Lebanon Historic Commercial District

Main St. roughly between Proctor Knott and Spalding Aves., Lebanon, Kentucky. County/parish: Marion.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 10, 1987. NRIS 87000857.

32 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

Lebanon Historic Commercial District (Lebanon, Kentucky)

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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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123851235