Gary City Center Historic District

Roughly, Broadway from the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend RR tracks to 9th Ave., Gary, Indiana. County/parish: Lake.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 25, 1994. NRIS 94001352.

60 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites.

Also known as:

  • See Also:Gary Land Company Building

From Wikipedia:

Gary City Center Historic District

Gary City Center Historic District is a national historic district located at Gary, Indiana. The district encompasses 60 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites in Downtown Gary. It developed between about 1906 and 1944 includes notable examples of Tudor Revival, Late Gothic Revival, and Classical Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the City Hall and Superior Courthouse (1927), the second Gary Land Company Building (c. 1907), Olympic Hotel (c. 1928, demolished), the "Modern Apartments" (c. 1929), Dalton Apartments (c. 1929), Gary State Bank Building (1929), Hotel Gary (1926), City Methodist Church (1926, ruined), YWCA Building (1922), and former U.S. Post Office Building (1936).

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132003615

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