Moller Farmhouse - 1852 Koehne Street

Year Built: Circa 1880s

Architecture Style: I-House with Addition

Key Features:

• Two Front Entrances
• Segmental Arched Windows
• Two Rooms Wide, One Room Deep Footprint

Originally home of Danish dairy farmer Peder Christensen (P. C.) Moller and is the oldest residential building in Riverside, built in the 1880s, and was the first dairy farm to deliver milk in Indianapolis. The home was originally a single family home and had only one entrance. The back portion of the house was a 9-room addition added before 1900.

According to the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, only 114 Danes (Danish folks) lived in the city in 1880 and 208 in 1910, “the most successful of these was Carl Moller, owner of a dairy farm and milk delivery business located on present-day Moller Road.”

An obituary for Peter Chris Moller, who died February 3, 1938 lists the Koehne Street address. He was born in Denmark in 1856 and came to the United States in 1882. The obituary lists Carl Moller as one of his sons.