Roann 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 Roann and Paw Paw Township,

Wabash County, Indiana Wabash County is a county located in the northern central part of the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2020, the population was 30,976. The county seat is Wabash. History The area was inhabited for thousands of years by cultures of indigenous pe ...

. It encompasses 117 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the

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and surrounding residential sections of Roann. It developed between about 1853 and 1961, and includes representative examples of

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

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,

Second Empire Second Empire may refer to: * Second British Empire, used by some historians to describe the British Empire after 1783 * Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396) * Second French Empire (1852–1870) ** Second Empire architecture, an architectural styl ...

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

, and

Streamline Moderne Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design ...

style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed

Roann Covered Bridge 4th Roann Covered Bridge is a historic Howe Truss covered bridge located in Paw Paw Township, Wabash County, Indiana. It was built in 1877 by the Smith Bridge Company of Toledo, Ohio and crosses the Eel River. It measures 288 feet long and i ...

Roann-Paw Paw Township Public Library Roann-Paw Paw Township Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Roann, Wabash County, Indiana. It was built in 1916, and is a one-story, rectangular, American Craftsman style brick building over a semi-recessed basemen ...

, and Thomas J. Lewis House. Other notable buildings include the First Brethren Church (1891), Dersham House and Veterinary Clinic (c. 1885), Roann Christian Church (1961), Watson House (c. 1940), Universalist Church (1875), Roann Methodist Church (1898), Paw Paw Township School (1941), James Van Buskirk House (c. 1873), Halderman Building (c. 1885), U.S. Post Office and Medical Building (1958), Nicely Oil Service Station (1938), Comer Building (1920), and Spiece House (c. 1885). ''Note:'' This includes
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and Accompanying photographs It was listed on the

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in 2013.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Gothic Revival architecture in Indiana Italianate architecture in Indiana Colonial Revival architecture in Indiana Queen Anne architecture in Indiana Second Empire architecture in Indiana Historic districts in Wabash County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Wabash County, Indiana {{WabashCountyIN-NRHP-stub