Old People’s Home
| Dates: | 1895-1896, demolished c.1960s |
| Location: | South side of Esplanade, Grant Avenue, Indiana State Soldiers' Home, near Lafayette, Indiana |
| Architects: | J. F. Alexander & Son, of Lafayette, Indiana |
The Old People's Home was designed to provide housing for elderly veterans and their wives. The building measured 108' by 113' and contained 45 rooms. The tower was 148' high and the cities of Lafayette, Delphi, the Tippecanoe Battlefield, the Wea Plains and an expansive view of the Wabash River valley could be seen from the sixth floor observation level.
The tower was torn down to the third floor level sometime before 1931. The building was demolished along with almost all the other buildings at the Indiana State Soldiers' Home during expansion of the hospital/nursing home facilities in the 1960s-1970s.
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| Old People's Home, 1895, from an original rendering by J. F. & W. C. Alexander | |
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| Old People's Building, 1906 | Old People's Building, 1909 |
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| Old People's Building, c.1920 | The building in 1931, after the removal of the upper part of the tower |