Billy Sunday Historic Home, House museum in Winona Lake, US.
The Billy Sunday Home is a bungalow in the Arts and Crafts style in Winona Lake, Indiana, built in 1911 on the site of the family's earlier house, "The Illinois", which was lifted off its foundation and moved across the street. The Sundays named it Mount Hood. Inside are shellacked burlap wall treatments, exposed rafter tails and beams, sleeping porches, and an Inglenook seating area around the fireplace, a favourite spot of Helen Sunday, who is believed to have shaped the interior design.
The Sunday family summered at Winona Lake before 1911, when they moved permanently and built this bungalow on the site of their former home, The Illinois, which was lifted off its foundation and moved across the street. They named the new house Mount Hood after Oregon property they owned. Helen Sunday willed it to the Winona Christian Assembly; Grace College acquired the grounds in 1968.
The Sundays named the house Mount Hood after property they owned in Oregon near the mountain. Helen Sunday, who outlived her husband and all four children, gave informal tours from the 1950s to admirers of the evangelist. The Inglenook, a seating area around the fireplace, was one of her favourite spots.
Tours of the home are run by the Winona History Center at Grace College, which curates the house; the earlier museum and visitor center built near the property closed in 2010. Contact the center before travelling to confirm when a tour can be arranged. The house stands in the Winona Lake Historic District, in Kosciusko County, Indiana.
A 1957 recording of Helen's description confirms that the room layout and many interior details have remained largely unchanged since she lived there. This makes it rare to experience a home so close to how it was actually arranged a century ago.
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