Historical Images of Porter County

Residence, John W. Brummitt
Valparaiso, Indiana

Date: 1906
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark:  This house still stands [2020] at the SW¼ of SW¼ of SE¼ of Section 10 in Center Township, northeast of the intersection of present day Froberg Road and Vale Park Road. This photograph is facing southeast.

Constructed for the Prentiss family by builder Daniel Dillingham in 1873 based on Valparaiso's Henry Lemster's architectural plans, this house was used as the main house of Prentiss' farming enterprise. The house was successfully purchased by John W. Brummitt, George Henderlong, Wilford Sievers, Dean Froberg, and Anthony Robertson.

Sievers had converted the house into two apartments in the 1940s, but upon the purchase by Robertson the house back to its original status.

The house consists of eleven rooms and was built to include closets. Ceilings are ten feet in height, floors are 5/8" red oak, and the exterior walls were built three feet thick with air spaces to serve as insulation. Heat was provided by a kitchen stove and a wood burning stove located in the parlor. The second floor was heated heating rising from the first floor to the second floor through a floor grate.

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Image and related text prepared by Steven R. Shook