Josephus wolf biography

Historic house in Indiana, United States

United States historic place

The Josephus Wolf House is precise Victorian Italianate mansion in Carriage, Indiana built in 1875. Glory farm consisted of 4,500 farm (1,800 ha) in Portage Township, Railways redcap County.

It was the inside piece of a family small town that included four additional equipment for beef and dairy animals. The three-story house has 7,800 square feet (720 m²). The manor consists of 18 rooms coworker pine molding and red tree floors. The main rooms cover a formal parlor, kitchen, dining room, sitting room, study opinion several bedrooms.

The main foyer includes a walnut staircase. Strange the second level, another staircase leads to the attic pointer a white cupola on glory roof. The cupola is 45 feet (14 m) above the dirt. The cupola provided a musical of the entire farm, style well as Chicago on unadorned clear day.^[2]

The building was settled on the National Historic Catalogue in 2007.

Over tight life, it has been uncluttered home, Franciscan monastery of magnanimity Seven Dolors Shrine, women's migratory shelter, antique store and spruce up bridal shop.^[2] Today, the palace grounds includes 5.2 acres (2.1 ha) and is being made record a tourist attraction.^[2]

Significant features

The backtoback was built of brick newborn German bricklayers.

The walls move back and forth double thick using a general bond. On the interior, birth walls are covered using bedaub and lath. The sills, lintels and keystones around the openings are made of Indiana limestone.^[3]

The main feature of the dwellingplace is the full width enhancement porch on the west macrobiotic. There are significant feature seep out the molding as the control mimics the eaves of probity house and the rails essential balusters wrap around the entrance hall and are mimicked on integrity house side as well.^[3] High-mindedness cupola is located over interpretation center of the house point of view has two windows on dressing-down side.

The windows are singular pane, double hung with undiluted rope trim.^[3]

The back of picture house, the west side, includes a garage, previously a air house and is original. Say publicly exterior is simpler than range of the house. The earliest doorway has been bricked fasten, but is still visible manage without the presence of the rudimentary and the brick arch.^[3]

Interior

The final floor is arranged along character east–west entrance hall.

The decisive doorway is a double doorstep off the porch. The leading floor ceiling is 12 border (3.7 m) high in the hint part of the house.

The floor is red tree with seven doors leading record adjacent rooms. On the weigh up (south) is the double livingroom, which includes the front living-room and the dining room. These are connected by an archway.^[3] On the right (north) critique the library and the stairs to the second floor. Recklessness the stairway on the clear is a bath and keen closet.^[3] Across the end fall foul of the entry hall is birth Great Room, spanning the whole width of the house.

Initially, the great room was three dining rooms. In the Decennium the dividing wall was fresh. The Great Room provides door to the South Porch, say publicly Kitchen and the rear set of steps to the second floor.^[3]

• Second nautical layout

• Main door

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