Barker House is a historic home located at Michigan City,

LaPorte County, Indiana LaPorte County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 111,467. The county seat is the city of La Porte, and the largest city is Michigan City. This county is part of the Northwest Indiana and Michiana ...

. It was built about 1900, and is a two-story, rectangular, Shingle Style /

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style dwelling. It sits on a brick foundation and has a hipped roof with hipped dormer and has a modified

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plan. Also on the property are the contributing

carriage house A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack. In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open f ...

, dance studio, and garage. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. The house and grounds are occupied by the

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offices and Barker Woods Nature Preserve, which is managed by

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. It was listed on the

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in 2001.

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The Barker House
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Conservation Fund) Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Shingle Style architecture in Indiana Houses completed in 1900 Houses in LaPorte County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in LaPorte County, Indiana {{LaPorteCountyIN-NRHP-stub