), pp. 5–7.
- ^ William F. Gulde: Wendell Lewis Willkie House: Registration Form . In: National Register of Historic Places database . National Park Service , October 19, 1992, accessed August 24, 2017 (English, 354 KB), pp. 12, 13.
- ^ William F. Gulde: Wendell Lewis Willkie House: Registration Form . In: National Register of Historic Places database . National Park Service , October 19, 1992, accessed August 24, 2017 (English, 354 KB), p. 8.
- ^ William F. Gulde: Wendell Lewis Willkie House: Registration Form . In: National Register of Historic Places database . National Park Service , October 19, 1992, accessed August 24, 2017 (English, 354 KB), p. 11.
- ^ William F. Gulde: Wendell Lewis Willkie House: Registration Form . In: National Register of Historic Places database . National Park Service , October 19, 1992, accessed August 24, 2017 (English, 354 KB), p. 13.
- ^ William F. Gulde: Wendell Lewis Willkie House: Registration Form . In: National Register of Historic Places database . National Park Service , October 19, 1992, accessed August 24, 2017 (English, 354 KB), p. 5.
- ^ Willkie, Wendell Lewis, House on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 20, 2017.