Indiana's Tower Tree City and Historic Courthouse Square

The Greensburg Downtown Historic District forms the historic commercial, political, and social core of Greensburg, Indiana, centered on the courthouse square and the surrounding blocks of Washington, Broadway, Main, and Franklin Streets. The district preserves a compact concentration of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century architecture — including Italianate, Queen Anne, Victorian, and Classical Revival storefronts — anchored by the landmark Romanesque Revival courthouse, famous for the tree growing from its tower. With seventy contributing resources reflecting the city's development from 1854 to 1945, the district retains the character of a county-seat downtown shaped by commerce, civic life, fraternal organizations, and transportation links that connected Greensburg to the wider region. - AsNotedIn