Liberty 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

Liberty Liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege). It is a synonym for the word freedom. In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...

Union County, Indiana Union County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 7,087. The county seat is Liberty. Since 2018, Union County has been included in the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan St ...

. The district encompasses 20 contributing buildings and 2 contributing objects in the

central business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...

of Liberty and centered on the separately listed Union County Courthouse. It developed between about 1854 and 1938 and includes representative 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 ...

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

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

style architecture. Notable contributing buildings include the O'Toole Building (1936), Masonic Hall (c. 1860), Odd Fellows Building (c. 1854), Liberty Opera House (c. 1878), and Liberty Post Office (1937-1938). ''Note:'' This includes
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National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2013.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Italianate architecture in Indiana Romanesque Revival architecture in Indiana Neoclassical architecture in Indiana Art Deco architecture in Indiana Historic districts in Union County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Indiana Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana {{UnionCountyIN-NRHP-stub

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