Lucas County Courthouse Square Historic District Chariton, Iowa
National Register of Historic Places Data
The Lucas County Courthouse Square Historic District has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000324
- Date Listed
- August 11, 2014
- Name
- Lucas County Courthouse Square Historic District
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- Braden Ct., Grand & Main Sts. around the Public Sq.
- City/Town
- Chariton
- County
- Lucas
- State
- Iowa
- Category
- district
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- POLITICS/GOVERNMENT; COMMERCE; ARCHITECTURE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Lucas County Courthouse Square Historic District has local Criterion A significance as sixty of the seventy-six resources within the district speak directly to the impact of being the Lucas County seat on commercial development between the years 1867 and 1963. These buildings house the vital goods, services and amenities needed in a growing community. Public buildings found primarily in county seat towns account for four of the resources (courthouse, sheriff's residence & jail, public library, and US Post Office). The changes brought about by the automobile are represented by auto dealerships along the edge of the business district. The district has local Criterion C significance as a good collection of commercial buildings representative of the types, styles and building materials commonly used between 1867 and 1963, and demonstrates the evolution of building types during this period. The period of significance begins with the construction of the oldest extant buildings in the district, the Stanton and Palmer buildings from 1867, and ends with the redesign of traffic and parking around the Square in 1963.
