The Brownstown Courthouse Square Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in March 2021. Certain text and research included below was taken from the Nomination Form drafted by Kurt W. Garner.
The Brownstown Courthouse Square Historic District is a small historic commercial area lining Main and Walnut Streets that developed around the Jackson County Courthouse and Public Square. The district features mostly two and three-story brick buildings constructed between about 1880 and 1910, and the courthouse that was reconstructed in 1911. Most of the roughly two dozen buildings are constructed in the Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival or Classical Revival styles. In March 2021, the Brownstown Courthouse Square Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
111 East Walnut Street was built in 1875 by W.G. Ball Builder, of Ewing, IN. The two-story brick building features a cast iron storefront with an entry off-set to the west and a narrow set of wood display windows west of the entry. The restored entry features double doors with a glass transom. The storefront east of the entry has been restored with three large wood display windows with transoms. The cast iron storefront features wide, fluted, pilasters flanking the storefront with a narrower pilaster east of the entry. The pilasters have a rosette and fern motif in their capitals. The second story features a tall, door centered in the façade with a painted stone sill and lintel. The door opening is flanked by Pella historic replacement double hung windows. The windows have painted stone sills and lintels. The top of the façade features a row of recessed panels topped by a row of dentils.
The storefront of 111 East Walnut, originally known as the Walker & Ireland Storehouse in the 1880s, was used for a saloon during the late 1800s into the early 1900s. By 1915, the building became known as the Commercial Hotel. The second story had been used as a lodge hall for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, who built a new hall in 1906 on Main Street. By the middle part of the 20th century, the building became home to Greger Brothers Hardware Store.
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