Independence Historic District (Evansville, Indiana)

	Independence Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Independence Historic District, July 2011
Location	W. Franklin St. and Wabash Ave., Evansville, Indiana
Coordinates	37°57′51″N 87°33′27″W / 37.96417°N 87.55750°W
Area	33 acres (13 ha)
Built	1880
Architectural style	Italianate, Romanesque, Beaux Arts
NRHP reference No.	82000102
Added to NRHP	February 1, 1982

LocationW. Franklin St. and Wabash Ave., Evansville, Indiana

Coordinates37°57′51″N 87°33′27″W / 37.96417°N 87.55750°W

Area33 acres (13 ha)

Built1880

Independence Historic District, also known as the West Franklin Street-Wabash Avenue Historic District, is a national historic district located in the Lamasco neighborhood of Evansville, Indiana. The district developed after 1880, and encompasses 95 contributing buildings and one contributing site. It includes commercial and residential properties and representative examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Beaux-Arts style architecture. Notable buildings include the West Branch Carnegie Library (1912), Laval Block, Heldt-Voelker Hardware Store (1890), First Federal Savings, Gerke Building, August Rosenberger House (1894), and St. Boniface Church (1882, 1902).^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

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