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Rush County Courthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Rush County Courthouse, July 2019
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Location	Courthouse Sq., Rushville, Indiana
Coordinates	39°36′28″N 85°26′39″W / 39.60778°N 85.44417°W / 39.60778; -85.44417
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1896 (1896)
Architectural style	Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	75000048
Added to NRHP	October 10, 1975

Rush County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Rushville, Rush County, Indiana. It was designed by the architectural firm of A. W. Rush & Sons of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was built in 1896, and is a 3+1⁄2-story, steel frame building sheathed in rock faced stone in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The irregularly shaped building has four towers at each end of the building with pyramidal roofs. It features a 196-foot tall clock tower with a pyramidal roof and conical turrets.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Court House Bids". Rushville Republican (Rushville, Indiana). 6 March 1896.
3. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-06-01. Note: This includes Paul W. Barada (July 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Rush County Courthouse" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-06-01. and Accompanying photographs.

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