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ARCHITECT house as a retirement art of its manmade Continued from Page 17 privately owned in- 3� P oa g ) P y home, ran a hardware environment. Unlike m stitution, represented o Though architecturally the County in the State and tinware store in any other town in St. , dwarfed by most of the Legislature for one town. Joseph County, New x homes in he proposed term, and ran a dry Also located outside Carlisle retains a major y historic district, the goods store. His home the proposed historic percentage of its early o 0 :::::• ' district, is the New residential and com- George W. Matthews built in 1870 atop a n home is historically im- small hill on the ;: Carlisle Cemetery. mercial buildings. r Organized in 1863, the These buildings include portant to New Carlisle eastern edge of town because it is one of the at 302 East Michigan is Cemetery Association home, business, and d exam- and purchased two acres of public and religious Cn oldest extant buildings an outstanding and believed to be the ple of the I alianate land west of town on structures which are Michigan Street from good examples of a kc f New Carlisle. 9 9 P r ho me o style in temporary o Y P Y - The varlet o f styles ss ann cn i Service. h - - k Jeremiah Se c Y Y P .. n two-story, brick tw t Colfax Vice The o 0 C la u ler o S ch , Y ( y trustees of the associa- ing a period of almost President of the United residence is par- States under Grant). ticularl noted for its tion soon decided that ninety years. y Constructed in 1835 by cupola, topped by a the cemetery should be The town is obvious- ly proud of its heritage William Pelham to Moorish dome. trot and managment of as exhibited by the an- house his dry goods Repeated on the cupola the Town of New Carli- nual celebration of store and home, it was are the large, double sle, and on August 13, Historical Days as well the first commercial brackets which support 1870 the deed officially as by the individual building in the town. the wide overhanging care taken with its The following year, eaves of the low- F` changed hands. There historical bui_Idin s Pelham sold the pitched, p are presently 5.37 9y hi roof. The most of which are ing business and the house double wood columns yY metery acres of ce plots, well maintained and the area farthest to George Matthews, and spindle balustrade still retain their y closest to U.S. who used it as a support the richly south, original character. general store and decorated porch which Theodore Borden home 20 marking the older To continue these ef- residence. Within a stretches across the at 702 West Michigan graves. The first per- forts, New Carlisle is year of his arrival, Mat- entire front of the Street. One of two im- son buried in the encouraged to adopt a thews was elected house and is topped by portant sites outside cemetery was Mrs. Ida historic district and Justice of the Peace a balcony. the proposed historic Treadwell who died in landmark ordinance. and appointed the first Five years late, district, the two-story the autumn of 1863. A The center of town, ex- Post Master of New Jeremiah's son George house was constructed monument was erected tending from the 400 Carlisle. Sharing commissioned an in 1868. The brick walls soon afterward by the block of West quarters with the Post Italiananate style brick are enhanced by brick Women's Relief Corps Michigan to the 300 Office, he, his wife and home to be constructed pilasters which frame commemorating those block of East Michigan his stepson, Schuyler at 130 West Michigan each bay and round- who participated in the as well as most of Colfax lived there until Street. Overhanging arched windows with Civil War. A second these blocks of Front 1841 when the family eaves are supported by elaborate hoods. The monument stands near and Chestnut Streets moved to South Bend alternating large and front entrance is a the front gate honorng is cohesive enough to where Matthews small paired brackets. double-leaf wood the unknown soldiers merit district status became County Cast iron hoods top panel door featuring a of World War 1 . There and buildings outside Auditor. both the doors and the leaded glass transom are several that area such as the Another influential windows. The first in floral patterns, mausoleums in the Theodore Borden family in New Carlisle story entrance portico Though the front porch cemetery and a House (702 West was the Service family. is supported by large was removed, a side caretaker's building. Michigan) and the Jeremiah Service was Tuscan columns and is porch with spindle col- Some of the more pro- Oren Tippy Residence born in New York state topped with a wood umns remains. Typify-if _ minent citizens of the (220 South Filbert) town buried there are could be designated as and moved to Indiana balustrade. ing the style are the T.L. Borden, Willam individual landmarks. ,�,r in 1834 at the age of 22. Another, well- projecting cornice line Cassady, Jeremiah and New Carlyle is rich with He operated Service preserved Italianate and paired brackets. George Service, Ran- architectural history and Sons Bank, a style residence is the Borden, who built the som Hubbard, and the and would be well Brummitt, Ivans and served to continue its Druliner families. preservation efforts in New Carlisle is unige order to have its future in that its architectural evolve from and be in- >, history is an integral tegrated with its past. a Blacksmith Shoppe a Restaurant 2 6 DEPOT STREET ROLLING PRAIRIE 778-2645 4h Breakfast Served All Day "Homemade Specials Daily" CARRY-OUTS AVAILABLE SENIOR CITIZENS FREE COFFEE WITH MEAL ti OPEN rt� g € k T' MONDAY - FRIDAY - 6:00 - 2:00 P.M. 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