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Columbia City Historic District (Columbia City, Indiana)

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NRHP Reference #
  
87001307

Added to NRHP
  
22 June 1987

Area
  
40 ha

Columbia City Historic District (Columbia City, Indiana)

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Jefferson, Walnut, Ellsworth, Wayne, and N. Chauncy Sts., Columbia City, Indiana

Architectural style
  
Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian

Columbia City Historic District is a national historic district located at Columbia City, Whitley County, Indiana. The district encompasses 197 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Columbia City. It developed between about 1840 and 1937 and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Second Empire, Classical Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Whitley County Courthouse. Other notable contributing buildings include the former Whitley County Courthouse (1841), Adams Y. Hooper Residence (c. 1860), Thomas Shorb Residence (c. 1875), William McNagny Residence (c. 1880), Elisha L. McLallen House (1905), Whitley County Jail (1875), City Hall (1917), Peabody (Carnegie) Library (1919), U.S. Post Office (1935), Central Building (1872), D.B. Clugston Block (1889), Masonic Temple (1904), Church of the Brethren (1889), Presbyterian Church (1892), Methodist Church (1912), and Baptist Church (1917).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

References

Columbia City Historic District (Columbia City, Indiana) Wikipedia