Glenn & Marie Bowman House

585 North Miami Street

Built: 1940

Style: Colonial Williamsburg

Glenn A. and Marie Bowman built this home and continued to live there into the 1960s. Mr. Bowman worked as a salesman for Honeywell Regulator Company and later for Robertshaw, Inc., makers of range controls. Mrs. Bowman was the special gifts chairman and membership director of the Wabash Unit of the Indiana State Symphony Society for approximately thirty-five years.

The style of this home is an interpretation of modest vernacular houses in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, which was restored and opened to the public in the early 1930s. Its steeply pitched, side-gabled main roof, dormer windows with gable roofs, and nearly symmetrical façade are all features of the Williamsburg style.