title: Koester/Patburg House
text: # Koester/Patburg House
  
  Koester/Patburg House is a historic home located at Evansville, Indiana. It was built in 1873–1874, and is a two-story, rectangular, Italianate style brick dwelling. It has a low-pitched front gable roof and features a bracketed cornice and paneled frieze and original slatted shutters. It has a porch and porte cochere added in the 1920s. It was originally built as the country home of a wholesale $grocer.^{:2–3}$
  
  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
  
  