Description
Poet 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."