Shadowwood


Shadowwood
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Shadowwood, April 2011
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Location	6451 E. Wheatland Rd., east of Vincennes, Palmyra Township, Knox County, Indiana
Coordinates	38°41′59″N 87°25′06″W / 38.69972°N 87.41833°W / 38.69972; -87.41833Coordinates: 38°41′59″N 87°25′06″W / 38.69972°N 87.41833°W / 38.69972; -87.41833
Area	13 acres (5.3 ha)
Built	1917 (1917)
Architect	Gaddis, J.W.
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference #	01000618^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 6, 2001

Shadowwood, also known as the Wharf Estate, is a historic estate located in Palmyra Township, Knox County, Indiana. The main house was built in 1917, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, Colonial Revival style brick dwelling built for Col. Eugene C. Wharf. It has a side gabled tile roof. The south facade features a two-story portico with a second story sleeping porch. Also on the property are the contributing pump house (1917), carriage house (1917), and chicken house (c. 1945).^[2]^{:5, 13}

When Colonel Wharf died his widow, Mrs. Stella C. Wharf, conveyed the family home to Vincennes University as a memorial. At the suggestion of Judge Curtis Shake, president of the VU Board of Trustees, university president Dr. Isaac K. Beckes worked to transfer the property to The Grand Chapter of the Sigma Pi Fraternity for use as its national headquarters in August of 1961. The fraternity had been founded at the university in 1897. Mrs. Wharf approved of the deal.^[3] The building housed the International Headquarters of Sigma Pi Fraternity from 1963 to 2003.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2015-08-01. Note: This includes Marc E. Sirotkin (July 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Shadowwood" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-09-01. and Accompanying photographs.
↑ "Permanent Headquarters Dedicated" (PDF). The Emerald of Sigma Pi. Vol. 49 no. 3. Fall 1962. pp. 102–105.

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