Huntington 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 Huntington,

Huntington County, Indiana Huntington County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. According to the 2020 United States Census, the population was 36,662. The county seat (and only city) is Huntington. Huntington County comprises the Huntington, Indiana micropolitan ...

. The district includes 102 contributing buildings and 3 contributing structures in the

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of Huntington. It developed between about 1845 and 1942 and includes notable examples of

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 style architecture in the United States Queen Anne style architecture was one of a number of popular Victorian architectural styles that emerged in the United States during the period from roughly 1880 to 1910. Popular there during this time, it followed the Second Empire and Stick s ...

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 ...

, Neoclassical, and

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style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Moore/Carlew Building and Hotel LaFontaine. Other notable buildings include the Hotel Huntington (1848), Opera House (1881), Lewis Block, Huntington County Courthouse (1904), old Post Office (1916), Citizens' State Bank (), City Hall / Fire Station (1904), Huntington Light and Fuel Building,

Our Sunday Visitor Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) is a Catholic publishing company in Huntington, Indiana, which prints the American national weekly newspaper of that name, as well as numerous Catholic periodicals, religious books, pamphlets, catechetical materials, i ...

building (1926), YMCA (1929), and Huntington Theater (1904, 1940). ''Note:'' This includes
site map
and Accompanying photographs. It was listed on the

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in 1992.

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County courthouses in Indiana Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Italianate architecture in Indiana Queen Anne architecture in Indiana Romanesque Revival architecture in Indiana Neoclassical architecture in Indiana Government buildings completed in 1904 Historic districts in Huntington County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Huntington County, Indiana {{HuntingtonCountyIN-NRHP-stub