Designer Show House

A Meridian-Kessler Dining room

I love giving when it benefits many and for a good cause. I have contributed to this Indianapolis not-for-profit benefit many times over the past few decades. This is one of those projects located in the historic Meridian-Kessler neighborhood:

St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild was honored to be a part of the “Year of Vonnegut” by presenting the childhood home of author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. as the organization’s Annual Decorators’ Show House and Gardens.

Julie O’Brien Design Group stepped up, once again, to participate by taking on the dining room. 

The residence was built by the author’s architect father, Kurt Vonnegut Sr., expressly for his own family. They included his wife, Edith Lieber Vonnegut, and their three children, Bernard, Alice, and Kurt Jr. The celebrated author, playwright, artist, lecturer, and humanitarian resided in the home from the time that he was just a few months old until he was 15 years old.

Founded in 1907, St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild is an Indianapolis area volunteer organization supporting the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital, the oldest and largest public health care system in the state.