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Butler Community Mausoleum

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Built
  
1914 (1914)

Opened
  
1914

Added to NRHP
  
24 March 2014

NRHP Reference #
  
14000070

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

Butler Community Mausoleum

Location
  
County Road 28 E., east of Butler, Stafford Township, DeKalb County, Indiana

Area
  
less than 1 acre (0.40 ha)

MPS
  
The Early Community Mausoleum Movement in Indiana

Butler Community Mausoleum is a historic mausoleum located in Butler Cemetery near Butler in Stafford Township, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was built in 1914, and is a one-story, limestone structure with a red tile roof and simple Classical Revival style detail. It measures 36 feet wide and 78 feet deep and consists of a tall vestibule section and long nave-like wing with clerestory. At the entrance are flanking Doric order columns. The mausoleum was used for interments into the 1960s.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

References

Butler Community Mausoleum Wikipedia


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