Sells-Sullivan residence
SW4 2-15-20

Sells-Sullivan residence
SW4 2-15-20

Reporters agree that in 1865 Elijah Sells acquired the property where this house originally stood at 714 High Street in Baldwin City. The 1977 historic building survey reported that G. Perry Fuller, territorial Indian agent, was the first owner from 1863 to 1865. The house was the home of Rev. John M. Sullivan and his wife Lucy after they arrived in Baldwin in 1877. Lucy Sullivan was elected the town's first woman mayor in 1889 (see B51). In the early twentieth century, the house was used as a residence for the president of Baker University. It was move to the country east of Baldwin in 1980.

Residence, rectangular gable front plan with side entrance, two stories with ony story bay SW, three front bays, wood frame and weatherboard, gable roof. Hipped ell porch, 6/6 double-hung wooden windows, glazed wooden entrance door with head and side lights. Ornamental porch with square posts and projecting caps, flattened arched, scalloped barge board with pendents, brackets and frieze ornamenting side bay. Modern one story addition NW.

Dale Nimz, photographer

Baldwin City Public Library

Fall, 1988

Ledger Centennial Ed. (1920)
Douglas County Historic Building Survey (1977)
Liteer, Self-Guided Tour (1984)

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