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Gary City Center Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
94001352

Area
  
22 ha

Address
  
Gary, IN 46402, USA

Added to NRHP
  
25 November 1994

Gary City Center Historic District

Location
  
Roughly, Broadway from the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend RR tracks to 9th Ave., Gary, Indiana

Architect
  
Cheney, Howard, et al.; Eberson, John, et al.

Architectural style
  
Tudor Revival, Classical Revival, Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements

Similar
  
Dunbar‑P Middle School, Ambridge Elementary School, Theodore Roosevelt College

Gary City Center Historic District is a national historic district located at Gary, Indiana. The district encompasses 60 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites in Downtown Gary. It developed between about 1906 and 1944 includes notable examples of Tudor Revival, Late Gothic Revival, and Classical Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the City Hall and Superior Courthouse (1927), the second Gary Land Company Building (c. 1907), Olympic Hotel (c. 1928), the "Modern Apartments" (c. 1929), Dalton Apartments (c. 1929), Gary State Bank Building (1929), Hotel Gary (1926), City Methodist Church (1926), YWCA Building (1922), and former U.S. Post Office Building (1936).

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

References

Gary City Center Historic District Wikipedia