The Sherman, in

Batesville, Indiana Batesville is a city in Franklin and Ripley counties in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 6,520 at the 2010 census, making it the largest community in both counties but is not the county seat of either. The Batesville Casket Company ...

, is a

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and

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with history dating to 1852. Located "in the heart of historic downtown Batesville, a convenient midway meeting point between Indianapolis and Cincinnati, The Sherman is a well-loved locale for the people of the town and an important Indiana landmark." It is about off

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. It is one of Indiana's oldest buildings. It was opened as The Brinkmann House in 1852, and originally was a two-story frame building with clapboard siding. Its owner renamed it in 1865 to Sherman House in recognition of General

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and the 83rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which fought under him in the

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. It was bought by Hillenbrand Industries in 1923, which added four buildings to the property and unified them into one structure by 1933. The work preserved "most of the original timber frame of

yellow poplar ''Liriodendron tulipifera''—known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, and yellow-poplar—is the North American representative of the two-species genus ''Liriodendron'' (the other ...

girders, 30 inches by 90 feet, which were in perfect condition after 80 years. They are still in place." In 2015 the hotel was said to be closing and was put up for sale. In the 1990s, a

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festival was held there every July. After over 160 years of operation, the Sherman House closed on January 12, 2015, according to its

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and local

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reports.Sherman House Closed, http://www.batesvilleheraldtribune.com/news/local_news/sherman-house-has-closed/article_4eaa2964-9aa8-11e4-b5d7-bb00a231c307.html The building, under new management, was remodeled, and had been reopened and renamed The Sherman as of February 2017. It opened a

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in 2019. It was listed by the

National Trust for Historic Preservation The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that works in the field of historic preservation in the United States. The member-supported organization was founded in 1949 by ...

as a member of the

Historic Hotels of America Historic Hotels of America is a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation that was founded in 1989 with 32 charter members; the program accepts nominations and identifies hotels that have maintained their authenticity, sense of pla ...

. In 2022, it is no longer a member.

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