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Main Spanish Commercial Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
08001259

Year built
  
1880

Area
  
2 ha

Added to NRHP
  
30 December 2008

Main-Spanish Commercial Historic District

Location
  
Roughly the 100 blocks of Main and Spanish Sts. and adjacent portions of Themis and Independence, Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival, Early Commercial, Moderne

MPS
  
Cape Girardeau, Missouri MPS

Main-Spanish Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. The district encompasses 26 contributing buildings in the central business district of Cape Girardeau. It developed between about 1880 and 1958, and includes representative examples of Italianate, Colonial Revival, Mission Revival, and Streamline Moderne style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Klostermann Block. Other notable buildings are F.W. Woolworth Company (1950), J.C. Penney Company (1928), Kraft Bakery (c. 1884), Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) (1941), and Millikan Motor Co. (1941).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

References

Main-Spanish Commercial Historic District Wikipedia