page_title: William McCallum House
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: William McCallum House / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Floor Plan of the Wm McCallum Hse in Valparaiso, IN
context_page_description: The William B. McCallum House, built in 1887, is an Italianate Style house contains many of the basic elements of Italianate design, including brick masonry, deep eves, thick cornice features of wood and protruding flattened arch brick window lintels and a two-story bay window.
  William McCallum, with his wife Susan and their two children came to United States from Canada in 1878. He is listed as a “dry goods merchant” in 1884 with a store at 13 East Main, a few blocks west of his home. In 1899-1900, the firm of Specht-Finney-Skinner opened a department store at 11 East Main. McCallum appeared to have joined that firm as he was no longer listed as self-employed. At age 84, according to the 1930 Census, McCallum was still working as a dry goods salesman. In that year, the house was valued at $12,000.
context_section_description: The house was constructed circa 1885 as a two-story, double brick, asymmetrical Italianate residence with a low hip-and-gable roof system. The exterior walls are English bond brick. The neighborhood contains similar houses on tree-covered lots. The interior is approximately 5,000 sq ft.
  The front façade, on the south, include a Colonial Revival porch and a two-story bay. Two wooden Tuscan columns support porch roof. Above the front door is a rectangular glass transom of beveled and leaded white glass with the house number backed in red. West of the porch is the two-story bay with floor to ceiling windows. The crowns are finished with a two-brick drop or pendant with sandstone sills. The cornice is most apparent on the south facade, but is complete all around the house. Eave brackets are in pairs, and applied to a tall paneled trim band.
  The house has been placed on the National Register of Historic Structures for the Italianate architecture.
caption: Floor Plan of the Wm McCallum Hse in Valparaiso, IN
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