Star Route & Palouse St. Brick Road Pullman, Washington
National Register of Historic Places Data
Star Route & Palouse St. Brick Road 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 14000168
- Date Listed
- April 15, 2014
- Name
- Star Route and Palouse Street Brick Road
- Other Names
- Maple Street & Palouse Street
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- Part of Maple & Palouse Sts.
- City/Town
- Pullman
- County
- Whitman
- State
- Washington
- Category
- structure
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION; ENGINEERING
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 Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.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 vitrified brick paving of the Star Route & Palouse St. Brick Road in Pullman, Washington is historically significant under criteria A as a resource that relates directly to the ?Good Roads? movement that swept over many communities in Washington State and nationwide in the first decades of the twentieth century. The brick paved sections of streets are an excellent example of how community and business leaders physically transformed their desire to create an attractive and durable all-weather road to Washington State College (WSC), and thus build a ?town and gown? connection between the downtown core and WSC campus. The period of significance begins and ends in 1913, the date of construction of the nominated road section.
