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Institutional and Private LibrariesOldfields Library (Lilly House)%u2014%u2014Indianapolis, IndianaErected for Hugh McKennan Landon, sold to Josiah K. Lilly Jr. in 1933, and now part of the campus of Newfields (Indianapolis Museum of Art).Oldfields (also known as the Lilly House and Gardens) was built between 1909 and 1913 by architect Lewis Ketcham Davis for the family of Hugh McKennan Landon, who occupied the home from 1913 until 1932 when it was sold to Josiah K. Lilly Jr. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Lilly renovated and expanded the estate by updating the interior and adding a number of new buildings to the grounds.Even into the 1950s, Lilly continued to redecorate rooms. Bookshelves were removed and walls repainted in order to make space for his portrait collection. Muralist Douglas Riseborough was hired to update the stair hall and the loggia with murals depicting the surrounding grounds and gardens.Following the deaths of Lilly (1965) and his wife Ruth (1966), the 26-acre Oldfields estate was given to the Art Association of Indianapolis by Lilly%u2019s two children, Ruth and Josiah Jr. (Joe) in 1967. It now comprises a significant portion of Newfields (previously the Indianapolis Museum of Art) campus.The museum referred to the house as the %u201cLilly Pavilion of Decorative Arts%u201d and used it as an exhibit space, with a focus on decorative arts, rather than the historic aspects of the home and garden. Then, beginning in the 1980s, planning began to restore Oldfields to the condition it was in when occupied by the Lilly family. In 2002, it was reopened to the publicOldfields was designated a United States National Historic Landmark in 2003. Its gardens and grounds are a rare example of a preserved estate landscape designed by Percival Gallagher of the Olmsted Brothers firm.