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Skiles Test – The man. Born Oct. 19, 1889. He grew up at 795 Middle Drive, Woodruff Place on the east side of Indianapolis. He graduated from Manual High School in June, 1908. He married Josephine Madelyn Benges July 11, 1913.
- - The House of Blue Lights
In Indianapolis, the legends of Skiles Test’s “House of Blue...
- - The House of Blue Lights
29 paź 2013 · Author and a former farmhand of Skiles Test, Garry Ledbetter, thinks it was closer to World War II. Skiles loved the color blue. He put up blue lights each Christmas and hung blue bug-zapping lights around his enormous swimming pool.
Millionaire Skiles Edward Test was president of Indianapolis Motor Inns, part-owner of the Test Building on Monument Circle, and heir to the Diamond Chain Company fortune. In 1913, he bought the farmhouse at 6700 Fall Creek Road as a home for himself and his first wife.
The House Of Blue Lights was the name given to a house on the far northeast side of Indianapolis, Indiana, US. Decorated year round with blue Christmas lights, it was actually the home of eccentric Indianapolis millionaire Skiles Edward Test. [1]
MEMORIES OF SKILES TEST AND THE HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS By: Patricia Brinkman Hicks My connection to the northside Indianapolis estate known as The House of Blue Lights, owned by the late Skiles E. Test is that Mr. Test was my father’s employer.
In Indianapolis, the legends of Skiles Test’s “House of Blue Lights” became the biggest urban legend in the entire state of Indiana. But what was the real story? Was it true he had his dead wife in a casket?
Skiles Test (10/19/1889-3/19/1964) When he died in 1964 he was survived by two ex-wives, his third wife, another “love of his life” with whom he’d spent much of at least his waking hours his last 25 years, and the myth of a lady in a glass casket somewhere in his House of Blue Lights.
