The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-26
witness-stand. He said there was grudge be
tween them, but Of what nature he refused to
tell.
CHRISTENING THE VILLAS.
Two Old Citizens Enlighten the Younger
Generations on Matters of History.

A correspondent at Spencer Owen county,
who will be generally suspected OF a recent and
not very remote connection with the fishing
touching the mares Of old home8teads and says
that ne d 20 every possible chance to know better
III I'D any other man in this country that the
elder Calvin Fletcher gave the name of Wood
lawn" to his Virginia-avenue premises,
many years before Mr. Butler called his
residence Forest Home" The correspondent
further suggests that the old residence of DR..
Mcclure, at the point between South Meridian
street and Madison avenue, was called white
Point" before Mr.. Buffers time. In this he is
partly right. The name of white Point was
not given by DR.. John E. Mcclure so much as
adopted by him from the popular designation of
the most conspicuous residence in the city,
standing on the slope of the creek bluff, quar-.
ter of mile south of the old Morris Morris
home and visible from every direction that was
not blocked by woods The reminiscent thinks
that Charles w. Cady gave name to his resi-
dence, afterwards better known as the Vance
Homestead" as early as Mr. Butler did. but is
not sure. 9 One of the oldest SPECIAL names Of a
house was the nickname of the First Methodist
Church. a hewed log the south side of Mary
land street. near the site of the east end of
the Grand Hotel. 1t was called KAT
Castle" by somebody, and the pupils in the school
near by kept the name up. The same name
was sometimes given to a story frame on the
site of the museum. The cellar under it was
turned into hog-wallow early as 1886 The
walls were broken down if any were ever erected
and the whole building stood over hole access-
bic from either side. Here was the book bindery
of the Goudays, who bound the States work
awhile, and here Robert Gouday, whom very few
old citizens will remember as a sore-eyed, stu
dious young man, lived for awhile about 1849
These nicknames stuck pretty tight to both
houses, at least among the people living in the
vicinity.
To tho Editor of the Indianapolis Journals:
We are served with the Sunday Journal regu-
larly now, and its contents enliven these hot,
sleepy Sunday afternoons. in yesterdays iss
under the heading, whats in a Nance" ". ;.
speak of the habit of giving names to home
steads and allude to Mr. Ovid Buffers precedence
remark as to the big elm on Virginia avenue
The residence occupied by Mr.. Fletcher from
1889 to 1856 near Fletcher Place Church, was
built by DR.. John Sanders, after his own peculiar
views, to attain the highest sanitary condition
possible of hewed red or slippery elm, no chnk-
ing or daubing, then furred on
both sides and plastered within
and weatherboarded without. The house was
commodlous and restricted to one story, with a
long garrett over head. The situation was charm
ing, In the midst of beautiful grove, and twenty
years before Mr.. Ovid Butler built Forest
Home" The place was called ''Woodlawn," and
was so noted on one of the maps of the city. The
residence of DR.. Mcclure, at the intersection of
south Meridian street and Madison avenue,
where long afterwards Nicholas McCarty lived,
was built about the same time and called white
I Point" Mrs Governor Wallace, or Mrs. Robert
Duncan could tell whence the name OF Wood
lawn" was taken. F.
SPENCER, Ind, July 20, 1885.