John Badlam Howe Mansion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“John Badlam Howe Mansion is a historic home located on the grounds of Howe Military School, in Howe, Indiana. It was built in 1875-1876, and is a two-story, Italianate style white brick building trimmed with stone and terra cotta.”
Wikipedia article John Badlam Howe Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for LaGrange 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. Howe, John Badlam, Mansion - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W. Union St., Howe, 46746
When was it listed? September 1995
Category. building
Township. Lima township
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number. 95001106 - 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

448 words

This property stands in Lima Township. Illustrated Historical Atlas of LaGrange County, Indiana., published 1874 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 Lima Township - 448 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of John Badlam Howe Mansion in 2019, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
10 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TRI-TOWNSHIP FD 000285 - 2019
8 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	STURGIS CITY FD 190068 - 2019

Every fire recorded in LaGrange 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

6 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
St. James Memorial Chapel	under 500 feet	2001
Samuel P. Williams House	0.3 miles	1980
Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District	1.8 miles	1995
La Grange County Courthouse	5.5 miles	1980
Bloomfield Township Graded School	6.5 miles	2022
Olde Store (John O'Ferrell Store)	7.9 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001106 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
LaGrange County	All 10 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.