Welborn 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

Mount Vernon Mount Vernon is an American landmark and former plantation of Founding Father, commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States George Washington and his wife, Martha. The estate is on ...

Posey County, Indiana Posey County is the southernmost, southwesternmost, and westernmost county in the U.S. state of Indiana. Its southern border is formed by the Ohio River, and its western border by the Wabash River, a tributary to the Ohio. As of 2010, the popula ...

. The district encompasses 154 contributing buildings and 5 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Mount Vernon laid out by Jesse Welborn between 1822 and 1826. It developed between about 1840 and 1942, and includes notable examples of

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

, and

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 ...

style architecture. Notable contributing buildings include the Gov.

Alvin P. Hovey Alvin Peterson Hovey (September 6, 1821 – November 23, 1891) was a Union (American Civil War), Union general during the American Civil War, an Indiana Supreme Court justice, congressman, and the List of governors of Indiana, 21st governor of I ...

House (c. 1847, 1871), Edward Sullivan House (1860), C.P. Klein House Johnson-Rosenbaum House (1905), St. Matthew's Catholic Church (1880), First Presbyterian Church (1872), Trinity Evangelical Church (1883), St. John's Episcopal Church (1892), Mount Vernon Post Office (1931). ''Note:'' This includes an
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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 v ...

in 1992.

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Mount Vernon, Indiana Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Greek Revival architecture in Indiana Gothic Revival architecture in Indiana Romanesque Revival architecture in Indiana Italianate architecture in Indiana Colonial Revival architecture in Indiana Historic districts in Posey County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Posey County, Indiana {{PoseyCountyIN-NRHP-stub