Charles L. Shrewsbury House

	Charles L. Shrewsbury House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark
	U.S. National Historic Landmark District; Contributing Property
	Principal Facade
Location	301 W. 1st St., Madison, Indiana
Coordinates	38°44′5″N 85°22′58″W / 38.73472°N 85.38278°W
Area	less than one acre
Architect	Francis Costigan
Architectural style	Greek Revival
Part of	Madison Historic District (ID73000020)
NRHP reference No.	94001190
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 19, 1994
Designated NHL	April 19, 1994
Designated NHLDCP	May 25, 1973

This page is about the historic Madison Indiana house. For the historic home in west Virginia, see: Samuel Shrewsbury Sr. House

The Charles L. Shrewsbury House (also known as the Shrewsbury–Windle House) is a historic house museum located at 301 West First Street in Madison, Indiana. Built in 1842 to a design by Francis Costigan, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994 for its fine Classical Revival architecture.^[3] It is located in the Madison Historic District.

History

The Charles Shrewsbury House, also known as the Shrewsbury–Windle House, is the 1848 Greek Revival home of Charles Shrewsbury, a salt-barge riverboat agent, flour manufacturer and pork merchant. Shrewsbury was also the mayor of Madison. The house was designed by Francis Costigan. The Shrewsbury house is a two-story brick building, with a symmetrical 3-bay facade and stone trim details. The building corners feature brick pilasters rising to stone capitals, supporting an entablature punctuated by small attic-level windows. The interior has twelve rooms, thirteen fireplaces and a fifty-three step spiral staircase. The floor to ceiling windows are thirteen feet tall. A man on horseback could easily step through the enormous front and rear doors, which are twelve feet in height.^[3]

Architectural historians have ranked the house's free-standing spiral staircase as the most impressive part of the interior. Built of pine stairs and cherry railings, the staircase ascends from the middle of the house, supporting its own weight. Aside from allowing access to the second floor, the staircase helps to cool the house: hot air from the first floor can rise through the stairwell and leave the house through the attic windows.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Shrewsbury, Charles L., House". National Historic Landmarks Program. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
^ ^a ^b Galvin, John (September 30, 1993). "National Historic Landmark Nomination: Charles L. Shrewsbury House". National Park Service. and Accompanying nine photos, exterior and interior, from 1971
^ Windle, John T. and Robert M. Taylor. The Early Architecture of Madison, Indiana. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1986, 84. ISBN 0-87195-004-9.

External links

Media related to Shrewsbury-Windle House (Madison, Indiana) at Wikimedia Commons

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. IN-8, "Captain Charles L. Shrewsbury House, 301 West First Street (High & Poplar Streets), Madison, Jefferson County, IN", 17 photos, 2 color transparencies, 16 measured drawings, 63 data pages
Shrewsbury–Windle House – Historic Madison
Historic Landmarks of Indiana – spiral staircase

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nhlsum-2] "Shrewsbury, Charles L., House". National Historic Landmarks Program. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved June 5, 2009.

[nrhpinv3-3] Galvin, John (September 30, 1993). "National Historic Landmark Nomination: Charles L. Shrewsbury House". National Park Service. and Accompanying nine photos, exterior and interior, from 1971

[4] Windle, John T. and Robert M. Taylor. The Early Architecture of Madison, Indiana. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1986, 84. ISBN 0-87195-004-9.

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