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Downtown Florence Historic District

  • Also Known As: 5FN1693
  • Also Known As: CDOT No. K-16-S
  • Address: along Main St and Front St
  • Vicinity: Roughly bounded by Main St, Santa Fe and Petroleum Aves between W 2nd and Railroad Sts
  • Type: Historic District
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1894/00/00 Julius McCandless Hardware, 124 W Main St, Two-story brick commercial building with flat roof. The walls are composed of tan brick with orange brick used as contrasting ornament.
1894/00/00 The Lovell Block at 132 W Main Street is a 2-story brick commercial building in the 19C Commercial style. The south facade has a single storefront, a center entrance with a varnished, paneled and glazed door and 2nd entrance with paneled door at east end.
1894/00/00 Built between 1890 and 1895, 106 W Main St housed drugstores during much of its history. City Drug ads in the Florence Refiner describe the store as a "headquarters for everything carried by a first-class drug establishment."
1894/00/00 Carmody Block, 122 W Main St, built c 1894. In 1923, Florence Recreation "bowling parlor" was located at this address. Managed by L N Gandy, the Recreation also offered a soda fountain, Gandy's jewelry, as well as candy, cigars and cigarettes.
1895/00/00 Hutton House, 205 W Main St, is a two-story, cross-gabled Late Victorian house has overhanging eaves and orange brick walls, built 1890-1895.
1895/00/00 Paxton Office, 113 N Santa Fe Ave, is a two-story red brick Romanesque Revival building constructed of white stone and light orange brick with wood brackets on a raised rock-faced stone foundation.
1896/00/00 First Presbyterian Church, 201 W 2nd St. Gothic Revival style, orange-red brick church with white stone trim and a front gabled roof with composition roofing shingles and overhanging eaves.

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Particulars for Downtown Florence Historic District:
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Commerce
Category for Historic Use Government
Sight Category Historic District
Humanity Social Interaction
Area of Significance Transportation



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 100001309
Resource Type:
CULTURAL DETAILS
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