Covington Courthouse Square 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 Covington,

Fountain County, Indiana Fountain County lies in the western part of the U.S. state of Indiana on the east side of the Wabash River. The county was officially established in 1826 and was the 53rd in Indiana. The county seat is Covington. According to the 2000 United ...

. The district encompasses 23 contributing buildings in the

central business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...

of Covington. It developed between about 1856 and 1956, and includes notable examples of

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

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 ...

Romanesque Revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...

Classical Revival Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...

, 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

Fountain County Courthouse Fountain County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Covington, Fountain County, Indiana. It was built in 1937 as a Public Works Administration project. History Fountain County Courthouse was designed by Louis Johnson, and completed ...

. Other notable contributing buildings include the Loeb Building (c. 1870), Old Covington City Building (1903, 1915), First National Bank (1913), Knights of Pythias Building (1894), and Covington Post Office (1956). ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs
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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 2015.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Gothic Revival architecture in Indiana Romanesque Revival architecture in Indiana Italianate architecture in Indiana Neoclassical architecture in Indiana Art Deco architecture in Indiana Historic districts in Fountain County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Fountain County, Indiana Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana {{FountainCountyIN-NRHP-stub