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Walnut Street Historic District (Springfield, Missouri)

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Built
  
1870

Area
  
32 ha

Opened
  
1870

Walnut Street Historic District (Springfield, Missouri)

Location
  
Roughly bounded by McDaniel, Walnut, and Elm Sts. and the Sherman Parkway; also roughly along E. Walnut St. in the 700 and 800 blocks, Springfield, Missouri

NRHP Reference #
  
85000623, 02000833 (Boundary Increase)

Added to NRHP
  
March 21, 1985, October 19, 2001 (Boundary Decrease), August 5, 2002 (Boundary Increase)

Architectural styles
  
American Craftsman, American Queen Anne style

Similar
  
Jordan Valley Park, Hammons Field, Jefferson Avenue Footbridge, Stone Chapel, Springfield National Cemetery

The Walnut Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. The district encompasses more than 150 one and two story frame, brick, cast-stone, or stone dwellings in a thirteen block area. The district includes parts of East Walnut Street, East Elm Street and East McDaniel Street, Cordova Court, and South Hampton Avenue, South Florence Avenue and South National Avenue. The district developed between about 1870 and 1940, with 21 buildings surviving from before 1900, and 59 buildings dating between 1901 and 1910.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, with a boundary decrease in 2001 and boundary increase in 2002.

References

Walnut Street Historic District (Springfield, Missouri) Wikipedia