Portland Commercial Historic District

	Portland Commercial Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Meridian and Main in Portland, January 2012
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Location	Roughly, Meridian St. from Arch St. to the S. Meridian St. Bridge, and Main and Walnut Sts. from Ship to Court Sts., Portland, Indiana
Coordinates	40°26′00″N 84°58′49″W / 40.43333°N 84.98028°WCoordinates: 40°26′00″N 84°58′49″W / 40.43333°N 84.98028°W
Area	32 acres (13 ha)
Architect	McLaughlin & Hulsken; Wenderoth, Oscar
Architectural style	Italianate, Romanesque, Neoclassical, Early Commercial
NRHP reference No.	96000600
Added to NRHP	May 30, 1996

Portland Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Portland, Jay County, Indiana. It encompasses 58 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Portland. The district developed between about 1870 and 1945, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Classical Revival, and Early Commercial style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Jay County Courthouse. Other notable contributing resources include the U.S. Post Office (1914) designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Oscar Wenderoth, Portland Fire Station #1 (1929), Citizens Bank (c. 1875, 1912), FOE Eagles Lodge (1883), Johnson Building (c. 1900), Stevens Building (1910), Walnut Street Church of Christ (1913), and South Meridian Street Bridge (1914).^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-04-01. Note: This includes Jane R. Nolan (November 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Portland Commercial Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01., Site Map, and Accompanying photographs.

External links[]

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. IN-93, "Meridian Street Bridge, Spanning Salamonie River at State Road 27, Portland, Jay County, IN", 20 photos, 8 data pages

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[SHAARD-2] "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-04-01. Note: This includes Jane R. Nolan (November 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Portland Commercial Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01., Site Map, and Accompanying photographs.

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