Sandburg House

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Sandburg House
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LocationPoet's Path, Harbert, Michigan [1]
Coordinates 41°53′0″N86°37′50″W / 41.88333°N 86.63056°W / 41.88333; -86.63056 Coordinates: 41°53′0″N86°37′50″W / 41.88333°N 86.63056°W / 41.88333; -86.63056
Arealess than one acre
Built1928 (1928)
ArchitectLilian Sandburg
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival
NRHP reference # 72001470 [2]
Added to NRHPApril 14, 1972

The Sandburg House is a private home located on Lake Michigan near Harbert, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [2]

Lake Michigan One of the Great Lakes of North America

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History

In 1926, poet Carl Sandburg published the first volume of his biography of Abraham Lincoln entitled Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. Exhausted from this and other writings, Sandburg and his family left Chicago for the summer to vacation in a cottage overlooking Lake Michigan near Harbert. Charmed by the location, the family stayed in Harbert through the fall. A few years later, they built this house along the shore of the lake. [3] The house was designed by Lilian Sandburg, Carl's wife. [4]

Carl Sandburg American writer and editor

Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life", and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."

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The Sandburgs lived in this house year-round for nearly two decades. Carl Sandburg continued to write, and it was here that he wrote the second volume of his Lincoln biography, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, which won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize in history. [3] At one point, Sandburg's daughter Helga asked if she could keep a cow. Rather than a cow, the Sandburgs purchased goats, and Lilian Sandburg Lilian began a career of goat breeding, and started what she called the "Chikaming Goat Farm." In 1940, Lilian Sandburg won both the "Grand Champion Nubian Golden Cup" and the "Grand Champion Toggenburg Silver Cup" for prize goats. [5]

Pulitzer Prize U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition

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However, in 1945, the Sandburgs decided that the winters were too harsh, and moved to another house in North Carolina, which is now the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. [3] In 1947, they sold the house to Theodore Yntema, then a University of Chicago professor. It changed hands multiple times since then. [6]

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Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site United States historic place

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The Sandburg House is a multi-storied house designed by Lilian Sandburg with mixed Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival elements. It is located high on a steeply sloping bank overlooking the beach of Lake Michigan. The house rises three stories on the Lake Michigan side, and five stories on the land side, [7] and contains multiple windows overlooking the lake. [4] It had a widow's walk on the roof, which has since been removed, and a vault in the basement. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ The NRIS gives the location of the Sandburg House as "address restricted." However, sources give the location as on "Poet's Path". The geo-coordinates are approximate.
  2. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 "When Carl Sandburg Called Michigan Home". Absolute Michigan. March 14, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  4. 1 2 Galen Reuther (2006), The Carl Sandburg Home: Connemara, Arcadia Publishing, pp. 41–47, ISBN   9780738542768
  5. ↑ John Gunner Gooch (Aug 5, 2015), "Historical marker to commemorate Carl Sandburg's 'Harbert years'", Harbor Country News
  6. 1 2 Katie Sizer (May 21, 1960), "Setting For His Greatest Labors Writer's Moods Recalled By Ex-Neighbors", The News-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan
  7. ↑ Roger Ebert (May 20, 2000), Carl Sandburg, Film Critic
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