Archaeological Mitigation for the North Side Parking Lots at the Wylie House Museum (12Mo1310), Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana

Abstract

The Wylie House Museum (12Mo1310) of Bloomington, IN was the resident of Indiana University’s (IU) first president Andrew Wylie. The site is located in the SW ¼ of the NW ¼ of Section 4, Township 8 North, Range 1 West in Monroe County. It is currently a National Registry property (NR-0047, IHSSI 105-055-80110) and a museum managed by the IU Libraries. On 7-8 of November 2018, IU Facility Operations used heavy machinery to excavate two new parking lot pads (Parking Lots A and B) along the north side of the Wylie House Museum property (Figures 3-13). An archaeologist from IU’s Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology (GBL) was on site monitoring earth moving (Permit # 2018046). Few historic late 19th and early 20th century artifacts were encountered and three late historic/modern disturbance anomalies were identified. No further archaeological mitigation was recommended in the project area in advance of gravel being placed on top of both Parking Lot A and B and an additional concrete pad poured over Parking Lot A.