The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-21
LindyS Settle on
old Farm to Wait
Building of Home
Colonel and Wife, Living in
Jersey, Draw Crowds
of Curious.
BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN
NEA Service Writer

PRINCETON, N. j., Nov. I'll
Americas most famous young mar
ried couple have settled down to
housekeeping on an old-fashioned
New Jersey farm.
Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lind
bergh and their 5-months-old son,
Charles Jr., are living on "the Van
Horn place" three miles out of
Princeton. They've been there al
most long enough to get the furni-
ture shifted about the way they like
it in their eight-room colonial FARM
house, which was rented furnished
When they settled down they did
so literally, dropping from the sky
in the trim cream and blue colored
airplane, Mr. 727Y, with which they
have made history
Nowadays it's no uncommon thing
for the neighbors to see the colonel
so much more widely known as
an aviator than as a farmer-bare-
headed and with sleeves rolled up,
cut tinkering around the plane or
one of the two cars standing in the
rickety shed which does service as
garage.
Neighbors Far Away
A butler, cook and nurse for
Charles Junior comprise the domes-
tic staff of the celebrated flying
ambassador. When Mrs. Lind
bergh wants to borrow a cup of
sugar or a couple of eggs to finish
quick cake, it will be necessary to
send down the road a quarter of a
mile to the Stanley Terhune home.
The Terhunes are the nearest
neighbors. A mile down the road in
the other direction live DR.. and
Mrs. Edwin Northrup. Other neigh
bors are still farther removed.
Sundays in particular but on week
days, too, there is a constant pro-
cession of motor cars slowly wind
ing along Rosedale road. Some of
thse drivers park and wait for hours
in hope that the blue winged BIZ
plane will take off. So far there
have been no Sunday flights.
Trooper Directs Traffic
Last Sunday the cars were so nu->
merous a state trooper was called
upon to direct traffic. Some of the
curious brought field glasses. They
didn't want to move on according
to the troopers orders.
It's narrow road, ordinarily lit
tie Travelled, and these tourists are
making it bad for the farmers who
haul apples to market.
What the tourists see is a severe
old three-story farmhouse, painted
white, with green shutters at win
dows, behind which hang frilled
white curtains. There is a board
fence painted white inclosing the
front yard" of the place and back
of the house stands an aged wind
mill.
A fiagstone walk leads from the
back door to the road. There are
a few struggling shade trees beside
the house and in the rear stand
half a dozen implanted farm build
ings, none in the best of condition.
The farm includes ninety acres of
land.
House Is Century Old
The Lindbergh dwelling is prob
ably more than 100 years old. The
real estate dealer who made the
transaction, does not know the exact
date when the house was built.
The property is owned by Harold
M. Van Horn, who vacated the house
shortly before the LindberghS
arrived. The Van Horns furniture,
old colonial in keeping with the
architecture, remains in the house.
Colonel Lindbergh says. that he
and his wife chose their new farm
home, because it offered quiet and
because it is convenient for super
the building of their new
residence on property recently
bought by the colonel on Mount
Sorrell, nine miles from Princeton.
Architects are drawing up the
plans for the house and surveyors
are at work on the place. 1t is not
expected that construction will
begin until next spring.