Dayton 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

Dayton, Indiana Dayton is a town in Sheffield Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Sheffield Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 1,420 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 census. It is par ...

Tippecanoe County, Indiana Tippecanoe County ( ) is a county located in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Indiana about east of the Illinois state line, less than from the Indianapolis metro area, and from Chicago. As of the 2020 census, the population wa ...

. The district encompasses 82 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the

central business district A central business district (CBD) is the Commerce, commercial and business center of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides wit ...

and surrounding residential sections of Dayton. It developed between about 1830 and 1952 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 ...

, Second Empire, and

Bungalow A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is typically single or one and a half storey, if a smaller upper storey exists it is frequently set in the roof and Roof window, windows that come out from the roof, and may be surrounded by wide ve ...

American Craftsman American Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century. ...

style architecture. Notable contributing resources include the Lantz Building (1941), Reincke-Hawkins House (c. 1860), Castle Block (1894), Baker-Yost House (c. 1847), First Presbyterian Church (1899), and Gladden-Goldsbury House (c. 1878). ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs It was listed on 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 2003.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Greek Revival architecture in Indiana Italianate architecture in Indiana Second Empire architecture in Indiana Bungalow architecture in Indiana Historic districts in Tippecanoe County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Tippecanoe County, Indiana {{TippecanoeCountyIN-NRHP-stub