Talk:Pollard-Nelson House

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Dating the P-N House to 1910 misses the importance of its initial construction in the 1840's. While the Nelsons made considerable changes when they moved in about 1880, and again when Mrs. Nelson came into her Cheney family inheritance early in the 20th Century, Col. Pollard laid down the two story Grec temple block with flanking one story parlors in soft fired brick that had to be painted only a few years after he had built his four story canal warehouse on the downhill side of the same city block. The Wabash and Erie Canal arrived in Logansport in 1838, and made a lot of people much richer if they survived the cholera epidemic of the same year.

The 6' high limestone retaining wall that preserves the elevation of the hill the house was built on against the convenience of the level to which the street has cut it down, the two story Ionic columns, the iron framed balcony, and the buttermilk finished butternut woodwor

--4.224.234.228 22:57, 15 January 2007 (PST)