Centerville Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

located at Centerville,

Wayne County, Indiana Wayne County is a county located in east central Indiana, United States, on the border with Ohio. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 66,553. The county seat is Richmond. Wayne County comprises the Richmond, Indiana Mic ...

. The district encompasses 115 contributing buildings in the

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and surrounding residential sections of Centerville. It developed between about 1817 and 1873 and includes representative examples of

Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

, and Federal style architecture. During this period it was county seat of Wayne County. Located in the district is the separately listed Oliver P. Morton House. Other notable contributing buildings include Morton's Row, Lantz' Row, Archway row, Tarkington Homestead (c. 1830), Jacob Julian House (1857), the Mansion House (1837), the Jones House (c. 1830), and the American House (1838–39). ''Note:'' This includes
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and Accompanying photographs The district was added to the

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in 1971.

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* * * * Historic American Buildings Survey in Indiana Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Italianate architecture in Indiana Greek Revival architecture in Indiana Federal architecture in Indiana Historic districts in Wayne County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Wayne County, Indiana {{WayneCountyIN-NRHP-stub