McCormack-Bowman House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“McCormack-Bowman House is a historic home located in Franklin Township, Hendricks County, Indiana. It was built about 1846, and is a one-story, central passage plan, frame dwelling with Greek Revival style design elements.”
Wikipedia article McCormack-Bowman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Hendricks County · listed in 1995 · 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. McCormack--Bowman House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Rd. 200 W, 0.5 mi. S of jct. with US 40, Clayton, 46118
When was it listed? March 1995
Category. building
Township. Franklin township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 95000200 - 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

7,970 words

This property stands in Franklin Township. History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885; History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1914 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers desckiption, eakly histoitt, fikst sceiools, township officials, fikst election, political history. ^pkopekty and taxation.

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 Franklin Township - 7,970 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clayton, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
August 2016	Tornado (EF1)	Clayton	$18,000	An EF-1 tornado, with maximum winds estimated at 105 mph, caused minor damage to a few farm buildings, rolled a trailer, and uprooted trees.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$15,000	no account filed
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$4,000	A large tree was downed covering the westbound lanes of Highway 40, south of Clayton, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Power lines were downed on both sides of the road.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$3,000	A barn door was blown in near US Highway 40 and Highway 0 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Clayton	$2,000	Several roads were closed around the county because of flooding due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall. Also, White Lick Creek was about a foot out of its banks.
July 2015	Flood	Clayton	$1,000	An estimated 4 inches of water was on the road at the intersection of State Route 39 and York Avenue due to moderate to heavy rainfall.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$250	A 6-inch diameter tree limb was blown down at County Road 100 West and Highway 40 due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2023	Hail	Clayton	-	Thunderstorm hail as large as ping pongs in Clayton.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	A three foot diameter tree was blown down in the roadway near a cemetery.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	A one-foot diameter tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds at County Road 200 West and United States Highway 40.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	Several large limbs were broken. A road was blocked by the debris.
July 2015	Hail	Clayton	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Clayton	-	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Clayton	-	no account filed
July 2003	Flash Flood	Clayton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hendricks 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

5 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
Amo THI & E Interurban Depot/Substation	4.0 miles	2007
Wilson-Courtney House	7.6 miles	1984
Hendricks County Jail and Sheriff's Residence	8.0 miles	1983
Twin Bridges	8.0 miles	2000
Danville Main Street Historic District	8.0 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000200 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hendricks County	All 22 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.