512 N Wabash Ave, Evansville, IN 47712

The prolific nature of the Arts and Crafts style provides architectural influence on new home builds to this day. A rebuke to the excessive ornamentation of the Victorian home styles, the Craftsman style focused on the simplicity of fine craftsmanship and introduced simpler design profiles throughout the home. The Edward Johnstone house designed by Clifford Shopbell at 512 N Wabash Avenue, with its heavy, pronounced front porch, cross gabled roof, and immaculate woodwork, is a pinnacle original example in Evansville - an Arts and Crafts masterpiece - and is on the market after a patient, thorough, and respectfully executed renovation. Built in 1911, the home is an impressively early example of the style. Its completion garnered media attention across the city - potentially influencing Mayor Benjamin Bosseâs decision to build a Prairie School Arts and Crafts masterpiece five years later. The homeâs interior is straight out of a Craftsman style textbook, with Mission styled Inglenooks on each side of the fireplace, box beamed ceilings, picture rail, plate rail in the dining room, and built-ins beneath the trademark tapered columns between the living and dining areas. The home features the original butlerâs pantry, an expansive kitchen open to a breakfast nook and mudroom, a bedroom recently used as a TV room, a full bath in the hall, and another bedroom with a second full bath ensuite. Upstairs, replicated Craftsman woodwork graces the expansive second floor renovation finished in 2015, complete with a 3rd bedroom, transom windows, 5 panel doors, landing office area with built-in shelving and desk, and a massive 490sf master suite with sitting area, full bath, and a stunning custom walk-in closet with exposed brickwork. A home of unmatched stylistic stature in our market. A home featured on the Evansville Philharmonicâs Historic Homes of Note Tour in 2015. A home with its original blueprints. A home just a short stroll from West Franklin Street, the West Branch Carnegie Library, the Franklin Street Bazaar, and the healthiest neighborhood urban corridor scene in the State of Indiana. This homeâs masterpiece Craftsman story is not over - will it continue with you?