Paoli 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 Paoli,

Orange County, Indiana Orange County is located in Southern Indiana, Southern Indiana in the United States. As of 2020, its population was 19,867. The county seat is Paoli, Indiana, Paoli. The County (United States), county has four municipal corporation, incorporate ...

. The district encompasses 144 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 4 contributing structures, and 4 contributing objects 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 Paoli. It developed between about 1840 and 1940, and includes notable 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 Queen Anne style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Thomas Newby Braxtan House and Orange County Courthouse. Other notable contributing resources include Lithia Springs Park, Dr. J.H. Sherrod House (1885), Gabbert House (c. 1870), Lithia Water Bottling Plant (1920), Orange County Jail (1858), U.S. Post Office (1937), Presbyterian Church (1920), Methodist Episcopal Church (1888), Braxtan Store (late 1890s), Riley Building (1887), Paoli State Bank (1912), and Thomas Volney Thornton House (1846). ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. It was listed on the

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in 1994.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Queen Anne architecture in Indiana Italianate architecture in Indiana Greek Revival architecture in Indiana Historic districts in Orange County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, Indiana {{OrangeCountyIN-NRHP-stub