Thomas Downs House

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Downs, Thomas, House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location: Charlestown, Indiana
Coordinates: 38°26′39.89″N 85°39′34.57″W / 38.4444139, -85.6596028Coordinates: 38°26′39.89″N 85°39′34.57″W / 38.4444139, -85.6596028
Built/Founded: 1809
Architect: unknown
Architectural style(s): Federal
Added to NRHP: December 06, 1984
NRHP Reference#: 84000490 [1]
Governing body: Clark's Grant Historical Society

The Thomas Downs House is located just east of Charlestown, Indiana's town square. It was built in 1809. It made the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Thomas Downs was a politician from Charlestown that was Clark County's first county treasurer. He would later serve as an Indiana Territory legislator.[2]


It is owned by the Clark's Grant Historical Society, who has a museum there but offers tours by reservation only.

[edit] References

  1. ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
  2. ^ Kramer, Carl. This Place We Call Home (Indiana University Press, 2007) p.39)
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