Jabez Reeves Farmstead is a historic home and farm and national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located in Center Township,

Rush County, Indiana Rush County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. In the 2010 United States Census, the population was 17,392. The county seat (and only city) is Rushville. History When the Indiana Territory was granted statehood (20 December 1816), there ...

. The Reeves-Hodson House was built about 1855, and is two-story, brick

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with

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

and

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

style design elements. It features segmental arched windows and simple brackets under a wide eave. Also on the property are the contributing windmill, brick

smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with t ...

(c. 1855), and large

English barn The English barn, or three-bay barn, is a barn style that was most popular in the northeast region of the US,Auer, Michael JThe Preservation of Historic Barns Preservation Briefs, National Park Service, first published October 1989. Retrieved 7 ...

. ''Note:'' This includes . It was listed on the

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in 1989.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Houses completed in 1855 Greek Revival architecture in Indiana Italianate architecture in Indiana Historic districts in Rush County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Rush County, Indiana {{RushCountyIN-NRHP-stub