The Elizabethtown Courthouse Square and Commercial District, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, is a

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 ...

which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The listing included 38

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. It includes the Hardin County Courthouse, built in 1933 in Georgian Revival style. The

courthouse A courthouse or court house is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities. The term is common in North America. In most other English-spe ...

has a three-story brick central section with a slightly projecting entrance pavilion, which has a shallow

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

. The courthouse replaced an 1873 courthouse which was damaged in 1932 by a fire. The district is located on Kentucky Route 61. It consists of the courthouse square and one block of West Dixie street west of the courthouse, containing the surviving historic core of the city. It consists of two- and three-story brick buildings, 38 out of 40 being deemed contributing. With

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National Register of Historic Places in Hardin County, Kentucky Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky Italianate architecture in Kentucky Elizabethtown, Kentucky {{HardinCountyKY-NRHP-stub