Henry Taylor Sample House
| Dates: | c.1840 , moved 2002 |
| Location: | 108 (originally 104) S. Third Street, Lafayette, Indiana |
This house seems to have been built for Henry Taylor Sample, an early settler of Lafayette, in the late-1830s. The house was a relatively plain Federal/Greek Revival style gable-front house. It sat on the southwest corner of Third (originally Ohio) and Alabama Streets.
The Sample house was sold by Henry Taylor Sample’s son, Robert W. Sample, to Julia A. Broderick on September 9, 1895. The house was remodeled by Mrs. Broderick around 1896-1897, and was sold to Ira J. Howe and William H. Shipley on October 22, 1897. The property was sold to Daniel and Mary A. Naughton by 1903. Sometime in the mid-twentieth century the house was divided into apartments and was poorly maintained by the time its demolition was threatened around 2000. The developers who had planned a mixed-use commercial/residential building for the property decided to preserve the house by moving it to the adjacent lot (108 S. Third) where a mid-1890s frame house had just been demolished. The Sample House was moved in November, 2002, and has been renovated for a mix of apartments and commercial use. Today it is perhaps the oldest surviving buildings in Lafayette.
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| The Sample House, December, 2000 | Preparing for the move, October, 2002 |
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| Front door, October 2002 | |
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| November, 2002 | After the move, November, 2002 |
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| Original brick and stone foundation | Original foundation with house in background |
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| Steel beams and railroad ties used to move the house | |
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| New location almost up against the Henry Taylor house | Front door, June, 2003 |
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| June, 2004 | Sample Run Apartments on original site of Sample House, June, 2003 |