{"nrhp_refnum":"79002238","name":"Breezedale","other_names":["Sutton-Elkin House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus","address_restricted":false,"city":"Indiana","county":"Indiana County","state":"PA","lat":40.61990917400004,"lon":-79.15610191299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-03-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Law","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Breezedale, also called the Sutton-Elkin House, is a two and one-half story Victorian house with Italianate features on the campus of Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1868 for James Sutton.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good example of the Victorian mansion as it applied to small-town architecture of its day. It is also tied to James Sutton, a prominent Indiana citizen and businessman, and to later owner John P. Elkin, a lawyer, legislator and state judge, and the interior alterations made during the Elkin period.","narrative":"Built of red-orange brick in 1868 for James Sutton, a partner in the J. & J. Sutton dry goods business and a founder of the First National Bank of Indiana, this two and one-half story house in Indiana, Pennsylvania, shows Victorian and Italianate design. Its corners are quoined with cut limestone, and it has slate roofs, paired wooden bracketed cornices and an octagonal wooden cupola. Sutton's widow Sarah lived there until 1899, when the Honorable John P. Elkin and his wife Adda Prothero Elkin bought it. Elkin, a lawyer, state legislator and later a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice, made major changes, including a wooden solarium with stained glass, a veranda and a porte cochere, and interior work in parquetry, oak paneling and beveled glass. The house is regarded as a good example of small-town Victorian mansion design. It was later bought by Indiana University of Pennsylvania and converted for university use.","period_of_significance":"1868","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian with Italianate features","criteria":[],"status_note":"Now part of the campus of Indiana University of Pennsylvania; the auxiliary buildings no longer exist and the house is flanked by dormitories.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.532227-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002238.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002238/f0adf1dbdc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002238/f0adf1dbdc-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Sjrplscjnky at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IUP-Breezedale.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Sjrplscjnky at English Wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IUP-Breezedale.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995930","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breezedale","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4960348"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/indiana-county/breezedale-79002238/"}