Eagle-Pearson House
290 North Wabash StreetBuilt: c. 1870Style: ItalianateFrancis Eagle built this home for his family in the 1870s. Mr. Eagle was a prominent attorney and banker in Wabash for many years. Later, William Pearson used the home as an office for his medical practice.One of the finer examples of the Italianate style in Wabash, the design combines two rectilinear pavilions with hipped roofs. A three-sided pavilion projects from the northeast façade and adds visual interest. A similar, faceted pavilion projects from the south elevation. The quality of the design is indicated by the finely tooled limestone window hoods and the stone surround with architrave framing the entrance.
William Alber House
56 Walnut StreetBuilt: c. 1920Style: CraftsmanWilliam J. Alber and his family were the first occupants of this home. Mr. Alber was a bank cashier in Wabash.This Craftsman-style home exhibits a side-gabled roof with a gable dormer, decorative brackets and exposed roof rafters under the gables, and a full-width porch supported by rectangular columns. The base of the home is faced with brick while the upper portion is faced in stucco. Also interesting is the porte-cochère adjoining the porch, the limestone trim on the porch walls, and the stone retaining wall that defines the property's boundary.
Cowgill-DeHart House
86 Walnut StreetBuilt: c. 1875-80Style: ItalianateCarey and Nancy Cowgill occupied this home from 1911 until 1917. Mr.Cowgill, a Civil War veteran, was an attorney who served as the first president of the Cincinnati Wabash and Michigan Railroad. Mrs. Cowgill served as the first and only president of the Women's Library Association. She wrote to Andrew Carnegie and helped persuade him to finance construction of the Carnegie Public Library. During the 1970s, Paul DeHart and his wife Cleta owned the home.This structure is easily identified as Italianate with its hipped roof, projecting cornice, decorative brackets, and tall, narrow windows capped by decorative wooden hoods. The entry, enframed by Tuscan columns supporting an entablature and pediment, is an interesting element, along with the similarly detailed, enclosed porch adjoining the façade to the east. Both entry and porch were probably added after 1900.
Kunse-Pawling-Walter House
414 North Wabash StreetBuilt: 1846Style: I-house/FederalDavid Kunse, the owner of the first brickyard and the first cane mill in Wabash, was the original occupant of this home. Albert Pawling, the first Wabash town marshal, purchased the home in 1863. Later, the Walter family of B. Walter & Company owned the home.This house is an example of what is sometimes called an I-house and sometimes a Federal style residence. I-house characteristics include an oblong front section with a side gable roof and an adjoining "L" meeting the main house at a right angle to the rear. Federal details on the façade include a symmetrical arrangement of windows and entry, five bays, flat stone lintels, and side-lights and transom enframing the central entry. The small Greek Revival entry porch, with its square columns and pediment, was possibly added in the 1850s.
Wabash Street Methodist Episcopal Church
492 North Wabash StreetBuilt: 1903Style: Gothic RevivalThe Wabash Street Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in April 1899 after part of the congregation of the First Methodist (now the First United Methodist) Church opposed locating its new building on North Cass Street. The dissenters withdrew and organized a new congregation that built a "handsome and modern" building at Wabash and Stitt in 1903. The structure is now occupied by the Abundant Life Tabernacle.Gothic Revival elements of this structure include its castellated tower, pointed-arch windows, and irregular massing. The limestone structure also has numerous stained-glass windows with abstracted floral designs and stepped buttresses on each corner.
McNamee-Ford House
536 North Wabash StreetBuilt: 1901Style: Colonial RevivalHenry McNamee constructed this home while he was employed as an assistant cashier for the Wabash National Bank. He later went on to become treasurer and vice-president for Honeywell Specialty Manufacturing Company. In 1926, Edwin H. Ford, founder of the Ford Meter Box Company, purchased the home. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.The Colonial Revival style of the home is evident in its central projecting bay with a pedimented gable, columned portico topped by a balconette, and lunette window on the gable. Other noteworthy Colonial Revival features include the small, square attic windows on the north and south façades, and symmetrically positioned windows with wood surrounds and architrave heads. The enframement of the entrance with leaded-glass side-lights and fanlight transom is especially finely detailed.
Dr. J. T. & Ethel Steffen
555 North Wabash StreetBuilt: c. 1950Style: LustronDr. J. T. and Ethel Steffen purchased this home from Fine Homes Inc. in 1954. They resided there for two years before selling to Pearl Wright who remained there until 1971.This Lustron home is one of approximately 2,500 prefabricated homes built by the Lustron Homes Corporation, a subsidiary of Chicago Vitreous Enamel Products Company. Between 1948 and 1950, these unusual, all-steel, structures were manufactured in Columbus, Ohio. The homes were then shipped in 3,000 pieces and assembled on-site. Lustron homes were differentiated very little from one another; this home, a Westchester two-bedroom model, is a pale yellow color.
Wilson-Evans-Collinge House
560 North Wabash StreetBuilt: c. 1900Style: ShingleFrank P. Wilson originally owned this home. Mr. Wilson served Wabash as an insurance salesman.The flat, wooden shingles siding the house classify this structure as a late example of the Shingle Style. The two dominant features of the house are the two-story rounded turret at the northeast corner with pyramidal roof and the expansive Arts and Crafts-style porch and porte-cochère that adjoins the southern part of the façade. The porch was probably added in the early 20th century.
Spiker-Duffey House
570 North Wabash StreetBuilt: c. 1903Style: Queen AnneWarren Spiker and his wife Rose built this house but lived there only a few years. However, Ike and Grace Duffey resided in the home for over twenty-five years, beginning in 1932. Mr. Duffey owned I. Duffey and Son Co. Stock Yards in Largo, Indiana, and the Anderson Packers professional basketball team in Anderson, Indiana from 1946 to 1950. He also became the president of the Central Indiana Railroad in 1951. Mrs. Duffey was a founding member of the Wabash Art Appreciation Class in 1959 and was a charter member of the Wabash Unit of the Indiana State Symphony Society.This prominent home is a late example of the Queen Anne style. The wooden shingles in the gables, large veranda with Free Classic supporting columns, and asymmetrical plan are all characteristic of the style. Special features of note include the large window resembling an over-sized lunette or a thermal window above the entry and the eyebrow window on the south side of the roof.
Clark-Worth House
578 North Wabash StreetBuilt: 1910Style: Late Queen AnneHarry and Anna Clark were te original owners of this home. Mr. Clark, along with his brother Charles, established Clark Grocery on South Wabash Street, which was a Wabash institution until 1942. The Clarks' only daughter, Elizabeth, married B. V. Worth, and together they owned and resided in the home until 1957.Queen Anne elements include the irregular massing, the shingled, dominant, front-facing gable, and the recessed porch on the second story. Other interesting Queen Anne features include the three small, square windows in the gable of the front façade, the spindlework on the second-story porch, and the dentils and decorative braces between each level of the home. The stone veneer on the first story is a post-World War II addition.
Honeywell House
720 North Wabash StreetBuilt: 1960Style: Georgian/Classical RevivalThe first owner, Isaac Beitman, moved this home to its current site in approxiamately 1922. In 1960, Mark and Eugenia Honeywell purchased the property and made many alterations to the 1880s structure, such as the addition of brick to the exterior. Mr. Honeywell founded the Honeywell Heating Specialty Company in 1902, which grew through mergers into Honeywell International. He remained devoted to his hometown and was known for his gift of the Honeywell Community Center and other philanthropic activities.The Honeywell House exhibits a mix of Georgian and Classical elements. Georgian elements include the central pavilion with symmetrical features and brick quoins; Classical features include the balustrade and the columned stone entry portico.
Glenn & Marie Bowman House
585 North Miami StreetBuilt: 1940Style: Colonial WilliamsburgGlenn A. and Marie Bowman built this home and continued to live there into the 1960s. Mr. Bowman worked as a salesman for Honeywell Regulator Company and later for Robertshaw, Inc., makers of range controls. Mrs. Bowman was the special gifts chairman and membership director of the Wabash Unit of the Indiana State Symphony Society for approximately thirty-five years.The style of this home is an interpretation of modest vernacular houses in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, which was restored and opened to the public in the early 1930s. Its steeply pitched, side-gabled main roof, dormer windows with gable roofs, and nearly symmetrical façade are all features of the Williamsburg style.
Wabash High School
580 North Miami StreetBuilt: 1926Style: Collegiate Gothic/Art DecoConstruction of the current Wabash High School building began in 1925. J. Edwin Kopf and Woolling of Indianapolis designed the structure, and E.A. Carson of Logansport served as contractor. Local high school boys helped with the excavation process.The original building contained eighteen classrooms and a gymnasium that seated 650. Additions in 1961, 1966, 1971, and 1976 provided additional spaces for the increasing school population. The design is a mixture of the Collegiate Gothic and Art Deco styles. Collegiate Gothic elements include the central tower with buttresses, entry pavilion with battlements, and stylized buttresses along the wings. Art Deco is found in the geometric way many of the pieces of the building work together.
Cyril & Ruth Clupper House
541 North Miami StreetBuilt: c. 1910Style: English VernacularCyril and Ruth Clupper occupied this home from 1937 until 1998. Mr. Clupper was a salesman at John Richards, and Mrs. Clupper served as President of the Wabash Art Guild in 1976. this house is currently owned by the Charley Creek Foundation and backs onto the Charley Creek Gardens.This English Vernacular structure is unusual in Wabash. Features that exhibit the style are the jerkinhead gables on the façade and the wings to the rear, shed dormers on the slopes of the roof to the north and south, and patterned wood shingles under the eaves. This house design may well have been selected from a pattern book or catalog.
Blayney House
102 Stitt StreetBuilt: 1910Style: Vernacular CottageThis home was occupied by sisters Cornelia Blayney and Grace (Blayney) Olive from 1925 to 1965. Miss Blayney taught in the Wabash City High School from 1907 to 1946, and Mrs. Olive was the principal in the Wabash City Elementary School from 1897 to 1913.This home is an unusual example of a vernacular cottage. The simple window and door surrounds and lack of ornamentation are both typical elements of a working-class home in Wabash. However, the central pyramidal roof line and diagonally placed portico with pediment are quite interesting. The exterior treatment of the structure has recently been updated, but the limestone block foundation and asymmetrical massing are original.
Ross-Ford-Aubertin House
437 North Miami StreetBuilt: c. 1875One of the earliest owners of the home was Margaret M. Ross. Edwin H. Ford, founder of the Ford Meter Box Company, resided in the home from 1913 to 1926. O. J. and Minnie Aubertin occupied the home from 1926 to 1978. Mr. Aubertin was a salesman for the Marshall Fields department store in Chicago, a fourth-degree Knight of Columbus, and a fifty-year member of the Elks Lodge.The Italianate style of this home is seen in its hipped roof, projecting box cornice, decorative brackets, rectangular shape, and tall, narrow windows. Another prominent feature is the three-sided projecting bay on the façade which was cut away on the first story in the early 20th century and replaced with the current Craftsman-style entry.
Yarnelle House
297 North Miami StreetBuilt: c. 1925Style: German/Swiss VernacularThis home has been owned by the Yarnelle family since 1928 when George William Yarnelle purchased the home from Eliza Pressler, the original owner. Mr. Yarnelle was the president of Nonotuck Oil and Gas Company of Wabash. He and his brother Kenneth, who also later owned the home, were both members of the 1916 Wabash Athletic Association's football team, which won renown in amateur independent sports circles of the Midwest. Mrs. Kenneth Yarnelle was an active member of Round Table, the first literary club in Wabash and the fourth in the state.Based on the vernacular architecture of the German and Swiss Alps, this home is completely clad in wooden shingles. The small, one-story structure exhibits a cross-gabled roof supported by triangular knee braces. The shed roof covering the front stoop is also supported by triangular knee braces.
Wallace-Jordan House
260 Cass StreetBuilt: 1910Style: CraftsmanWilliam Wallace and his wife Amanda built this home. Mr. Wallace came to Wabash in 1845 and was a member of the Christian Church. Mrs. Wallace served on the Ladies' Relief Corps and was a member of the Order of Ben Hur. In 1919, Dr. Minnetta Flynn Jordan, one of the first female doctors in Wabash, purchased the home. She practiced medicine in Wabash for 30 years.A fine example of the Craftsman style, this simply-detailed home has a wood shingled exterior, a cross-gabled roof, and a secondary roof that both shelters the entry porch and creates a porte-cochère over the drive. A stepped-brick chimney at the center of the main façade adds visual interest.
John Milliner House
228 Cass StreetBuilt: c. 1890Style: Queen AnneJohn Milliner and his family built this home around 1890. Mr. Milliner, born in 1849, moved to Wabash in 1864. He then moved away to obtain an education in law and returned to Wabash in 1886 to establish his own law firm.One of Wabash's most complete Queen Anne residences, this home consists of a corner turret with fish scale shingles, unusual gable roofs with recessed panels below the gable peaks, and a one-story wrap-around veranda along the east and south façades. Other features include its asymmetrical plan, clapboard siding, and tall windows.
Carr-Durnbaugh House
204 Cass StreetBuilt: 1857Style: Victorian Cottage/FederalThe original owners of this home are unknown, but Hugh and Martha Carr owned the home and rented it out from the early 1910s until 1939. The Carrs sold the home to their son-in-law and daughter, Merle and Carrie Durnbaugh. Mr. Durnbaugh was the manager of Durnbaugh Hardware Co. located at 52 West Canal Street.This home's L-shaped plan, gabled roof, and modest size make it a typical example of the Victorian Cottage style. However, the flat lintels over the windows are vernacular features often associated with the Federal style. One of the oldest homes in Wabash, this structure has recently undergone a major restoration.
