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New Albany Downtown Historic District (Indiana)

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Architect
  
Pugh, Hugh; et.al.

NRHP Reference #
  
99001074

Year built
  
1937

Architectural style
  
Italianate, Federal

Area
  
20 ha

Added to NRHP
  
3 September 1999

New Albany Downtown Historic District (Indiana) httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
Roughly between W. First St., and E. Fifth St.,; W. Main St. to E. Spring St., New Albany, Indiana

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The New Albany Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at New Albany, Indiana. The general area is W. First Street to the west, Spring St. to the north, E. Fifth Street to the east, and Main Street to the south. The local specification of the district is between East Fifth Street to West Fifth Street, Culbertson Street to the north, and the Ohio River to the south. East Spring Street Historic District is immediately east of the area, and the Main Street section of the Mansion Row Historic District starts. The area includes the Scribner House, where the founders of New Albany lived. It is also the focal area of the Harvest Homecoming Festival every October.

Architectural styles vary, including Beaux-Arts, Chicago Commercial, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Neoclassical, and Renaissance Revival. Prominent buildings in the district include:

  • Elsby Building (1916, Neoclassical)
  • Firestone Building (1937, Art Moderne)
  • New Albany Carnegie Library (1902): Now the Carnegie Center for Art and History
  • Sears Automotive (Art Deco)
  • Town Clock Church (1852, Greek Revival): Originally the Second Presbyterian Church and served the Underground Railroad, it is now the Second Baptist Church.
  • Woolworth Building (1910, Chicago Commercial): Site of the chain's first luncheonette.
  • It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

    References

    New Albany Downtown Historic District (Indiana) Wikipedia