Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
“Kent and Hitchens Housese were a matched pair of historic homes located at Williamsport, Indiana. They were built in 1854, and are two-story, Italian Villa style brick dwellings.”
Wikipedia article Kent and Hitchens Houses, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Washington Township. Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1883 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 Washington Township - 18,986 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kent House and Hitchens House: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Steel Co Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Neal Gravel Co. Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Wabash Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Warren Co. Hwy. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamsport, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 7 flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2006 | Flood | Williamsport | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew roof off apartment building. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | $15,000 | Barn and tree damage across the county caused by thunderstorm wind gusts. The barn was located at this location. |
| February 2007 | Flood | Williamsport | $10,000 | The Wabash River flooded in Warren County. The river remained in flood into March. Crests were over 5 feet above flood stage. |
| January 2007 | Flood | Williamsport | $10,000 | The Wabash River in Warren County flooded during much of January. Crests were as high as 8.8 feet above flood stage. |
| March 2007 | Flood | Williamsport | $10,000 | The Wabash River remained flooded in Warren County from February through March, dipping below flood stage for only brief periods during the month. Crests were nearly 8.5 feet above flood stage. |
| April 2007 | Flood | Williamsport | $5,000 | Flooding returned to the Wabash River in Warren County during late April. The crest reached two and a half feet above flood stage. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | $5,000 | A roof was damaged. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Williamsport | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | $1,000 | Utility lines were blown down near Saint Vincent Williamsport hospital on Ross Avenue, just east of the hospital, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | $1,000 | Several 4 to 6 inch tree limbs were snapped near Oakwood Drive in Williamsport due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This report was relayed by social media. |
| April 2007 | Flood | Williamsport | $1,000 | Flooding continued from March on the Wabash River in Warren County. The crest reached eight and a half feet above flood stage. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | $500 | Trees and power lines blown down. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Williamsport | - | Relayed via social media. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Williamsport | - | Relayed via Twitter. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | - | A gust to 68 mph was measured at the county emergency operations center. Some minor structural damage was reported, but no estimates were available. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | - | Trees were downed. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Flood | Williamsport | - | no account filed |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Warren County Courthouse | 0.5 miles | 2008 |
 | Andrew Brier House | 6.2 miles | 1986 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84001719 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Warren County | All 4 listed properties in this county. |
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