{"id":380,"date":"2016-03-04T17:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T17:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.debsfoundation.org\/?page_id=380"},"modified":"2016-03-24T09:27:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T14:27:12","slug":"history-of-the-debs-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/landing\/debs-biography\/history-of-the-debs-home\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Debs Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Eugene V. Debs Home is a National Historic Landmark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

History Of Debs Home<\/h2>\n

1890<\/b> \u2014 House completed at cost of $4,500 on present site and moved into by Kate and Eugene Debs. This was their home until Debs died.
\n1916-17<\/b> \u2014 Old wooden front porch removed and replaced by present brick and concrete porch.
\n1936<\/b> \u2014 Mrs. Debs died and most of Debs household effects given to relatives under the will of Mrs. Debs.
\n1938<\/b> \u2014 House purchased by Prof. John Shannon of Indiana State College and his wife Ester.
\n1948<\/b> \u2014 House sold by Prof. Shannon to Tau Sigma Alpha fraternity which covered the weatherboarding with cedar shingles.
\n1961<\/b> \u2014 House bought by J. Bruce Bindley from fraternity.
\nJan. 16, 1962<\/b> \u2014 House purchased by contractor William Heck who remodeled it into small apartments.
\nMay 22, 1962<\/b> \u2014 House purchased by Eugene V. Debs Foundation from Heck for $9,500 and the work of making it into a Debs Memorial was started.
\n1965<\/b> \u2014 Made an official historic site of state of Indiana by Indiana General Assembly.
\n1966<\/b> \u2014 Made an official National Historic Landmark of the National Parks system of the Department of Interior of the United States with this status, the preservation of the property is monitored regularly by the National Park Service, and it is protected from seizure by right of eminent domain.
\n1977<\/b> \u2014 Now a national shrine and visited by hundreds yearly.
\n1989<\/b> \u2014 The 100 year old slate shingle roof was replaced at the cost of $25,000.
\n1993<\/b> \u2014 An Indiana State Historical Marker was erected to provide an attractive identification of the state historical site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

History Of Debs Home 1890 \u2014 House completed at cost of $4,500 on present site and moved into by Kate and Eugene Debs. This was their home until Debs died. 1916-17 \u2014 Old wooden front porch removed and replaced by present brick and concrete porch. 1936 \u2014 Mrs. Debs died and most of Debs household […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-380","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions\/624"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}