West Fifth Avenue Apartments Historic District
West Fifth Avenue Apartments Historic District | |
 West Fifth Avenue Apartments, April 2012 | |
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| Location | Roughly 5th Ave. from Taft to Pierce St., Gary, Indiana |
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| Coordinates | 41°36′06″N 87°21′29″W / 41.60167°N 87.35806°W |
| Area | 20.5 acres (8.3 ha) |
| Architect | Multiple |
| Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Chicago, The Commercial Style |
| NRHP reference No. | 84001076[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 17, 1984 |
West Fifth Avenue Apartments Historic District is a national historic district located at Gary, Indiana. The district encompasses 30 contributing buildings in a residential section of Gary. The buildings were built between 1922 and 1928, and consist of a dense group of brick apartment blocks mostly four stories tall. Architectural styles include examples of Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival, Late Gothic Revival, and Commercial style architecture.[2]
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ 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 May 1, 2016. Note: This includes Leslie A. Capek (October 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: West Fifth Avenue Apartments Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved May 1, 2016. and Accompanying photographs.
Categories:
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana
- Colonial Revival architecture in Indiana
- Gothic Revival architecture in Indiana
- Renaissance Revival architecture in Indiana
- Historic districts in Gary, Indiana
- National Register of Historic Places in Gary, Indiana
- Lake County, Indiana Registered Historic Place stubs