{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Knightstown Academy | nrhp_type = cp | nocat = yes | image = Knightstown Academy.jpg | caption = Front of the building | location = Carey St., Knightstown, Indiana | coordinates = {{coord|39|48|0|N|85|31|29|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Indiana#USA | built = 1876<ref name="Trent201098">Trent, Karen Pyle. ''Knightstown''. Arcadia Publishing: Mount Pleasant (2010). {{ISBN|0738578231}}</ref> | architect = John A. Hasecoster<ref name="Trent201098"/> | architecture = Second Empire<ref name="Trent201098"/>{{rp|98}} | added = September 29, 1976 | area = Less than {{convert|1|acre}} | refnum = 76000022<ref name=nris>{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}
The '''Knightstown Academy''' is a historic school building located at Knightstown, Indiana. It was built as a Quaker Academy in 1876 and affiliated with the Society of Friends.<ref name="Trent201098"/> The building is located north of the National Road (US 40) on Cary at Washington Street. The building was designed in Second Empire style.<ref name="Trent201098"/> It has a mansard roof and twin four story towers that are topped by a telescope and a globe. After the building ceased to be used as an academy, it functioned for many years as the local public high school.<ref name="SHAARD">{{cite web| url = https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/welcome.html| title = Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)| publisher = Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology| format = Searchable database| accessdate = 2016-04-01}} ''Note:'' This includes {{cite web| url = https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/16ede/N/Knightstown_Academy_Henry_CO_Nom.pdf| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Knightstown Academy| accessdate = 2016-04-01| author = Mrs. R. Thomas Mayhill| format = PDF| date = July 1975}}{{Dead link|date=June 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and Accompanying photographs.</ref> It is now an apartment building. The attached gymnasium was used as the home court of the Hickory Huskers in the 1985 movie ''Hoosiers''.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.<ref name="nris"/> It is located in Knightstown Historic District.
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==External links== *[http://www.thehoosiergym.com Hoosier Gym] *{{HABS |survey= IN-198 |id=in0250 |title=Knightstown Academy, Carey Street, Knightstown, Henry County, IN |dwgs=12}}
{{National Register of Historic Places in Indiana}}
Category:Historic American Buildings Survey in Indiana Category:School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Category:School buildings completed in 1877 Category:Knightstown, Indiana Category:National Register of Historic Places in Henry County, Indiana Category:Buildings and structures in Henry County, Indiana Category:Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Indiana Category:Buildings with mansard roofs Category:1877 establishments in Indiana