Shelbyville Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Shelbyville,

Shelby County, Indiana Shelby County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 44,436. The county seat (and only incorporated city) is Shelbyville. History After the American Revolutionary War established US sov ...

. The district encompasses 149 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing objects in the central business district of Shelbyville. It developed between about 1822 and the 1930s, 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 ...

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 ...

, Beaux-Arts,

Classical Revival Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...

, 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 resources include the Shelbyville Central Schools Administrative Offices (1912), Carnegie Library (1902), First Baptist Church (1903), St. Joseph Catholic Church and School (1908), Civic Center (1932), Melton Jewelry Store (1886), Blessing-Deprez Building (1869), Knights of Pythias (1901), Cherry Building (1889), I.O.O.F. Building (1895), Old High School Building (1886), and a statue of Charles Major (1929). ''Note:'' This includes
site map
and Accompanying photographs It was listed on the

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 ...

in 1984.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Italianate architecture in Indiana Second Empire architecture in Indiana Beaux-Arts architecture in Indiana Neoclassical architecture in Indiana Art Deco architecture in Indiana Buildings and structures in Shelby County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Shelby County, Indiana {{ShelbyCountyIN-NRHP-stub