The Central Frankfort Historic District in

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was listed on the

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in 2009. The district includes 401 resources (buildings, structures, objects, sites) on . It is roughly bounded by East and West 2nd St., Logan St., the

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, High St., and Mero St. The district was created to merge and expand upon previously listed historic resources. It includes all of: * Liberty Hall (Frankfort, Kentucky), NRHP-listed in 1971, and a

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* Old Governor's Mansion, NRHP-listed in 1971 * Old Statehouse, NRHP-listed in 1971 * Old U.S. Court House & Post Office, NRHP-listed in 1974 *

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, NRHP-listed in 1971 *

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, NRHP-listed in 1980 * Frankfort Commercial Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1982 with additional documentation in 2008. It also includes portions of Second Street and Shelby Street within the South Frankfort Neighborhood Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1982, which contains the current

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, Governor's Mansion, and surrounding residential area. It additionally includes and recognizes properties, in and outside of the previously listed areas, of later periods of significance than previously recognized. The district thus created constitutes a "well-defined evolutionary district which portrays development in Frankfort from the 1790s into the 1960s." When listed, its 401 resources included 241 resources previously listed, plus 78 new

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, a new

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, four new

contributing structures 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 ...

, two new

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, and 24 new non-contributing resources, all in a area. Includes maps, and 25 photos from 2008. It includes four properties documented in the

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during 1937-1940: *

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, *

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, * Old State House, and *

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. The district was deemed significant "on a statewide basis as a strong concentration of primarily residential and commercial historic resources built largely on a late-eighteenth-century grid of streets encompassing historic state governmental buildings, representative of the cultural patterns of governance, commerce, and community planning, and containing the homes of a series of individuals of transcendent importance to the locale, state, and nation."

References

External links

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Frankfort Historic Districts Map
showing City of Frankfort's local historic districts
Frankfort Historic Walking Tour
* National Register of Historic Places in Frankfort, Kentucky Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky {{FranklinCountyKY-NRHP-stub