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.
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