Wabash Valley Motor Company | |
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location | 206-208 SE 8th St., Evansville, Indiana |
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| Coordinates | 37°58′19″N87°33′54″W / 37.97194°N 87.56500°W Coordinates: 37°58′19″N87°33′54″W / 37.97194°N 87.56500°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1919 |
| Architectural style | Chicago |
| MPS | Downtown Evansville MRA |
| NRHP reference # | 82000126 [1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | July 1, 1982 |
| Removed from NRHP | June 8, 2011 [2] |
Wabash Valley Motor Company was a historic commercial building located in downtown Evansville, Indiana. It was built in 1919. It was in Chicago school style architecture. [3] :Part 1 It has been demolished.
Downtown Evansville is the central business district of Evansville, Indiana. The boundaries of downtown Evansville have changed as the city has grown, but they are generally considered to be between Canal Street at the south and east, the Lloyd Expressway to the north, Pigeon Creek to the northwest, and the Ohio River to the southeast south and southwest. Downtown Evansville is entirely within Pigeon Township.
Evansville is a city and the county seat of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. The population was 117,429 at the 2010 census, making it the state's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the largest city in Southern Indiana, and the 232nd-most populous city in the United States. It is the commercial, medical, and cultural hub of Southwestern Indiana and the Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky tri-state area, home to over 911,000 people. The 38th parallel crosses the north side of the city and is marked on Interstate 69.
Chicago's architecture is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School. Much of its early work is also known as Commercial style. In the history of architecture, the first Chicago School was a school of architects active in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century. They were among the first to promote the new technologies of steel-frame construction in commercial buildings, and developed a spatial aesthetic which co-evolved with, and then came to influence, parallel developments in European Modernism. A "Second Chicago School" with a modernist aesthetic emerged in the 1940s through 1970s, which pioneered new building technologies and structural systems such as the tube-frame structure.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and delisted in 2011. [1] [2]
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.
