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Garth Stroup Home

historic house in Indiana, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ25346066 ↗
Source-derived summary

Garth Stroup House, also known as the Merrifield-Cass House, is a historic home located at Mishawaka, Indiana. The original one-story dwelling was built in 1837, and enlarged to two-stories and one-story wing added in 1867. The frame dwelling exhibits Greek Revival, Federal, and Carpenter Gothic style design elements. It sits on a fieldstone and brick foundation. It features porches with gingerbread trim. The house is thought to be the oldest dwelling in continuing use in Mishawaka.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Garth Stroup Home” is historic house in Indiana, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Garth, Stroup and Home, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1837, 1867, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Garth, Stroup and Home is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25346066. Authority coordinates are 41.661, -86.174. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1837, 1867 and 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Garth Stroup Home” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.