Collection #

P0049

 

 

A. R. (augustus robert) Markle
Collection, ca. 1920–1981

 

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Contents

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Laurie Randall and Dorothy A. Nicholson
15 April 2008

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF
COLLECTION:

1 box of photographs

COLLECTION
DATES:

Ca. 1920–1981

PROVENANCE:

A. R. Markle, Terre Haute, Ind., 1939, 1940, 1952.
Vigo County Historical Society, 1981

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

 

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

 

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

1939.0602, 1939.1104, 1940.0402, 1952.0304, 1952.0404, 1952.0904, 1981.0128

NOTES:

 

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

In 1938, A. R. (Augustus) Markle (1869–1957), a historical and genealogical researcher from Terre Haute, Indiana, began a project to photograph old, existing buildings in Terre Haute.  He also recorded histories of the locations, dates of construction or occupancy, and accounts of the building occupants.  He decided to undertake the project after a fire at Markle Mill. Markle solicited the Indiana Historical Society in October of that year and IHS agreed to purchase his photographs. A long-time member of various literary and historical societies, Markle wrote a column on local history and genealogy for the Terre Haute Tribune beginning in 1931.

Juliet Peddle, an architect on some of the remodeling of buildings in Terre Haute, created the pencil drawings which accompany some of the photographs. Peddle’s drawing of early homes, commercial buildings, schools and churches of Terre Haute and Vigo County were purchased by Shelton and Muriel Hannig and displayed at the local historical building at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1986. In addition to her contribution as an architect, Peddle was a methodical collector of factual material about the history of Terre Haute and Vigo County. At one time, Peddle was one of only two registered architects in the State of Indiana. She graduated from King Classical School in 1918, University of Michigan in 1922, studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and Berkshire, Maine, received her Illinois architectural registration license in 1926 and Indiana license in 1939. She was employed by several architectural firms, and in 1939 opened her own office, continuing her career until 1974.

 

Sources:

“Augustus R. Markle” located in Abraham Markle Biography, submitted by Dennis Bell, c. 1999, Vigo County Biographies Index, Vigo County Biographies Project WWW.geocities.com/vigobios/markle.htm?200722

“Looking Back: Peddle pencil drawings at Rose-Hulman exhibit” Historic Treasure of the Week-March 2, 1986 by Frances Hughes, Vigo County Historical Society http://web.indstate.edu/community/vchs/ht/ht030286.htm

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection contains approximately 125 black-and-white photographs of buildings in Terre Haute, Indiana. A. R. (Augustus) Markle made the photographs between ca. 1920 and 1952. Markle’s personal mission was to document significant examples of architecture in that city. His criteria for photographing buildings were based on the age, architect or architectural style, or significance of the owners of the structures to the history of Terre Haute. The result was a collection that includes small wood-frame homes, mansions, schools, commercial blocks, and public buildings. Markle paid particular attention to structures designed by Terre Haute architect Juliet B. Peddle, and residences and businesses owned by the Hulman, Rose, and Ball families. A small number of photographs of Peddle drawings are included in the collection.

The collection also contains descriptions, and histories of the buildings. Markle wrote the original descriptions. Dorothy Clark and Judy Calvert of the Vigo County Historical Society wrote and revised these histories in 1965 and 1980. Most of the histories are current to 1965. The Indiana Historical Society acquired the collection in a number of accessions from Markle in 1938, 1940, 1952, and 1952. 

The photographs were numbered by Markle and have been arranged in numerical order. There are approximately ten photographs per folder. After each folder of photographs is a folder of descriptions for those buildings. The last two folders contain the additional descriptions and corrections provided by the Vigo County Historical Society.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

1. Rose Building [Hart’s Feed Store]
2. Ross Building
3. St. John-Boudinot Building
4. Branch Bank Building [G.A.R. Memorial Hall]
5. Clark House [also 5A]
6. McGregor Building
7. Stewart House [P. J. Ryan Livery Stable] [also 7A]
8. Wolfe House [also 8A]
9. Gilman Office
10. Sibleytown School [also 10A]

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 1

Descriptions of buildings 1–10

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 2

11. South School—Ross School [A.J. Jewett Printing Co] [also 11A]
12.Wabash Woolen Mill [Sussman Iron and Metal Co]
13. Eagle Foundry [also 13A]
14. Pence Hall
15. Early Block
16. Modesitt’s Building
17. Linton House [also 17A]
18. Prairie City Bank [Wabash Furniture Company
19. Farrngton Block [Shandy’s Drugstore] [also 19A]
20. Dole Building
22. Welch’s Tavern

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 3

Descriptions of buildings 11–22

Manuscripts:
Box 1, Folder 4

25. Early Apartments
26. Routledge Building
27. Phoenix Row [also 27A]
28. Union Row [also 28A]
29. The Linton Block [also 29A, 29AA]
30. Warren Block [also 30A]
31. Fourth Street Post Office [Court House Furniture Exchange]
32. Hulman Store [also 32A, 32AA]
33. Present Hulman & C. Building [also 33A]
34. Judge Mack’s Office [Peggy’s Lunch]
35. Mechanics Row [Smith’s Department Store]
36. Lucius H. Scott House
37. Saint Joseph’s Academy, Catholic Female Academy
38. Dowling House
39. Terre Haute & Alton Railroad Station [Big Four Freight Depot]
41. Washington Hall [Maxwell House Buffet]

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 5

Descriptions of Buildings  25–41

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 6

42. Terre Haute Female College
43. Terre Haute & Richmond Railroad Station
44. Jacob Ryman House
46. Ashbury Chapel
47. Dayton Condit House
48. Mary Boudinot House
49. Centenary Methodist Church
50. Vigo County Seminary
51. The Prairie House
52. The Buntin House

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 7

Descriptions of Buildings 42–52

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 8

53. Mofatt House
54. Dr. Ball House
55. Present Markle House
56. Original Markle House
57. Bement Store [also 57A]
58. Wabash & Erie Canal Office
59. Sibley House
60. Star Bakery
61. John T. Scott House
62. Rowdy Hall
63. Blinn House

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 9

Descriptions of Buildings 53–63

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 10

64. Max Joseph House
65. Saint Benedict’s Catholic Church (original)
66. Baldwin Presbyterian Church
67. Terre Haute High School-Wiley High School [also 67A, 67AA]
68. Saint Benedict’s Catholic Church (second)
69. Warren House
70. Truman Blackman House [also 70A, 70AA]
71. Northern Liberties Engine House
73. Colonel Thompson House
74. Spring Hill House

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 11

Descriptions of Buildings 64–74

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 12

75. Judge Deming House
77. Second Ward School, Hulman School
78. Subscription School
79. Rose Polytechnic Institute
81. Coates College
82. Lambert Duy House
85. Hazeldine Machine Shop
89. Preston House [also 89A, 89AA, 89B]
92. Fearn’s Store [Jerry’s Bakery]
93. Hulman & Begg’s Liquor House [also 93A]
94. Old Corner

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 13

Descriptions of Buildings 75–94

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 14

95. Sixth Street Post Office [also 95A] [Roots Wallpaper]
97. Zenas Smith House
100. Saint Benedict’s Parochial School
101. Hulman’s Sisters’ House
105. Beulah Mission, The Old Paris Bar
108 Naylor Opera House
109 The Old City Hall
110. [Residence]
112 National State Bank
115. The Normal School [also 115A]
116. Herman Hulman House
118. [Kleeman Dry Goods Company]
119. [C. S. Tuttle & Co., Millers & Dealers in Grain]
124. [N.W. Corner of 5th and Wabash Streets]
125. Vigo Woolen Mill [also 125A]
126. [Gulick & Berry Drugs]
128. [Braman Berry & Co.]
135. [Residence of Ezra Reed]
137. [Long’s Block]
146 [Saint Bonaventures College & Saint Joseph’s Church [also 146 A]
165. Rose Orphan Home [Chauncey Rose School]

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 15

Descriptions of Buildings 95–165

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 16

Additions and Corrections to Descriptions, Judy Calvert

Photographs::
Box 1, Folder 17

Descriptions of items in collection, and additional notes by Judy Calvert

Photographs:
Box 1, Folder 18

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