Courthouse Sq., Franklin, Indiana. County/parish: Johnson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 16, 1981. NRIS 81000017.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing structure. 2 contributing objects.
Johnson County Courthouse Square is a historic courthouse and town square located in Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana. The courthouse was built between 1879 and 1881, and is a two-story, red brick building with elements of Second Empire, Neo-Jacobean, and Romanesque Revival style architecture. It has a low hipped metal roof topped by a central tower and with smaller corner towers topped with pyramidal roofs. It was designed by George W. Bunting, who also designed courthouses at Frankfort (Clinton County) and Anderson (Madison County).: 2
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132003475