Lawrenceburg is a city and the county seat of Dearborn County, Indiana, United States. The population was 5,129 at the 2020 census. It is the largest city in Dearborn County. Lawrenceburg is in southeast Indiana, on the Ohio River west of Cincinnati.
Allen Hamilton (1798–1864) was a founding father of Fort Wayne in Allen County, Indiana.
The Thomas Downs House is a historic home located just east of Charlestown, Indiana's town square. It was built about 1809. and is a two-story, four-bay, Federal style brick dwelling. It has a gable roof, sits on a stone foundation, and has a one-story rear ell. Thomas Downs was a politician from Charlestown that was Clark County's first county treasurer. He would later serve as an Indiana Territory legislator. It is owned by the Clark's Grant Historical Society, who has a museum there but offers tours by reservation only.
The Big Run Baptist Church and Cemetery, also known as Franklin Township Historical Society, is a historic Baptist church and cemetery located at 6510 South Franklin Road in Franklin Township, Marion County, Indiana. The church was built in 1871 as a Baptist meeting house and served the church congregation until 1977. It is a one-story, gable front brick building with Italianate style design elements. The associated cemetery was established in 1854, with one stone dated to 1841. The most recent burial was in 1986. Also on the property is a contributing privy constructed about 1920. The Franklin Township Historical Society acquired the property and now uses the building as a historical museum.
Hamline Chapel, United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located at High and Vine Streets in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana. It was built about 1847, and is a one-story, gable front, Greek Revival style brick building on a raised basement. A rear addition was built about 1900 and two-story Sunday School and office addition in the 1950s. The church was renovated in 1979.
Moore's Hill United Methodist Church, also known as Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic Methodist church located at 13476 Main Street in Moores Hill, Dearborn County, Indiana. It was built in 1871, and is a simple one-story, gable front, brick building with Greek Revival and Italianate style design elements. It rests on a limestone foundation and has four Doric order pilasters on the front facade.
Jerolaman-Long House, also known as the Long Home Museum & Cabin, is a historic home located at 1004 E. Market Street, Logansport, Cass County, Indiana. It was built about 1853, and is a two-story, three-bay, Italianate style brick dwelling. It has a two-story brick rear ell added about 1890. Both sections have low hipped roofs and sit on raised ashlar foundations. The building has housed a Cass County Historical Society Museum since 1963.
The Pollard-Nelson House is a historic home in Logansport, Cass County, Indiana. It was built in 1845 and enlarged in 1889 and 1910. It is a two-story, seven bay, Greek Revival style brick dwelling with flanking two-story wings and rear additions. It has a gable roof and features a two-story, projecting front portico supported by Doric order columns.
US Post Office-Brazil is a historic post office building located at Brazil, Clay County, Indiana. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James Knox Taylor and built in 1911–1913 in the Classical Revival style. It is a two-story, brick building over a raised granite faced basement. The front facade features a blind colonnade with six Tuscan order columns of Indiana limestone. It has a hipped roof hidden from view by a parapet.
William Proctor House is a historic home located in Liberty Township, Crawford County, Indiana. It was built about 1832, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal style brick dwelling. It has a gable roof with end chimneys. The house has later rear additions. The property is owned by the Crawford County Historical Society.
Levi Stevens House, also known as the Stevens-Thatcher-Crosson House, is a historic home located at Aurora, Dearborn County, Indiana. It was built in 1849, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style 2/3 I-house. It has an "L"-shaped plan, sits on a rough cut limestone foundation, and has a low side gable roof. It has a one-story rear kitchen addition.
Dearborn County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana. It was built in 1870–71, and is a three-story, five-bay, Greek Revival style building constructed of limestone. It features a three-bay pedimented portico with four fluted columns with Corinthian order capitals.
Daniel S. Major House is a historic home located at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana. It was built between 1857 and 1860, and is a two-story, rectangular, Italianate style brick dwelling. It has an ashlar stone foundation, low hipped roof, polygonal bay windows, and a two-story service wing.
Veraestau is a historic home located in Center Township, Dearborn County, Indiana. It was built in 1838, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style brick and frame dwelling. It incorporates an earlier brick extension to the original 1810 log cabin that burned in 1838. A two-story addition was built in 1913, and a three-room brick addition to it in 1937. Also on the property are the contributing stable and carriage house (1937), Indian mound, family cemetery, and the remains of a kiln. The original house was built by Jesse Lynch Holman (1784-1842). Veraestau was also the birthplace of his son Congressman William S. Holman (1822-1897) and home of his son-in-law Allen Hamilton (1798–1864), who built the 1838 house.
Dearborn County Asylum for the Poor, also known as the Dearborn County Home, is a historic poor house located in Manchester Township, Dearborn County, Indiana. It was built in 1882, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, cruciform plan, Late Victorian style brick building. It sits on a dressed limestone foundation and houses 64 rooms. Also on the property is a contributing smokehouse. The Asylum closed in 1980.
Carnegie Hall of Moores Hill College, also known as Moores Hill High School, is a historic educational building located at Moores Hill, Dearborn County, Indiana. It was built in 1907, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, "T"-plan, brick building with Collegiate Gothic and Jacobethan Revival style design elements. It sits on a raised limestone faced basement. The building consists of a central portion flanked by projecting wings bisected by a central bell tower with pyramidal roof. It features a steeply pitched gable roof, parapeted gables, terra cotta trim, and pointed arch openings. The building housed Moores Hill College until 1917, when it moved to Evansville to later become the University of Evansville. It was funded in part by Andrew Carnegie, who donated $18,750 to its construction. It later housed the local high school and elementary school until 1987.
Downtown Lawrenceburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana. The district encompasses 257 contributing buildings and 2 contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Lawrenceburg. The district developed between about 1815 and 1900, and includes notable examples of Late Victorian, Federal, and Greek Revival style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Dearborn County Courthouse and Hamline Chapel United Methodist Church. Other notable buildings include the Trade and Industrial Building (1881), Lawrenceburg Theater (1875), Jesse Hunt Hotel (1818), the birthplaces of James B. Eads and Louis Skidmore.
William N. Thompson House, also known as Old Governor's Mansion, is a historic home located at Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. It was built in 1920, and is Georgian Revival style buff-colored brick mansion. It consists of a two-story, five-bay, central section flanked by one-story wings. It has a slate hipped roof and features a full width front porch and an elliptical portico at the main entry. The house served as the Governor's Mansion from 1945 to 1970.
Christamore House is a historic settlement house associated with Butler University and located at Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. It was built between 1924 and 1926, and is 2+1⁄2-story, U-shaped, Georgian Revival style brick mansion. It consists of a two-story, five-bay, central section flanked by one-story wings. It has a slate hipped roof and is nine bays wide, with a three-bay central pavilion. The building features large round-arched windows and contains an auditorium and a gymnasium.
Louis Levey Mansion, also known as the Pilgrim Life Insurance Company Building, is a historic home located at Indianapolis, Indiana. It was built in 1905, and is a two-story, Italian Renaissance style limestone dwelling consisting of a three bay by four bay main block with a one bay by two bay rear block. It has a semicircular bay on the rear facade. The front facade features a round arched entrance flanked by pilasters and the roof is ringed by a balustrade. The house was converted for commercial uses in the 1950s.
