Central Square Historic District (Lynn, Massachusetts)
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The Central Square Historic District is a
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 ...
encompassing the Central Square area of downtown
Lynn, Massachusetts Lynn is the eighth-largest List of municipalities in Massachusetts, municipality in Massachusetts, United States, and the largest city in Essex County, Massachusetts, Essex County. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Boston city line ...
. The area is at the confluence of a number of city streets, and includes buildings that border on Central Avenue, Willow Street, Munroe Street, Lake Street, Almont Street. It is a small part of Lynn's "Burned District", a large area of the downtown that was destroyed by fire in 1889. One of the first buildings built after the fire, the Bergengren Block, stands at the corner of Union Street and Central Square. It also includes the Mowers' Block, listed on the National Register in 1982. The district was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1985.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Lynn, Massachusetts This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lynn, Massachusetts. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lynn, Massachusetts, United Stat ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts This list is of that portion of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) designated in Essex County, Massachusetts, Essex County, Massachusetts. The locations of these properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordin ...


References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Historic districts in Essex County, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Lynn, Massachusetts {{EssexCountyMA-NRHP-stub