Knox County Tuberculosis Hospital: Director’s House – Vincennes IN

City:
Vincennes, IN

Site Type:
Education and Health, Civic Facilities, Hospitals and Clinics, Auxiliary Civic Facilities

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1938

Completed:
1939

Description

One of the few Art Deco style dwellings in the county, it was constructed with Public Works Administration (PWA) funds between 1938 and 1939, of a limestone foundation and walls. It features banded corner windows, offset entry flanking louvered windows rear entry and attached one car garage with walkout porch atop. Incredible limestone curved/carved fireplace surround and mantel.

Source notes

DNR Historic Site and Structures Inventory; Knox Co Interim Report (p.52, #013).

Site originally submitted by Indiana DNR, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology on September 1, 2015.

Location Info


Pinecrest Dr.
Vincennes, IN 47591
Knox County

Coordinates: 38.677269, -87.528633

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