Covington Residential Historic District
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Covington Residential 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 109 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Covington. It developed between about 1830 and 1958, 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 ...
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Federal Federal or foederal (archaic) may refer to: Politics General *Federal monarchy, a federation of monarchies *Federation, or ''Federal state'' (federal system), a type of government characterized by both a central (federal) government and states or ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
, Queen Anne, and
Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...
style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Carnegie Library of Covington,
Fountain County Clerk's Building Fountain County Clerk's Building, also known as the Lew Wallace Law Office, is a historic government office building located at Covington, Fountain County, Indiana. It was built in 1842, and is a one-story, double pile, Federal style red brick bui ...
, and William C.B. Sewell House. Other notable contributing buildings include the Senator Daniel W. Voorhees House (c. 1880), Ward House (c. 1890), Kid & Mary DeHaven House (1880), Bisland House (1910), Spinning House (c. 1898), Mayer House (1907), Johnson House (c. 1915), Ristine-Savage House (1852), J. D. Fine Boggs House (1923-1924, Livengood House (c. 1930), Enos H. Nebeker House (1894), Hamilton-Reed House (c. 1835, 1886), Covington Methodist Church (1889), Clark House (c. 1865), and Allen-Cates House (c. 1870). ''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 Federal architecture in Indiana Gothic Revival architecture in Indiana Greek Revival architecture in Indiana Italianate architecture in Indiana Queen Anne architecture in Indiana Colonial Revival architecture in Indiana Houses in Fountain County, Indiana Historic districts in Fountain County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Fountain County, Indiana {{FountainCountyIN-NRHP-stub