The Belleville Historic District is a historic district in Belleville,

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. The primarily residential district consists of an irregularly shaped area on the east side of Belleville. 70 buildings are included in the district, all of which are

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s to its historic character. The homes in the district represent Belleville's residential development from 1830 to 1900. Many of the houses were designed in a vernacular cottage style popular among the city's German immigrants; while common in Belleville and other

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cities, the style is little seen elsewhere in the state. Formal architectural styles such as

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

and

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

are also prevalent in the district. The district was added to the

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on November 7, 1976.

Homes of Historic Interest within the Belleville Historic District

Champion House - 218 S Charles St Belleville, IL - https://champion.house/ Koerner House - 200 Abend St Belleville, IL - https://gustavekoerner.org/

References

Metro East Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Belleville, Illinois National Register of Historic Places in St. Clair County, Illinois Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Houses in St. Clair County, Illinois {{StClairCountyIL-geo-stub