The Thomas Downs House is a historic home located just east of
Charlestown, Indiana's town square. It was built about 1809. and is a two-story, four-bay,
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style brick dwelling. It has a gable roof, sits on a stone foundation, and has a one-story rear ell. Thomas Downs was a politician from Charlestown that was
Clark County's first county treasurer. He would later serve as an Indiana Territory legislator.
[ ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs.][Kramer, Carl. ''This Place We Call Home'' (Indiana University Press, 2007) p. 39)] It is owned by the Clark's Grant Historical Society, who has a museum there but offers tours by reservation only.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1984.
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Charlestown, Indiana
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana
Federal architecture in Indiana
Houses completed in 1809
Houses in Clark County, Indiana
National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Indiana
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