The East Grove Street District is a residential

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 on the 400 through 700 blocks of East Grove Street in Bloomington,

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. The district includes 43 houses and apartment buildings, 25 of which are considered

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s. The houses in the district were built between 1855 and 1915 for many of Bloomington's upper middle class residents. Due to a building boom between 1880 and 1900, the then-popular Queen Anne style is the most prevalent in the district. Other popular architectural styles in the district include

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 ...

homes from the 1850s,

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 ...

homes built between 1860 and 1880, and

Arts and Crafts A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by one’s hand or by using only simple, non-automated re ...

homes built in the 1900s. The district was added to the

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on February 26, 1987.

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{{National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places in McLean County, Illinois Buildings and structures in Bloomington–Normal Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Houses in McLean County, Illinois