Lebanon Historic Commercial District (Lebanon, Kentucky)

Lebanon Historic Commercial District
Downtown Lebanon
Location Main St. roughly between Proctor Knott and Spalding Aves., Lebanon, Kentucky
Coordinates 37°34′10″N 85°15′10″W / 37.56944°N 85.25278°W / 37.56944; -85.25278 (Lebanon Historic Commercial District)Coordinates: 37°34′10″N 85°15′10″W / 37.56944°N 85.25278°W / 37.56944; -85.25278 (Lebanon Historic Commercial District)
Area 7 acres (2.8 ha)
Built 1850 (1850)
Architectural style Classical Revival, Art Deco, Italianate
NRHP reference # 87000857[1]
Added to NRHP November 10, 1987

The Lebanon Historic Commercial District in Lebanon, Kentucky is a 7 acres (2.8 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It included 32 contributing buildings.[1]

It includes:

  • Marion County Courthouse (1935), a Classical Revival courthouse designed by architect Thomas Nolen, a Works Progress Administration project
  • a U.S. post office designed by James Knox Taylor,
  • the City Hall (1876)
  • Arista Theater (c.1935), an Art Deco theatre
  • "the important and rare mid-nineteenth century Court Square, a grouping of one-and two-story, mid-nineteenth to early twentieth-century professional offices

surrounding the courthouse and forming an indentation in the south side of Main Street."[2]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2013-11-02). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Gibson Worsham; Charlotte Worsham (January 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lebanon Historic Commercial District". National Park Service. Retrieved May 3, 2018. With accompanying 46 photos from 1986-87
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