Original Newburgh Historic District

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Original Newburgh Historic District

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State and Jennings in Newburgh, July 2011
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Location Roughly bounded by IN 662, Water, Monroe, Main and Middle Sts., Newburgh, Indiana
Coordinates 37°56′40″N87°24′19″W / 37.94444°N 87.40528°W / 37.94444; -87.40528 Coordinates: 37°56′40″N87°24′19″W / 37.94444°N 87.40528°W / 37.94444; -87.40528
Area 8.8 acres (3.6 ha)
Built 1850 (1850)
Architect Multiple
Architectural style Greek Revival, Italianate, Classical Revival
NRHP reference # 83000162 [1]
Added to NRHP June 16, 1983

Original Newburgh Historic District is a national historic district located at Newburgh, Warrick County, Indiana. It encompasses 27 contributing buildings in the central business district of Newburgh. It developed between about 1850 and 1930, and includes representative examples of Italianate, Greek Revival, and Classical Revival style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Old Warrick County Jail. Other notable buildings include the Evansville, Suburban, and Newburgh Railway Depot (1912); I.O.O.F. Building; Carnegie Library (1919); and Newburgh Bank (1902, 1918). [2]

Newburgh, Indiana Town in Indiana, United States

Newburgh is a town in Ohio Township, Warrick County, Indiana, United States, located just east of Evansville, Indiana, along the Ohio River. The population was 3,325 at the 2010 census, although the town is part of the larger Evansville metropolitan area which recorded a population of 342,815, and Ohio Township, which Newburgh shares with nearby Chandler, has a population of 37,749 in the 2010 Census.

Warrick County, Indiana County in the United States

Warrick County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 59,689. The county seat is Boonville. It was organized in 1813 and was named for Captain Jacob Warrick, an Indiana militia company commander killed in the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. It is one of the ten fastest-growing counties in Indiana.

Central business district commercial and business centre of a city

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business center of a city. In larger cities, it is often synonymous with the city's "financial district". Geographically, it often coincides with the "city centre" or "downtown", but the two concepts are separate: many cities have a central business district located away from its commercial or cultural city centre or downtown.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-07-01.Note: This includes Douglas L. Stern (December 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Original Newburgh Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-07-01., Quad map, and Accompanying photographs