Edward Kelham House

Edward Kelham House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Edward Kelham House, January 2013
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Location	County Road 48, west of Garrett, Keyser Township, DeKalb County, Indiana
Coordinates	41°21′7″N85°11′20″W / 41.35194°N 85.18889°W / 41.35194; -85.18889
Area	less than one acre
Built	1870 (1870)
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Italianate, Colonial Revival
MPS	Keyser Township MRA
NRHP reference No.	83000018 [1]
Added to NRHP	May 6, 1983

Edward Kelham House is a historic home located near Garrett in Keyser Township, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was built in 1870, and is a two-story, Italianate-style frame dwelling with Greek Revival detailing. It has one-story, hip roofed, Colonial Revival style front porch supported by Tuscan order columns. It has unfluted corner pilasters and a plain wide frieze. Its namesake and original resident, Edward Kelham, was an immigrant from Lincolnshire, England who settled in DeKalb County in 1857. The home is considered one of the earliest examples of Italianate architecture in DeKalb County. ^{[2] : Part 1, p. 16}

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved August 1, 2015.Note: This includes Craig Leonard (October 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Keyser Township MRA (Part 1)" (PDF). Retrieved August 1, 2015., Craig Leonard (October 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Keyser Township MRA (Part 2)" (PDF). Retrieved August 1, 2015. and Accompanying photographs.