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Photograph of Milan Masonic Lodge No. 31
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Milan Masonic Lodge No. 31

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Milan Masonic Lodge No. 31 is a historic Masonic lodge located at Milan, Indiana. It was built in 1900, and is a two-story, brick building with modest Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne style design elements.”

Wikipedia article Milan Masonic Lodge No. 31, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Ripley County · listed in 2013 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 312 Main St., Milan, 47031
  • When was it listed? January 2013
  • Category. building
  • Township. Franklin township
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 12001155 - 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.

Storms near this property

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milan, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flood, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMilan$25,000Several trees were downed in the Milan area, including one that fell onto a house and another that fell onto a truck.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMilan$10,000A tree was downed and fell onto a residence, causing damage.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindMilan$10,000Scattered trees were reported down across the eastern portions of Ripley County due to thunderstorm winds. Some of these trees fell on roadways and knocked down power lines.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindMilan$10,000A roof was blown off of a house near Milan. Numerous trees were downed across the northern part of the county.
January 1997Thunderstorm WindMilan$10,000no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodMilan$10,000no account filed
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMilan$5,000Several large trees were downed.
March 2008FloodOld Milan$5,000Old Milan Road was flooded and closed between Roads 500E and 700N. Other roads were flooded across the county.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindOld Milan$4,000An outbuilding had some roof paneling blown off.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindOld Milan$4,000Some trees were downed along with a few power poles and lines.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOld Milan$4,000A tree fell onto a power line.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindOld Milan$4,000Multiple trees were knocked down over a road. The largest was 2 feet in diameter.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindMilan$4,000Numerous shingles were torn off of a roof due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindMilan$3,000A few trees were downed onto State Route 101.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMilan$3,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMilan$2,000Two trees were snapped in half due to thunderstorm winds.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMilan$1,200A large tree was downed across State Route 350 near the 400 block of W Indian Trail.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMilan$1,000A large tree was downed at the intersection of State Highway 101 and East County Road 200 North.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindMilan$1,000no account filed
July 2024FloodOld Milan-High water partially flooded a roadway.
May 2021FloodOld Milan-High water was reported across County Road 750 N between 600 E and Old Milan Road.
January 2019FloodOld Milan-High water was reported over East County Road 800 North to the west of North Spades Road.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindMilan-The gust was measured by a home weather station.
June 2013Heavy RainMilan-Ponding of water on roads around 8 to 10 inches deep was occurring in the area of Milan due to heavy rainfall.
May 2021HailMilan-no account filed
March 2017HailOld Milan-no account filed
May 2002HailMilan-no account filed
November 2002HailMilan-no account filed
April 1995HailMilan-no account filed
April 1995HailMilan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ripley 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Busching Covered Bridge7.0 miles2019
Fernando G. Taylor House7.4 miles1986
Ripley County Courthouse7.5 miles2009
Versailles Courthouse Square Historic District7.5 miles2024
Tyson United Methodist Church7.6 miles1994
Versailles School and Tyson Auditorium7.6 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12001155 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ripley CountyAll 17 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.