Jeptha Crouch School (Fairfield Twp. No. 6)
| Dates: | 1901/1927/1953/1955/1960 |
| Location: | 3501 Union Street, Lafayette, Indiana |
| Architects: | J. F. Alexander & Son, of Lafayette, Indiana |
| Contractor: | John A. Johnson |
| Cost: | $5,550 |
| addition | 1927, Walter Scholer, architect. |
Jeptha Crouch School, officially Fairfield Township School No. 6, was built in 1901 a few miles east of Lafayette on Union Street. The building originally had a domed octagonal cupola containing a bell on the roof over the entrance. In 1927 a gymnasium was added and the building remodeled. The cupola was replaced by the present pediment and the side windows of the original building were replaced by larger steel-sash windows. A series of additions in the 1950s-1960s preceded the school's closure around 1980. It is occupied for commercial uses today, containing a furniture store and a martial arts school among its tenants.
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| Jeptha Crouch School, 2003. | Detail of limestone pilaster capital. |