Photograph of Old Franklin United Brethren Church — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Franklin United Brethren Church, Old

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Old Franklin United Brethren Church, now known as Old Franklin Community Christian Church, is a historic United Brethren church located at Fairfield Township, Franklin County, Indiana. It was built in 1831, and is a one-story, five-bay, Federal style brick building.”
Wikipedia article Old Franklin United Brethren Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Franklin 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Franklin Church Rd. and IN 101, .5 mi. N of Fox Run Rd., Brookeville, 47012
When was it listed? March 1995
Category. building
Township. Fairfield township
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 95000201 - 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

5,732 words

This property stands in Fairfield Township. History of Franklin County, Indiana : Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915 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 Fairfield Township - 5,732 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

4 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
Joseph Shafer Farm	4.3 miles	1982
Hermitage, The	6.5 miles	2004
Brookville Historic District	6.6 miles	1975
Franklin County Seminary	6.8 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000201 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin 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.