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Photograph of Howard School
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Howard School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Howard School, also known as Perry Township School #1, is a historic school building located at Perry Township, Boone County, Indiana. It was built about 1881, and is a one-story, rectangular red brick building with Italianate style design elements.”

Wikipedia article Howard School (Brownsburg, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 2009 · 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.
  • Address. 4555 E. Co. Rd. 750 S., Brownsburg, 46112
  • When was it listed? September 2009
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Indiana's Public Common and High Schools MPS
  • Township. Perry township
  • National Register reference number. 09000754 - 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.

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

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Traders Point Hunt Rural Historic District3.1 miles2009
Brock, Pryor Farmstead4.9 miles2008
Maplelawn Farmstead5.4 miles2011
Town Hall (Castle Hall)6.6 miles1983
Simpson-Breedlove House7.6 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000754 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boone CountyAll 13 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.