Mary Birdsall House
Mary Birdsall House | |
| Location | 504 NW Fifth Street, Richmond, Indiana |
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| Coordinates | 39°50′5″N 84°54′31″W / 39.83472°N 84.90861°W |
| Built | 1859 |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| NRHP reference No. | 99001155 |
| Added to NRHP | September 23, 1999 |
The Mary Birdsall House is known as the Lauramoore Guest House & Retreat Center and is located in Richmond, Indiana. It was built in 1859 for Thomas and Mary Birdsall, a leading woman's suffragist in Indiana. The Italianate brick-built house is a two-story structure standing at the corner of Northwest Fifth Street and Richmond Avenue. In 1927, the Whitewater Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friends converted the building to a retirement home, adding on a two-story addition on the west and north sides of the building. Later, the property was given to Earlham College, and it now serves as a guest house and retreat center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.