Andrew Brier House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Andrew Brier House, also known as the Brier-Butler House, is a historic home located in Liberty Township, Warren County, Indiana. It was built in 1855, and is a Greek Revival style brick dwelling with a rear wing.”
Wikipedia article Andrew Brier House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 1986 · 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 4 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Brier, Andrew, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Old Hwy. 41, Carbondale, 47993
When was it listed? August 1986
Category. building
Township. Liberty township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 86001617 - 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

3,625 words

This property stands in Liberty 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 Liberty Township - 3,625 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carbondale, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a tool shed and blew grain bins over. Financial damage is estimated.
June 2009	Flash Flood	Carbondale	$500	Flash flooding was observed on County Road 450N near US 41 Highway.
June 2009	Hail	Carbondale	-	Hail up to the size of half dollars were observed along US Highway 41.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to be between 60 and 70 miles per hour at this location. A funnel cloud was also reported.
March 2017	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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

3 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
Van Reed Farmstead	2.4 miles	2015
Warren County Courthouse	5.7 miles	2008
Kent House and Hitchens House	6.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001617 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.

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.