The Kingman Commercial Historic District 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 ...

along the 300 and 400 blocks of Andy Devine Ave. in

Kingman, Arizona Kingman is a city in, and the county seat of, Mohave County, Arizona, United States. It is named after Lewis Kingman, an engineer for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. It is located southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, and northwest of Arizona's ...

. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It includes seven contributing properties; it includes Moderne, Queen Anne, and

Mission/Spanish Revival In the United States, the National Register of Historic Places classifies its listings by various types of architecture. Listed properties often are given one or more of 40 standard architectural style classifications that appear in the National ...

designed by W. Royal Lescher and others. The district includes the Beale Hotel, the Brunswick Hotel, the 1906 Lovin Building, an AT&SF railroad depot, the Luthy Block building, and an

archeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and ...

. The Luthy Block was originally a "simple adobe building" but was expanded in 1908 with brick and was remodeled with

Mission Revival The Mission Revival style was part of an architectural movement, beginning in the late 19th century, for the revival and reinterpretation of American colonial styles. Mission Revival drew inspiration from the late 18th and early 19th century ...

parapets; these parapets were updated in c.1935 to Moderne motifs. and

Gallery

File:Luthy Block-Watkins Drug.png, Luthy Block-Watkins Drug, 2022 File:Old Trails Garage.jpg, Old Trails Garage, 2022 File:Brunswick Hotel.jpg, Brunswick Hotel, 2022 File:AT&SF Depot.png, AT&SF Depot, 2022 File:Beale Hotel, 2022.jpg, Beale Hotel, 2022

References

{{National Register of Historic Places Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona Queen Anne architecture in Arizona Mission Revival architecture in Arizona Streamline Moderne architecture in the United States Geography of Mohave County, Arizona Buildings and structures in Kingman, Arizona National Register of Historic Places in Kingman, Arizona