Rakestraw House

LocationCounty Road 19, northeast of Garrett, Keyser Township, DeKalb County, Indiana

Coordinates41°22′11″N 85°5′54″W / 41.36972°N 85.09833°W / 41.36972; -85.09833

Arealess than one acre

Builtc. 1915 (1915)

Rakestraw House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Rakestraw House, May 2012
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Location	County Road 19, northeast of Garrett, Keyser Township, DeKalb County, Indiana
Coordinates	41°22′11″N 85°5′54″W / 41.36972°N 85.09833°W / 41.36972; -85.09833
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1915 (1915)
Architectural style	Craftsman Bungalow
MPS	Keyser Township MRA
NRHP reference No.	83000024[1]
Added to NRHP	May 6, 1983

Rakestraw House is a historic home located near Garrett in Keyser Township, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was built about 1915, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, Bungalow / American Craftsman style frame dwelling. It has a low pitched gable roof and large shed roofed dormer. In 1880, decades before the house was built, Amos Rakestraw used this property as farmland. The Rakestraw family owned the home until the 1950s.^{[2]: Part 1, p. 25}

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^[1]