Henry F. Whitelock House and Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Whitelock House and Farm is an historic home and farm located in Harrison Township, Henry County, Indiana. The house was built between 1836 and 1854, and is a T-shaped vernacular Greek Revival style frame dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Henry F. Whitelock House and Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 1983 · 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.
Listed as. Whitelock, Henry F., House and Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. IN 38, Shirley, 47384
When was it listed? December 1983
Category. building
Township. Harrison township
National Register reference number. 83003565 - 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

13,229 words

This property stands in Harrison Township. Henry County; Past and Present: a Brief History of the County from 1821 to 1871, published 1871; History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Harrison Township - 13,229 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Middletown Commercial Historic District	6.3 miles	2010
	John W. Hedrick House	6.5 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003565 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Henry County	All 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.