Completed Projects

Several grants, including two from the National Park Service and one from Hometown Indiana Historic Preservation and Build Indiana, corporations, trade unions, and the community, have also provided monies for restoration work. Restoration projects completed to date are:

  • Reconstruct  the roof of the house and jail wing
  • Repair and tuck point the exterior brick  of the house and jail wing
  • Replace mansard slate roof on the residence
  • Repair  the cupolas and the skylights on the jail
  • Replace copper gutters of the jail
  • Reconstruct the wooden front  porch of the residence
  • Paint analysis of relevant surfaces of residence exterior and interior woodwork of the first floor
  • Reglaze residence
  • Reconstruct entry platform to the jail
  • Restored Jail Office
  • Restored Booking Area
  • Restored main jail stairwell
  • Restored second floor cellblock
  • Refinished the first floor rooms of the residence including walls, wood trim and flooring
  • Restoration of  two first floor bathrooms
  • Refinished house entrance vestibule, hall and main staircase
  • Restoration of mechanical heating hydronic system in residence, booking and kitchen of the jail first floor

Dining Room

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Plaster skim coat, a fresh coat of paint for the walls and ceilings and the floors refinished in 2011

Parlor

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The parlor just recently had the original french doors reattached