The Republic (Columbus, Indiana)

The Republic
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Republic offices in Columbus, December 2011
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Location	333 Second St., Columbus, Indiana
Coordinates	39°12′00″N 85°55′18″W / 39.20000°N 85.92167°W / 39.20000; -85.92167Coordinates: 39°12′00″N 85°55′18″W / 39.20000°N 85.92167°W / 39.20000; -85.92167
Area	2.13 acres (0.86 ha)
Built	1971 (1971)
Built by	Dunlap & Company
Architect	Goldsmith, Myron; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Architectural style	Modern Movement, International Style
MPS	Modernism in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, and Art in Bartholomew County, 1942-1965 MPS
NRHP Reference #	12001015
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 16, 2012
Designated NHL	October 16, 2012

The Republic is an American daily newspaper published in Columbus, Indiana. It is owned by AIM Media Indiana, a subsidiary of AIM Media.

It covers the city of Columbus and several nearby communities in Bartholomew and Jennings counties.

Isaac T. Brown founded The Columbus Republican, a weekly newspaper, in 1872. The first issue was published on Thursday, April 4, 1872. Isaac's father, Isaac M. Brown, served as the newspaper's editor during some of the early years. The Browns converted their newspaper to daily publication November 12, 1877, under the name Daily Evening Republican. The newspaper's name was shortened to The Republic in January 1967.

Isaac T. Brown died in 1917, leaving his son Raymond Brown in sole control of the newspaper. It stayed in the Brown family until its owner at the time, Home News Enterprises, a partnership established by Brown family members in 1994, sold to AIM Media Indiana in November 2015.

Over the past 50 years, The Republic has become the flagship newspaper of a chain of dailies and weeklies in Indiana, including several that adjoin The Republic's coverage area. Robert N. Brown, Raymond's son, in 1963 founded the Daily Journal in Johnson County, which borders Bartholomew County to the north. The company expanded its footprint in the Columbus area twice more in the 21st century, purchasing the weekly Brown County Democrat in 2002, and The Tribune daily in Jackson County (immediately south of Bartholomew County) in 2012.

The Republic newspaper plant and offices in Columbus was designed by noted architect Myron Goldsmith (1918-1996) and built in 1971. It is a steel frame and brick Modern Movement style building with a glass and white aluminum curtain wall with some aluminum panels. The rectangular, one-story building measures 248 feet by 93 feet, sits on a low concrete foundation, and has a flat roof.