Lost Creek Township, United States
Vigo County Home for Dependent Children
Lost Creek Township, United States
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Located in Lost Creek Township, Vigo County, Indiana, the Vigo County Home for Dependent Children (also known as the Glenn Home) is a Colonial Revival orphanage built in 1903. The main structure is a two-and-a-half-story brick building raised on a basement, distinguished by a hipped and gabled roof and a prominent two-story semicircular portico supported by four Doric columns. Originally serving dependent children, the building now houses the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity chapter at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The property once included a contributing boiler house, now demolished. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
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- orphanage
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- National Register of Historic Places listed place
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- Lost Creek Township, United States
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