Gardner-Houser-Nixon House

180 North Miami Street

Built: 1903

Style: Tudor

Marland Gardner, founder of the Wabash Cabinet Company, and his wife Della built the home and later sold it to Dr. Burvia Houser, a renowned surgeon and physician, and his wife Anna. The Housers sold the home to Don and Eugenia Nixon in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Mr. Nixon was the founder of Nixon Newspapers. Mrs. Nixon, a concert pianist, later became the wife of Mark Honeywell, a founder of Honeywell International.

An excellent example of the Tudor Revival style, this home employs the use of half-timber and stucco. Architectural features include the steeply pitched cross gables of the roof, the large polygonal projecting bay of the west façade, and the diamond quarrels of the windows.