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Sullivan County Poor Home

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Built
  
1896 (1896)-1897

NRHP Reference #
  
00000207

Architecture firm
  
Wing & Mahurin

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne, Romanesque

Area
  
1 ha

Added to NRHP
  
15 March 2000

Sullivan County Poor Home

Location
  
1447 Cty Rd. 75 N, east of Sullivan, Hamilton Township, Sullivan County, Indiana

Sullivan County Poor Home, also known as Lakeview Home, is a historic poorhouse located in Hamilton Township, Sullivan County, Indiana. It was designed by the noted architecture firm Wing & Mahurin and built in 1896-1897. It is a 2 1/2-story, asymmetrical, Romanesque Revival style brick building, consisting of a central section with flanking wings. It features a projecting central tower with arched openings and a pyramidal roof and an octagonal tower. Also on the property is a contributing one-story, two-room cottage. The home was named Lakeview Home in 1947, and remained in operation until 1998.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

References

Sullivan County Poor Home Wikipedia