Bailly Homestead: Cultural Landscape and Historic Structures Report, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Vol. 1 and 2
STRATA Architecture Inc.. 2018. Bailly Homestead: Cultural Landscape and Historic Structures Report, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Vol. 1 and 2. Combined Historic Structure Report and Cultural Landscape Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
The Bailly Homestead is a historic property within the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore at the southern tip of Lake Michigan near the town of Porter, Indiana. The 2.7 acre homestead site contains five structures including the Main House, Brick House, Two-Story Log House, Storehouse, and Chapel. Together, these represent the historic core of the nineteenth century homestead. The Bailly Homestead historically encompassed approximately 2,000 acres. The Bailly Homestead has significance for its association with the Joseph Bailly Family, a prominent family headed by a well-known fur trader in the region, and for the cultural landscape and buildings which retain integrity from the Bailly Family occupation. The period of significance for the Bailly Homestead begins ca. 1822, when Joseph and Marie Bailly established the homestead, and ends in 1918. Their last living granddaughter, Frances Rose Howe, died in 1917, and the property was sold in 1918. The Bailly Homestead complex, including the cemetery to the north, was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1962. A National Register Nomination prepared in 1978, lists the Homestead as having state significance tied to its architecture, commerce, and exploration. The Bailly Homestead Cultural Landscape and Historic Structures Report (CLHSR) is to guide the interpretation, rehabilitation, and maintenance of the Bailly Homestead cultural landscape and buildings. Part 1 of this report provides the history and a record of the existing conditions and past alterations of the immediate Bailly Homestead landscape and buildings through field study, condition assessment, and archival research. Preservation objectives, considerations, and treatment recommendations for the landscape and buildings are presented in Part 2. The overall intent of the landscape treatment is to rehabilitate selected visual and spatial qualities of the cultural landscape to represent the end of the period of significance, 1918, enhance the historic character of the approach to the property and the domestic landscape surrounding the primary buildings, and provide access and new, compatible visitor amenities through a limited Rehabilitation approach.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- STRATA Architecture Inc.
- Date of Issue
- 2018-05-07
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- INDU , MWR
- Keywords
- American Indian, architecture, Calumet River, cemetery, chapel, Chellberg Farm, commerce, conservatory, Environmental Learning Center, exploration, farmstead, fur trader, homestead, interpretation, Joseph Bailley, Lake Michigan, log house, National Historic Landmark, orchard, rehabilitation, restaurant, trade, windmill
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 000728: Bailly Homestead - Main House (Tract #36-100) , CRIS-HS: 007453: Bailly Homestead Brick House (Tract #36-100) , CRIS-HS: 007456: Bailly Homestead Chapel (Tract #36-100) , CRIS-HS: 007455: Bailly Homestead Log Storehouse (Tract #36-100) , CRIS-HS: 007454: Bailly Homestead Two-Story Log Building (#36-100)