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Richmond Downtown Historic District

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Architectural style
  
Mixed

Area
  
5 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
11000918

Added to NRHP
  
19 December 2011

Richmond Downtown Historic District

Location
  
Roughly Main St. between 7th & 10th Sts. & N. 8th St. between Main & A Sts. in Richmond, Indiana

Architect
  
Multiple, including John A. Hasecoster, George F. Barber, James Knox Taylor, Harry Hussey

The Richmond Downtown Historic District is an area of primarily commercial buildings and national historic district located at Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. The district encompasses 47 contributing buildings located along the National Road. It developed between about 1868 and 1960 and includes representative examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne, Classical Revival, and Chicago School style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Murray Theater. Other notable buildings include the I.O.O.F. Building (1868), Hittle Building (1878), Tivoli Theater (1926), Romey's Building (1920), George H. Knollenberg Building (1877), Kresge Building (c. 1930), Dickinson Building (1880), former U.S. Post Office (1905), and YMCA (1908).

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

References

Richmond Downtown Historic District Wikipedia