323 N. Columbia House

The house at 323 N. Columbia a beautifully restored and remarkable example of Queen Anne style with Italianate detailing.  

The street (eastern) façade shouts the irregularity of floorplan and silhouette as well as the wrap around porch with attached gazebo that reflect the Queen Anne style. The central structure rises to a second story with three tall, narrow rectangular windows evenly placed beneath a centered gable roof. The recessed entrance, off-center to the main structure, is approached by two flights of stone steps and framed by a covered entryway.  Italianate detailing includes wide, projecting cornices with brackets on both the first and second stories, full entablature all along the porch roof, Tuscan columns supporting the porch roof and framing the entryway and the gable pediment crowning the entryway. 

The southern façade is also intriguing. At the eastward end of the porch we encounter a small projecting wing with (three?) sides rising the full two stories capped with its own centered gabled roof which matches the front façade. The first story of this wing is fronted with a (bay, oriel?) window yet another signature of Victorian style. On the southeast corner two more, single story rooms are connected to the main structure, the smaller appearing to be an enclosed rear entry room. The larger is (octagonal?) with (3,5?) faces (each with windows?) and a steepled bell tower roof standing separate from the main house. The bell tower work in concert with the conical gazebo to bookend the façade lending a pleasing yet somewhat jarring symmetry to the otherwise cacophonous roofline.

Indiana Dept. of Natural Resources SHAARD database (State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database)

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