Continuing on
with the “housebuilding in Crawfordsville” theme,” direct your attention to
House Design No. 2362. Does that look
familiar? If you drive on the west end
of town, say, on Main Street, you may find several houses that appear to have been
built from this plan. In 1913, you could go “house shopping” at Joseph Binford
& Sons, 215-217 South Washington Street, and find the house of your
dreams. (This location is now taken by
the Crawfordsville District Public Library.)
Find your house, order the truckload of parts, and have it all delivered
to your building site. This is very
similar to the “Sears” houses that were popular at the time.
As we frequently
have patrons who are curious about who had lived in their house before, I
researched in our Crawfordsville City Directories to find the previous
residents of one of these Binford houses in Crawfordsville. You may also use
plat maps from several years back to find who owned your land in certain years.
1914 Reverent
B.E. Antrobus Minister at First Baptist Church
1924 William A.
Shaw (no vocation given)
1949 Fletcher B.
Kerr Auditor, State Treasury Dept.
1958 Willard
Harrison Allied Van Lines Driver
1971 Clarence
Davidson Officer-in-Charge, U.S. Army
Recruiter
(I spoke with the current owner, and had permission to
share this information.)
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