Middlesboro Downtown Commercial District

Roughly Bounded by Cumberland Ave., 19th, 20th Sts., and Edgewood Rd., Middlesboro, Kentucky. County/parish: Bell.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 10, 1983. NRIS 83002554.

61 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

Middlesboro Downtown Commercial District

The Middlesboro Downtown Commercial District in Middlesboro, Kentucky is a 37 acres (15 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

It is roughly bounded by Cumberland Ave., 19th Street, 20th Street, and Edgewood Road. It included 61 contributing buildings, including a post office.

It includes the original downtown core.

Contributing buildings include:

• Old City Hall
• the Coal House, "now the Chamber of Commerce, which is built entirely of coal"(!)
• the United States Post Office (1915), Classical Revival in style
• the old Carnegie Library, a one-story classical masonry structure
• the First Presbyterian Church, built in 1889 and expanded in 1912.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123849284

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