Abram Gaar House and Farm
Original bills of sale for furniture from Mitchell and Rammelsberg Furniture Company in Cincinnati, Ohio are also part of the collection. . She established the non-profit Agnes and Abram Gaar Foundation to assume ownership of the house, its contents and a few outbuildings.The Abram Gaar House and Farm is a Second Empire-style farm home located in Richmond, Indiana built in 1876 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The home was built by industrialist Abram Gaar, president of Gaar-Scott farm machinery company. The Foundation has operated the house as a historic house museum. The home holds a significant collection of Victorian decorative arts including nearly all the original furnishings, some of which were purchased from the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
Hasecoster, the area s leading architect of the day and his original plans are on display at the house today. In the 1970s, Joanna Hill Mikesell, granddaughter of the builder and his wife Agnes restored the home which had remained in her family since it was built. Gaar hired John A.
