The Great Houses

1860–2026 · ONE HOUSE WHOLE, THE REST AT THEIR RECORD

A wealth record closes with houses, and this ground's close is one house whole and the rest at sketch strength. The Service House — this section's whole entry: built 1860–61, Italianate, the grain-and-banking family's seat, carried entire in the architecture file with its farm at society strength; its building cost stands in no source reached, and the house prints with its cost unsized, under the head rule. The holders' houses at sketch strength: Ranstead's sketch gives him "a fine residence, good out-buildings" on his thousand acres — a house described in five words by its owner's biography, unpriced and undesignated; Clark's 1,500 acres carry no house description in his sketch at all, the anecdotes standing where a house would go. The founder's ground: the Carpenter place east of the town limits — the "beautiful brick residence" of 1900 on the Oak Hill Stock Farm in Howard's telling, standing, Howard says, on "the identical spot where the first building site of New Carlisle was established" — a great house on the founding ground, carried in the biographical record at that strength. The close's verdict matches the leg: one designated house, one described house, one house on the founding spot, and no building cost published for any of them — the fortunes of Terre Coupee were measured in acres and bushels, and their houses were not built to be measured.

Sources:

1. Architecture, nc-arch-service-house — the Service House whole (1860–61, Italianate).
2. Chapman (1880), the Ranstead and Clark sketches — the residence lines at sketch strength; read at the page for this section.
3. Howard (1907), vol. 2, the Guy C. Carpenter sketch — the Oak Hill brick residence and the first-building-site claim, at the carrier's strength.