James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home

	James Whitcomb Riley House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark
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Location	Indianapolis, Indiana
Coordinates	39°46′19″N 86°8′52″W / 39.77194°N 86.14778°WCoordinates: 39°46′19″N 86°8′52″W / 39.77194°N 86.14778°W
Built	1872
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Late Victorian
NRHP reference #	66000799
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966
Designated NHL	December 29, 1962

The James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home, one of two homes known as the James Whitcomb Riley House on the National Register of Historic Places, is a historic building in the Lockerbie Square Historic District of Indianapolis, Indiana at 528 Lockerbie Street. It was named a National Historic Landmark in 1962.^[2]^[3]

History[edit]

An Indianapolis baker, John R. Nickum, had the building built in 1872. Nickum had the money to build the house as he had supplied the Union Army in Indianapolis with hardtack, a form of cracker despised by soldiers, during the Civil War. Nickum's daughter, Magdalena, and her husband Charles Holstein, a lawyer, would possess it when, in 1893, they invited noted poet James Whitcomb Riley to live with them. Riley had a bedroom on the second floor in this building for 23 years, helping the Holsteins with expenses.^[4]^[5]

After Riley and the Holsteins died, William Fortune bought it in 1916. He would later, presumably at the behest of Booth Tarkington, transfer ownership to the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association five years later. Due to so little time having passed from Riley's death to its preservation, most of the items of the household items of Riley's day, except for the kitchen, remain within the domicile.^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]

Due to Riley's fame, it is the best known of the domiciles in the Lockerbie Square Historic District. The Riley Children's Foundation operates the museum. Noted items are the wicker chair which he frequently used after his stroke in 1911, and the bed on which he died on July 22, 1916.^[11]^[12]

Structure notes[edit]

The structure is a two-story brick house on a stone foundation and full basement that is considered an excellent example of Italianate architecture typical of the neighborhood's homes built in the 1860s and 1870s. Slate shingles cover a roof which has wide overhanging eaves and decorated brackets, and is low-pitched hipped. Other features of the house are a central tower with oval-glazed paired doors, and masonry crowns atop tall narrow windows and inverted U-shaped windows on the highest floor. Water pumps took water from the well to tanks within the attic that could supply water to different rooms in the house. The interior woodwork is all hand-carved solid hardwoods. The lighting was originally fueled by gas, but is now powered by electricity. Speaking tubes were installed so that the staff could receive orders in the kitchen from other parts of the house.^[3]^[9]

Gallery[edit]

James Whitcomb Riley House in 1975
Marker denoting the home's NHL status
Rear of the House
The bust by Myra Reynolds Richards 1916)

References[edit]

^ National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "James Whitcomb Riley House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2009-01-14. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Joseph S. Mendinghall (August 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: James Whitcomb Riley House / Charles L. Holstein House" (pdf). National Park Service. and Accompanying 3 photos, exterior, from 1975 (790 KB)
^ Conn, Earl L. My Indiana:101 Places to See (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2006). pg.88, 89
^ Bodenhamer, David. The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis (Indiana University Press, 1994) pg.839
^ http://www.lockerbiesquare.org/pdf/walkingtour.pdf
^ Lockerbie Square People's Club
^ Conn 88, 89
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Bodenhamer 839
^ Lockerbie Square Historic District-Indianapolis: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary
^ Bodenhamer pg.839
^ Conn pg.88, 89

External links[edit]

James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home - Riley Children's Foundation
Lockerbie Square
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. IN-51, "James Whitcomb Riley House, 528 Lockerbie Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN", 18 photos, 8 measured drawings, 15 data pages, 1 photo caption page, supplemental material

[nris-1] National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.

[nhlsum-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "James Whitcomb Riley House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2009-01-14. Retrieved 2008-02-06.

[nrhpinv2-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Joseph S. Mendinghall (August 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: James Whitcomb Riley House / Charles L. Holstein House" (pdf). National Park Service. and Accompanying 3 photos, exterior, from 1975 (790 KB)

[4] Conn, Earl L. My Indiana:101 Places to See (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2006). pg.88, 89

[5] Bodenhamer, David. The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis (Indiana University Press, 1994) pg.839

[6] ttp://www.lockerbiesquare.org/pdf/walkingtour.pdf

[7] Lockerbie Square People's Club

[8] Conn 88, 89

[autogenerated1-9] Jump up to: ^a ^b Bodenhamer 839

[10] Lockerbie Square Historic District-Indianapolis: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary

[11] Bodenhamer pg.839

[12] Conn pg.88, 89

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