Located in the Old Silk Stocking district, the name recalling the time when only wealthy people could afford to wear silk stockings, the Seiberling Mansion near downtown Kokomo is a fantasia of towers, curved windows, slate roofs, rounded brick columns and a wraparound porch topped with a cupola that overlooks the spacious yards below including an overflowing rose garden below.

The home, which took three years to build at a cost of $50,000, was completed in the fall of 1891 and is a melding of architectural styles such as Queen Anne and Romanesque. After the Seiberlings moved out after living there for about three years, it was rented and then bought by the George Kingston family who owned the home from 1914 to 1946 when it was acquired by Indiana University.

Kingston was good friends with Henry Ford and murals in a second floor room, which were covered over by blackboards during the almost three decades that the mansion was used for classes, depict a scene of Ford's wooded cottage as well as fishing in Florida (a favorite hobby of Mr. Kingston) and Pike Creek Falls in nearby Peru, Indiana.