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Brown County Courthouse Historic District

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Built
  
1873 (1873)-1874, 1879

Area
  
4,000 m²

NRHP Reference #
  
83000050

Added to NRHP
  
21 July 1983

Brown County Courthouse Historic District

Location
  
Courthouse, Old Log Jail, and the Historical Society Museum Bldg., Nashville, Indiana

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival, Log Construction

Brown County Courthouse Historic District is a historic courthouse and national historic district located at Nashville, Brown County, Indiana. It encompasses three contributing buildings: the courthouse, Old Log Jail, and the Historical Society Museum Building. The Brown County Courthouse was built in 1873-1874, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style brick building. It has a gable roof and two-tiered, flat-roofed frame tower. The Old Log Jail was built in 1879, and is a small two-story log building. It measures 12 feet by 20 feet, and was used as a jail until 1922. The Historical Society Museum Building, or Brown County Community Building, is a two-story, rectangular log building. It was moved to its present location in 1936-1937. The Works Progress Administration funded the reconstruction and remodeling of the building.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

Brown County Courthouse Historic District Wikipedia