The Hermitage (Brookville, Indiana)

	The Hermitage
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
	The Hermitage, March 2012
Location	650 E. 8th St., Brookville, Indiana
Coordinates	39°25′21″N 85°0′17″W / 39.42250°N 85.00472°W
Area	6.1 acres (2.5 ha)
Built	c. 1835, 1898
Built by	Adams, John Ottis; et.al.
Architectural style	Bungalow/craftsman
NRHP reference No.	04000209
Added to NRHP	March 22, 2004

The Hermitage, also known as the John Ottis Adams and Winifred Brady Adams Home and Studio, is a historic home located at Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana. The original house was built about 1835 by well-to-do paper manufacturer James Henry Speer. It was reconfigured in 1898 by John Ottis Adams and his wife Winifred Brady Adams.

It is a 1+1⁄2-story, Bungalow / American Craftsman inspired frame dwelling sheathed in clapboard. A full-width front porch supported by 17 tapered columns. At each end of the house are artist's studios, built for each of the Adamses. A rear section rises to 2+1⁄2 stories. Also on the property are the levee built after a flood in 1913, contributing gazebo (c. 1910), pergola (c. 1910), and outhouse.

Originally painter J. Ottis Adams (1851-1927) shared the house and studios with T.C. Steele. By 1899 he and his wife Winifred Brady Adams, a still-life painter, took over full possession of the property.^[2]^: 2–3

The Hermitage was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.^[1] It is located in the Brookville Historic District.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved November 1, 2015. Note: This includes Martha Shea and Paul Diebold (March 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: The Hermitage" (PDF). Retrieved November 1, 2015. and Accompanying photographs.

External links[edit]

Media related to The Hermitage (Brookville, Indiana) at Wikimedia Commons

This article about a property in Franklin County, Indiana on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

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

[SHAARD-2] "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved November 1, 2015. Note: This includes Martha Shea and Paul Diebold (March 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: The Hermitage" (PDF). Retrieved November 1, 2015. and Accompanying photographs.

[1]

[2]

v t e U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Indiana
Topics	Contributing property Keeper of the Register Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Property types
Lists by county	Adams Allen Bartholomew Benton Blackford Boone Brown Carroll Cass Clark Clay Clinton Crawford Daviess Dearborn Decatur DeKalb Delaware Dubois Elkhart Fayette Floyd Fountain Franklin Fulton Gibson Grant Greene Hamilton Hancock Harrison Hendricks Henry Howard Huntington Jackson Jasper Jay Jefferson Jennings Johnson Knox Kosciusko LaGrange Lake LaPorte Lawrence Madison Marion: Center Township Marion: Other Marshall Martin Miami Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Noble Ohio Orange Owen Parke Perry Pike Porter Posey Pulaski Putnam Randolph Ripley Rush St. Joseph Scott Shelby Spencer Starke Steuben Sullivan Switzerland Tippecanoe Tipton Union Vanderburgh Vermillion Vigo Wabash Warren Warrick Washington Wayne Wells White Whitley
Other lists	Bridges National Historic Landmarks
Keeper of the Register History of the National Register of Historic Places Property types Historic district Contributing property