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1. Rating 2. County 3. Survey No. Outstanding ❑ Notable ❑Contributing St. Joseph 141-450-64003 4. Historic Name 5. Township Preliminary No. Jeremiah Service House Olive 6. Address 7. City 8. Quad Name 302 E. Michigan Street New Carlisle New Carlisle INDIANA HISTORIC SITES AtM STRI ICTU ORY State of Indiana Department of Natural Resources State Form 16822/Revised 1987 10. Visible 11. Endangered Explain The Old Republic ®Yes ❑NO ❑Yes ❑NO The house is in a decaying state and must be restored* 12. Ownership Owner's Address(if different) ❑ Public ❑Private 13. Use Present Past 14. Category 15. Surveys/ Legal Protections 16. Location Notes/Legal Description 17. Condition 18. Integrity Residence X1 ® Listed on Natioanal Register. ®building ❑ Excellent M Unaltered Commercial ❑ ❑ ❑district ❑Good ❑Altered ❑site ❑Fair ❑Moved ❑structure ❑Deteriorated ❑ ❑ ❑object Date Moved ❑Ruins 19. Time Period(s) 20. Style(s) 21. Architect/Builder c. 1850 Italianate 22. SPECIFY ALTERATIONS Removals Replacement Additions Other I 23. DESCRIPTION 24. SITE PLAN Stories Two -vb-- - a I Plan Square with rear additions N ,�• IV it Foundation Local granite Walls BRICK Common Bond > Roof Low hipped i Porches ° �-` ront, open with ornate scroll work and brackets; side, with square columns and wide lintel t Openings Most windows are long, 6/over/6. The main door has sidelights and transoms`"` Interior Grounds/Outbuildings There are two, small brick out buildings which remain, sans roofs, and a modern pole barn. Utner tarm buildings may be obscured. 25. No. of Contributing I BUI �J OBJ 26. No. of Non-contributing BUI J OBJ On a high hill overlooking the roadway Resources STR Resources STR 1 TOTAL TOTAL SIT SIT 27. Environment 28. Areas of Significance: 29. Historic Context(s)/Statement of Significance/Additional Description: (_I AGRICULTURE "Restoration is planned and hopefully will progress soon. ®ARCHITECTURE **The windows and main door all have stone heads and sills. The lid of the door and front windows on the ground ❑ARCHAEOLOGY: floor are unitied in a belt course. The ornate decoration on the tront porch includes double octangonal columns, ❑ART wide projecting lintel and overiszed scrolled brackets as well as elliptical , scalloped scrollwork which expresses the ❑COMMERCE eMlddub UCIwCCI1 11le UUJVIC WIUIIIIIJ. G1IIe1 UeIdIID 11II:IUUe d IIIUUK ,UIbul l�Ule II i.IIC IIICLC Uf lI le pult';I luvi. ❑COMMUNICATIONS The upper part of the building is enhanced by oversized, scrolled brackets, in doubles which support the cornice and lecorative-melding cr W,,- �t:ec�,c I . ❑COMMUNITY PLANNING & DEVELOP The is square cupola or lantern on the roof, with round arched windows, a projecting cornice with scrolled ❑CONSERVATION --brackets-and-an-unusual,Tub ,_onion-shaped dome atop ❑ECONOMICS The house was built for one of the most prominent families in New Carlisle. J. Service was born November 15, 1812 ❑EDUCATION in Herkimer County. New York and reportedINt traveled west to the vicinity of New Carlisle in 1838. ❑ENGINEERING ❑ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATION He made bricks, and taught school while acquiring land in the area. In 1847 he married Sarah Ann Flanegin, an ❑ETHNIC HERITAGE: Ohio native who had traveled to this area and settled with her family to Hamilton, where her parents operated a ❑EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT stage coach stop on the Chicago Road. Sarah and Jeremiah had six children, four of which lived to adulthood. ❑HEALTH/MEDICINE Jeremiah ran a dry goods store in New Carlisle and later a bank, which he operated with his son George. Jeremiah ❑ INDUSTRY servea one term in the inaiana State Legislature in i u52 ana naa been postmaster ana was a justice of the peace. ❑INVENTION Jeremiah died in 1898, the year the Service Bank burned. Sarah lived in the house until 1901, when the house ❑LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE "+.o Several otherowners-pvooc;000J--the-properly vvI i.; vvcA,, Nu, aaoJin 1998 by Historic Ne ia,li5lu. ❑LAW ❑ LITERATURE 30. FOR STATE OFFICE USE ONLY ❑MARITIME HISTORY ❑MILITARY ❑ NR PERFORMING ARTS ❑PHILOSOPHY SR ❑ POLITICS/GOVERNMENT ❑ RELIGION E ❑SCIENCE NE ❑SOCIAL HISTORY ❑TRANSPORTATION 31. UTM ❑VERNACULAR/CONSTRUCTION 116 f 5�11pq 1 JJ4)7pg1 I 1 LJUIHER 32. Information Sources Local Newspaper article, attached, Historic New Carlisle, Incorporated, offices on Michigan Street in downtown New Carlisle 33. Surveyor Affiliation WGI Date C. B Fife 8/26l99 34. Revised by Affiliation Date 35. Revised by Affiliation Date