Conrad-vanSanten Home -- 3145 North Delaware Street

Year Built: 1925

Architectural Style: Arts and Crafts

- Key Features:

• Decorative Stickwork
• Wood Siding
• Exposed Roof Beams

The first owner was Homer Laughlin. He was a graphics designer here in Indianapolis and was hired to move to Chicago to work in the Leo Burnett group in the early 1930s. In the 1970s, the home was the Indianapolis center for the Christian cult — the Children of God. Notable among its members elsewhere were actor River Phoenix's parents. The second floor had a greenhouse in the back of the house where sacramental marijuana was grown.