Jefferson Street 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

Gary, Indiana Gary ( ) is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 69,093 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it Indiana's List of municipalities in Indiana, eleventh-most populous city. The city has been historical ...

. The district encompasses 81 contributing buildings in an exclusively residential section of Gary. They were largely built between 1922 and 1945, and many reflect the American Small House Movement. Architectural styles include examples of

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 arch ...

Tudor Revival Tudor Revival architecture, also known as mock Tudor in the UK, first manifested in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture, in rea ...

, Late Gothic Revival,

Spanish Colonial Revival The Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (), often known simply as Spanish Revival, is a term used to encompass a number of revivalist architectural styles based in both Spanish colonial architecture and Spanish architecture in general. Thes ...

, 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. ...

architecture. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

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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 Colonial Revival architecture in Indiana Tudor Revival architecture in Indiana Gothic Revival architecture in Indiana Mission Revival architecture in Indiana Historic districts in Gary, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Gary, Indiana {{LakeCountyIN-NRHP-stub