West Fifth Avenue Apartments Historic District

Roughly 5th Ave. from Taft to Pierce St., Gary, Indiana. County/parish: Lake.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 17, 1984. NRIS 84001076.

41 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

West Fifth Avenue Apartments Historic District

West Fifth Avenue Apartments Historic District is a national historic district located at Gary, Indiana. The district encompasses 30 contributing buildings in a residential section of Gary. The buildings were built between 1922 and 1928, and consist of a dense group of brick apartment blocks mostly four stories tall. Architectural styles include examples of Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival, Late Gothic Revival, and Commercial style architecture.

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132003687

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