Indiana Landmark's Press Announcement for Outstanding Preservation Award
The Howard School Restoration Group won an Outstanding Restoration Award for rescuing and transforming the one-room brick schoolhouse in rural Boone County. Built in 1881 in a simple form of the Italianate style, it served as a school until 1916. Four brick walls were all that remained after nearly a century without use. A band of volunteers formed a nonprofit in 2003 to restore the building. The Howard School Restoration Group partners with the school corporation, bringing today’s kids out to experience what life was like in an 1880s school. Bill Coan, Jack Belcher, and other board members accepted the award.
March 2010
The Indiana Historic Preservation Award for Outstanding Restoration Effort
to Save and Preserve Howard School
from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archeology
September 2009
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
August 2011
Outstanding Restoration Award from the Indiana Landmarks
Howard School's National Register Listing
Enter Resource Name: Howard School - State: Indiana
The Howard School was honored with the presentation of a framed National Register of Historic Places certification by Indiana Department of Natural Resources Senior Architectural Historian Paul C. Diebold.
2007
Listed on the Indiana Register of Historic Sites and Structures
You can see the listing by signing into the SHAARD database.
Use these instructions:
Enter as a Guest - Accept Conditions - Select Survey: National Register - Select County: Boone - Historic Name: Howard School
Howard School House @ 2013
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