Broadway Commercial Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located at

Cape Girardeau Cape Girardeau ( , french: Cap-Girardeau ; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. At the 2020 census, the population was 39,540. The city is one of two principal citie ...

Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Cape Girardeau County is located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri; its eastern border is formed by the Mississippi River. At the 2020 census, the population was 81,710. The county seat is Jackson, the first city in the US ...

. The district encompasses 35

contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly commercial section of Cape Girardeau. It developed between about 1868 and 1965, and includes representative examples of Queen Anne,

Mission Revival The Mission Revival style was part of an architectural movement, beginning in the late 19th century, for the revival and reinterpretation of American colonial styles. Mission Revival drew inspiration from the late 18th and early 19th century ...

, and

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Julius Vasterling Building, the Esquire Theater, and the

Broadway Theater Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, American and British English spelling differences), 130 of the List of ...

. Other notable buildings include the Star Service Station (1965), Phil C. Haman Drug Store (1927), Haman's Shoe Store (1910), Finney's Drug Store (c. 1906), Broadway Prescription Shop (c. 1930), Kroger Super Market (1948), Kroger Super Market Parking Lot (1948), Pete Koch's Sinclair Service Station (1954-1955), Bell Telephone Company (1963), American Legion Building (1920-1923), and Vandeven Mercantile (c. 1879). It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2016.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Mission Revival architecture in Missouri Queen Anne architecture in Missouri Art Deco architecture in Missouri Historic districts in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri {{CapeGirardeauCountyMO-NRHP-stub