John Linsey Rand House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The John (Linsey) Lindsay Rand House is a historic home located at Friendship, Indiana, United States. It is owned by the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association for use as their national headquarters and offices.”
Wikipedia article John Linsey Rand House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Ripley County · listed in 1994 · 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. Rand, John Linsey, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Jct. of IN 62 and Maxine Moss Dr., SW corner, Friendship, 47017
When was it listed? June 1994
Category. building
Township. Brown township
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 94000582 - 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.

Fires near this property

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of John Linsey Rand House in 2004, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 February 2004	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Ripley County

Storms near this property

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Friendship, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 9 flood, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 hail. 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
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$15,000	The roof was ripped off a building and multiple trees were knocked down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$10,000	Large trees were blown down, a large porch was destroyed, and a carport was knocked off its foundation and thrown several yards two miles west of Farmers Retreat.
March 2023	Flood	Friendship	$5,000	Laughery Creek was out of its banks, covering State Route 62. A high water rescue was needed after a vehicle drove into the water.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$3,000	A couple of large tree limbs were downed.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$3,000	Trees were knocked down.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$2,000	Tree limbs were reported down on power lines in the area.
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$2,000	Trees knocked down.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$1,000	A tree was downed across State Route 62 near the intersection with South Cave Hill Road.
September 2018	Flood	Friendship	$1,000	High water along Laughery Creek left several roads impassable. State Route 62 was closed due to high water and two cars were trapped in the high water.
March 2026	Flood	Friendship	-	S Cave Hill Road was closed due to high water for about two miles between S County Road 350 E and IN-62.
February 2025	Flash Flood	Friendship	-	Indiana 62 was closed near Friendship due to high water from Laughery Creek.
April 2024	Flood	Friendship	-	High water was reported on roads in the Friendship area.
February 2022	Flood	Friendship	-	State Route 62 was closed due to high water near Laughery Creek.
June 2019	Flood	Friendship	-	Route 62 remained closed for a significant stretch due to flooding.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Friendship	-	Emergency Management and law enforcement both reported that several roads across the southern half of the county, especially near Friendship, and north of Friendship were impacted due to flash flooding.
September 2018	Flood	Friendship	-	High water was reported across State Route 62.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Friendship	-	The fire department reported roadways with 1.5 feet of water over them. Some low lying roadways had up to six feet of water covering them.
June 2016	Flood	Friendship	-	High water was reported in the Friendship area in normal areas that flood.
September 2016	Flash Flood	Friendship	-	Laughery Creek was reported out of its banks.
September 2016	Flood	Friendship	-	Rising water along Laughery Creek caused flooding over a portion of State Route 62 near Friendship.
October 2016	Hail	Friendship	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Friendship	-	no account filed
March 2010	Hail	Friendship	-	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

1 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
	Friendship Stone Arch Bridge	0.9 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000582 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ripley County	All 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.