The Letz House (Crown Point, Indiana)

USA / Indiana / Crown Point / Crown Point, Indiana / South Court Street, 457
 house, place with historical importance
This landmark house, a Colonial Revival, was built c: 1925 by William Letz (1881-1961) the son of a prosperous local manufacturer of farm machinery. Louis Holland Letz, his father, a German immigrant had established Letx Manufacturing in 1884 and by 1894 won a gold medal prize at the World's Fair in Chicago for the Letz Feed Grinder. The living room exhibits a 40" x 30" mural by Schultz, an artist from Valparaiso, that was commissioned by the Letz family. Note the ornate capitals, flat tile roof shingles and copper gutters. An earlier house had once stood on this location, the home of John Luther who had been an early settler in Crown Point.
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Coordinates:   41°24'39"N   87°21'59"W
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