Water Avenue Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Address Restricted, Selma, Alabama. County/parish: Dallas.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 25, 2021. NRIS 05000650.

Part of Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama MPS (NRIS 64501182).

51 contributing buildings. 5 contributing sites. 1 contributing structure. 2 contributing objects.

From Wikipedia:

Water Avenue Historic District

The Water Avenue Historic District is a 10-acre (4.0 ha) historic district in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States. It is centered on Water Avenue in downtown. The boundaries were increased on July 7, 2005. The district is primarily commercial, with examples of the Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, and Renaissance Revival styles. It contains 52 properties, with 47 contributing and 5 noncontributing to the district. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 26, 1972, with boundary increases in 2005 and 2021.

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