Speculative Commercial Blocks of Superior's Boom Period 1888--1892 TR

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The theme Speculative Commercial Blocks of Superior's Boom Period 1888-1892, was defined in order to identify and nominate all those eligible properties within the central business districts of the city of Superior which are characteristic of the expansive speculative commercial construction which occurred in the community during, its most explosive period of growth in the late nineteenth century. The resources detailed in this nomination represent a unique historical and architectural grouping of commercial buildings in the city, each a response to a single, specific developmental phase within the history of the community. Each site is representative of the incredible speculative interest and investment that would bring the small, isolated community of Superior from a strongly rural background in the mid-1800s into position as a major center of trade and commerce in the upper Midwest by the late 1880s and 1890s. This boom period investment represented a construction and developmental tide never to be matched in scale or aesthetic level again in the Lake Superior port city. - NRHP, 27 June 1985

Places

Place	Locale	Type	AsNotedIn
Washington Block	Superior		NRHP
Minnesota Block-Board of Trade Building	Superior		NRHP
Berkshire Block	Superior		NRHP
Descent Block	Superior		PRHP
Northern Block	Superior		NRHP
Empire Block	Superior		NRHP
New York Block	Superior		NRHP
Maryland Block	Superior		NRHP