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Mitchell Downtown Historic District

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Architect
  
McGuire & Shook

Area
  
8 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
97001175

Added to NRHP
  
26 September 1997

Mitchell Downtown Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Tenth, oak, Fifth, and N. Mississippi Sts., Mitchell, Indiana

Architectural style
  
Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque

Mitchell Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Mitchell, Lawrence County, Indiana. The district encompasses 75 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Mitchell. It developed between about 1853 and 1946, and includes examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival, and Queen Anne style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Mitchell Opera House. Other notable buildings include the First National Bank Building (1927), Odd Fellows Hall (c. 1925), Jacob Finger Methodist Church (1874, 1925), Dr. William Dings House (c. 1885), Edward Moore House (1894), Bank of Mitchell Building (1897), Fannie Moore Richardson House (1910), Mitchell Public (Carnegie) Library (1917) and Theatorium (c. 1910).

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

References

Mitchell Downtown Historic District Wikipedia