Shelby County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Shelby County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Shelbyville, Indiana. It was built in 1936-1937, and is a two- to three-story, rectangular, Art Deco style limestone building.”
Wikipedia article Shelby County Courthouse (Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 407 S. Harrison St., Shelby, 46176
When was it listed? December 2011
Category. building
Township. Addison township
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
National Register reference number. 11000917 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Shelby County Courthouse: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Shelby Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer
Indiana Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Shelby Gravel Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Shelby 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
Shelbyville Commercial Historic District	0.1 miles	1984
John Hamilton House	0.2 miles	1979
Messick Masonic Temple	0.2 miles	2024
West Side Historic District	0.3 miles	1990
Lora B. Pearson School	0.4 miles	2009
Porter Pool Bathhouse	0.5 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000917 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shelby County	All 15 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.