Hoosier artist D. Omar “Salty” Seamon created this lovely print entitled “Old Markle House” in 1981. We have actually acquired 3 of these! We bought the first from eBay when we first learned of it’s existence. The second we found at an antique store booth and just couldn’t pass up. Along with it came a nice conversation with the nice couple that sold it to us, where we could share our mutual love of all things old and historic. Our most recent copy of the print (the one pictured here) was given to us by the sweetest little lady who left a note in our mailbox. She told us she had owned it for years and it hung proudly in her home near Sandcut until she needed to downsize to a smaller home. She wondered if we might give it a new place to live inside the walls of the very house it represents. I just love these encounters and conversations with people in the community who value history and art, and keeping both alive!
I wonder some things about this depiction of the house. I love seeing it in red brick. The brick beneath the white paint is, indeed, this color. I have come across some historical society documents, however, that indicate that the house was painted white very shortly after it’s construction. Did Mr. Seamon just envision what it would look like if it weren’t painted? We do know that the home served as a stagecoach stop, so I Iove the horse and carriage out front with the hitching post and steps. We recently purchase a big dinner bell. It needs a little restoration, and I have no idea if one actually stood at the southeast corner of the house at one time – but I agree with Salty that it looks perfect there! I would have thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to have met Mr. Seamon and discussed this painting with him.
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The Markle House 
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[…] We immediately purchased “The Old Markle House” by D. Omer “Salty” Seamon (see post). Since then, I have become quite a fan of Salty’s work, which largly depicts Indiana homes, […]
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I just bought one of these prints and I love it. What a wonderful story .
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