Edina Double Square Historic District is a national

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located at

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, Knox County, Missouri. The district encompasses 37 contributing buildings in the

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of Edina. It developed between about 1865 and 1945 and includes representative examples of Italianate and

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style architecture. Notable contributing buildings include the

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funded Knox County Courthouse (1934–1935) designed by

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, Bishoff Bakery (1891), Northern Hotel (1860s), Ennis House/Northern Hotel (c. 1865), Edina School and Gymnasium (1915–1916), D. H. Mudd Building (c. 1904), Phillip Linville Building (c. 1908, c. 1963), Tobias J. Lycan Building (c. 1891), Jacob Pugh Building (c. 1891), Albert G. Bostick Building (c. 1891), Knox County Savings Bank (c. 1891), Thomas Burk Buildings (c. 1881), Bank of Edina Building (c. 1907), Joseph F. Biggerstaff Buildings (c. 1881), Stablein Building (c. 1870), and Knox County Public Library (c. 1915). (includes 15 photographs from 1997) an
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in 1999, with a boundary increase in 2002.

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* Public Works Administration in Missouri Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Italianate architecture in Missouri Modernist architecture in Missouri Buildings and structures in Knox County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Knox County, Missouri {{KnoxCountyMO-NRHP-stub