Grand Root House (Crown Point, Indiana)

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An imposing Queen Anne painted lady built in c: 1895, perhaps the town's finest example of Queen Anne architecture with Free Classic elements. The image of this house is now painted on an ornamental glass bulb that the Greater Crown Point Chamber issued in 1997. The nine room home was built for David A. Root, his wife Carrie Dyer Root and son Clayton. The Roots descend from a colonial American family that had arrived in New England in 1635. David A. Root established Root Lumber Co. in 1892. This house was the setting for many fine social events in Crown Point, such as Fortnightly Musicale Society. Michael Lunn, a fifth generation Root family member, recently bought the house from his mother, Judith Root Stiles.