Portrait inside the Lilly House at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indiana's capital city
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The 22-room mansion, part of the Oldfields Estate, was built between 1909 and 1913 by architect Lewis Ketcham Davis for the family of Hugh McKennan Landon, who occupied the home from 1913 until 1932 when it was sold to Indianapolis businessman, collector, and philanthropist Josiah K. Lilly, Jr. He renovated and expanded the estate throughout the 1930s and 1940s, updating interiors as well as adding a number of new buildings to the grounds. Oldfields also features gardens and grounds designed in the 1920s by Percival Gallagher.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-1).
Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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