Lanier Mansion

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Lanier Mansion
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
Location: Madison, Indiana
Architect: Costigan, Francis
Architectural style(s): Greek Revival
Added to NRHP: April 19, 1994
NRHP Reference#: 94001191 [1]
Governing body: State

The Lanier Mansion is the 1844 Greek Revival home of James F.D. Lanier, located at 601 West First Street in historic Madison, Indiana. The home was designed by architect Francis Costigan of Madison. The Lanier Home is the jewel of Madison’s Historic District, the district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

It strict building in Greek Revival style includes the fact that a right door of a pair of doors opens only into a wall; the right door was necessary so that the left door would have a match.[2]

Lanier only lived at the property for seven years, afterwards he moved to New York. In 1861 his son Alexander moved into the home, and lived there until 1895. It would remain with the family until 1917 when James' youngest son Charles gave it as the Lanier Memorial Museum to Jefferson County Historical Society. In 1925 the society, with the family's blessing, gave control of it to the state, which promptly opened it publicly as a historic house museum.

[edit] References

  1. ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
  2. ^ My Indiana:101 Places to See, by Earl L. Conn (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2006). pg.166
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