Renaissance Classical Revival Samuel A. Culbertson, banker Outstanding architectural details are the wreaths and garlands. Inside, there is a finely crafted staircase and a huge parlor-library the length of the house. Another Victorian Culbertson Family mansion is at 914 E. Main Street in New Albany, Indiana, and is open for tours. See the Culbertson Mansion Home Page for more details and an extensive history of this house. The great entry hall has a carved mahogany ceiling, the many parquet floors have different patterns, one bedroom mantle has a secret jewelry compartment.
Horse stalls are still intact in the carriage house.
This house and the one to the south were built as rental properties. As in most of these large homes a back staircase existed for the use of servants. The family never went into any part of the house, yard, or carriage house where the servants worked or lived. Interior features were wallpaper from France and red curtains sewn with real gold thread. Mission Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation Burton's DX Filling Station began several decades of operation on this site in 1944.