2107 S. Frances Slocum Trail, Peru, Indiana. County/parish: Miami.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 28, 2003. NRIS 03000976.
8 contributing buildings. 1 contributing object.
Westleigh Farms is a historic home and farm located in Butler Township, Miami County, Indiana. The farmhouse, known as the Porter-Cole House, was built about 1913, It is an asymmetrical two-story, brick dwelling in the Classical Revival style. The other main building is an imposing gambrel roof traverse frame barn over a basement (c. 1913). Also on the property are the contributing power house / garage, calving barn / shop, brick tenant's house, and summer kitchen.: 5
Westleigh Farms was the childhood home of composer and songwriter Cole Porter.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132004174