Lebanon Historic Commercial District (Lebanon, Kentucky)

United States historic place


Lebanon Historic Commercial District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Downtown Lebanon
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Location	Main St. roughly between Proctor Knott and Spalding Aves., Lebanon, Kentucky
Coordinates	37°34′10″N 85°15′10″W / 37.56944°N 85.25278°W / 37.56944; -85.25278 (Lebanon Historic Commercial District)
Area	7 acres (2.8 ha)
Built	1850 (1850)
Architect	Nolen, Thomas; Taylor, James Knox
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Art Deco, Italianate
NRHP reference No.	87000857
Added to NRHP	November 10, 1987

The Lebanon Historic Commercial District in Lebanon, Kentucky is a 7 acres (2.8 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It included 32 contributing buildings.

It includes:

Marion County Courthouse (1935), a Classical Revival courthouse designed by architect Thomas Nolen, a Works Progress Administration project
a U.S. post office designed by James Knox Taylor,
the City Hall (1876)
Arista Theater (c.1935), an Art Deco theatre
"the important and rare mid-nineteenth century Court Square, a grouping of one-and two-story, mid-nineteenth to early twentieth-century professional offices

surrounding the courthouse and forming an indentation in the south side of Main Street."

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