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).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132003475