Hugh McCulloch House, Greek Revival house in Fort Wayne, US
The Hugh McCulloch House is a two-story painted brick building, three bays wide and four deep, in the Greek Revival style. Its front portico is carried by four Doric columns, and an Italianate addition was put up in 1862.
The house was built in 1843 and belonged to Hugh McCulloch, who became Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Its later conversion to a medical school in the 1890s marked a shift from private residence to an institution serving the broader community.
The Fort Wayne College of Medicine bought the house in 1892 and remodeled it for teaching; the college sold it in 1906 to the Turnverein Verewoerts, a Turners' society that kept it until 1966. The building's name still comes from the Treasury Secretary who had it built, not from either institution.
The house stands at 333 West Superior Street in Fort Wayne, a short walk from the downtown core. It is a private building, so visits focus on the exterior: the four-column Doric portico faces the street, and the 1862 Italianate addition can be seen from the side and rear.
The building earned recognition on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 for its rare combination of Greek Revival and Italianate styles on a single structure. This architectural mix reflects how tastes evolved as the house was modified and expanded over its lifetime, rather than being built all at once in one style.
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