Westleigh Farms | |
Location: | 2107 S. Frances Slocum Trail, east of Peru, Butler Township, Miami County, Indiana |
Coordinates: | 40.735°N -86.005°W |
Built: | c. |
Architecture: | Classical Revival, Gothic Revival |
Added: | September 28, 2003 |
Refnum: | 03000976 |
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.[1]
Westleigh Farms was the childhood home of composer and songwriter Cole Porter.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.