Richey House - Martinsville, Indiana - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

The Richey house is a one-and- a-half story, wood frame house with a front-gable roof. The house is sided in clapboards. The entry is in the westernmost bay of the principal (south) facade. It consists of a paneled wood and glass door with a transom. First floor windows are double-hung, wood, with one light in each sash. In the upper story of the front gable is a pair of multi-light doors. The most distinctive feature of the house is the arched, bracketed, scroll-sawn porch, which extends the width of the main facade. (The balustrade was added recently, but the posts and brackets are original.) There is an additional wood porch on the rear of the west side of the house. Various additions have been built on the back of the house over the years. A recently-constructed garage sits at the rear of the property. The house has been painted in a scheme which dates from the era in which it was constructed: pale yellow with avocado and salmon trim.

The house was built by Dr. Elijah Parks Richey and his wife Emma. Later owners included J. Sanders and Gaither Wilhite, owners of a funeral home on East Harrison Street. The Wilhites, who lived in the house around the turn-of-the-century, added a sleeping porch and an apartment. Following the sale to other owners the house was divided up into apartments and fell into severe disrepair. Paul and Dorothy Shirley bought the house and rehabilitated it in recent years. The current owners are Joe and Sharon Mills. The Mills added the garage at the rear of the property.