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Villa North Historic District is a national historic district located at Bluffton,
Wells County, Indiana Wells County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 28,180. The county seat (and only incorporated city) is Bluffton. Wells County is included in the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Statistic ...
. The district encompasses 24 contributing buildings in an exclusively residential section of Bluffton. It developed between about 1891 and 1915 and includes representative examples of Queen Anne,
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 archit ...
, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Notable contributing houses include the Lent Williamson Residence (Longfields, 1891), Amos King Residence (1894), Peter Beeler Residence (1899), and Wiley Messick Residence (c. 1915). ''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 ...
in 1985.


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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Queen Anne architecture in Indiana Colonial Revival architecture in Indiana Bungalow architecture in Indiana Buildings and structures in Wells County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Wells County, Indiana {{WellsCountyIN-NRHP-stub