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Historic district in Frankfort, Kentucky

United States historic place
Central Frankfort Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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LocationBounded by East and West 2nd St., Logan St., the Kentucky River, High St., and Mero St., Frankfort, Kentucky
Coordinates38°11′44″N 84°52′34″W / 38.1956°N 84.8761°W / 38.1956; -84.8761
Area126 acres (51 ha)
Built1795
Architectural styleFederal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.09000570
Added to NRHPJuly 28, 2009

The Central Frankfort Historic District in Frankfort, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

The district includes 401 resources (buildings, structures, objects, sites) on 126 acres (51 ha). It is roughly bounded by East and West 2nd St., Logan St., the Kentucky River, High St., and Mero St.

The district was created to merge and expand upon previously listed historic resources. It includes all of:

It also includes portions of Second Street and Shelby Street within the South Frankfort Neighborhood Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1982, which contains the current Kentucky State Capitol, Governor's Mansion, and surrounding residential area. It additionally includes and recognizes properties, in and outside of the previously listed areas, of later periods of significance than previously recognized.

The district thus created constitutes a "well-defined evolutionary district which portrays development in Frankfort from the 1790s into the 1960s."

When listed, its 401 resources included 241 resources previously listed, plus 78 new contributing buildings, a new contributing site, four new contributing structures, two new contributing objects, and 24 new non-contributing resources, all in a 126 acres (51 ha) area.

It includes four properties documented in the Historic American Buildings Survey during 1937-1940:

The district was deemed significant "on a statewide basis as a strong concentration of primarily residential and commercial historic resources built largely on a late-eighteenth-century grid of streets encompassing historic state governmental buildings, representative of the cultural patterns of governance, commerce, and community planning, and containing the homes of a series of individuals of transcendent importance to the locale, state, and nation."

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ Taylor, David L. (February 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Central Frankfort Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved June 14, 2023. Includes maps, and 25 photos from 2008.

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