James Whitcomb Riley's home in Greenfield, Indiana is a two story clapboard home with a one story addition to the back all with shutters by the windows, a porch that spans the front and two chimneys. There is a plank board fence around the yard. There is an outbuilding in side the fence in the back yard. A sign in the yard by the road reads, "Birthplace and home of the Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley born Oct. 7, 1849."
March 10, 1940 (air date)
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Handwritten on the back, "Retouch to take out lettering on front. James Whitcomb Riley Old Home society."