Samuel Brown House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“Samuel Brown House, also known as The Brick, is a historic home located in Franklin Township, Putnam County, Indiana. It was built about 1841, and is a one-story, "L"-plan, Greek Revival style brick dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Samuel Brown House (Roachdale, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Putnam County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Brown, Samuel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1558 E. Cty Rd. 1100 N, Roachdale, 46172
When was it listed? June 2006
Category. building
Township. Franklin township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 06000520 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

2,008 words

The chapter on Franklin Township in Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana .., published 1887 names Roachdale. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Roachdale, in the northern part of the township, was laid out in the autumn of 1879, by Elijah Grantham, on the southeast quarter of section 1. It was named in honor of the late Judge Roach, of Indianapolis. The first buildings (a store and a dwelling) were built by Mr. Grantham. Both have been since burned. The first blacksmith shop was built by S. B. Sweeney, who still owns and runs it. The first hotel was begun by William Atkins, of Green castle, and completed by E. Grantham. It is the present McCoy House. The first harness shop was started by its present proprietor, W. 11. Rich. The postoffice was established in 1880. The first livery stable was established in 1882, by J. R. Miller. The first physician was Dr. J. T. Seller, who died in 1884. The village now claims 350 inhabitants, and has two drug and grocery stores, one harness shop, one hardware store, one implement store, one furniture and implement store, one shoe shop, one barber shop, two hotels, one restaurant, three blacksmith shops, two livery stables, one wagon and repair shop, two millinery shops, one flonring-mill, one sawmill, one grain elevator and two physicians. The village is incorporated, and has (in 1887) the following officers: Isaac Edwards (President); J. W. King, J. W. Sutherlin and W.

Passage source: Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana .., published 1887.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Franklin Township - 2,008 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roachdale, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Roachdale	$20,000	A modular home was blown nearly 10 feet off its foundation and into a carport due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Roachdale	$10,000	Numerous medium to large tree limbs downed by thunderstorm wind gusts across Putnam county with most widespread damage near Roachdale. More than 1600 homes were without power.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Roachdale	$10,000	Trees were downed in Roachdale due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. One tree was down on a minivan.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Roachdale	$5,500	Trees and power lines were downed in this location due to a measured 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Roachdale	$500	Large tree limbs from a fairly healthy tree were downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Roachdale	-	A couple of trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Roachdale	-	Damaging thunderstorm winds were measured at North Putnam Middle School.
September 2012	Hail	Roachdale	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Roachdale	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Roachdale	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Roachdale	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Roachdale	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Roachdale	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Roachdale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Putnam County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Roachdale Historic District	2.5 miles	2020
Pine Bluff Covered Bridge	3.1 miles	2024
Rolling Stone Covered Bridge	3.7 miles	2024
Bainbridge Historic District	3.8 miles	2019
Cornstalk Covered Bridge	3.9 miles	2024
James Edington Montgomery O'Hair House	6.9 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000520 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Putnam County	All 33 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.