Newtown Historic District

Established by ordinance in 1975, Newtown is distinguished by residential reconstruction after the two severe fires in 1860 and 1886. The district contains fine Victorian architecture and a notable example of the Federal period. Poplar Hill Mansion, circa 1800, oldest ...

Middletown Township Locust Historic District

Settled circa 1715 by David Burdge of Hempstead, L.I. Significant as an early farming and fishing village, and center of local oyster trade to New York in the 19th c. Steamboats brought visitors as Locust evolved into an important estate ...

Mill Hill Historic District

Mill Hill is named because it overlooks the site of the grist mill built along the Assunpink Creek in 1679 by Mahlon Stacy, Trenton’s first settler.

On January 2, 1777, the Second Battle of Trenton was fought on the creek banks, ...

Tower House Historic District

Down this short trail, a bridge crosses Clear Creek just before the creek converges with Crystal and Mill Creeks. Prehistory and history converge here, too – on the Tower House Historic District. For more than 6000 years this area was ...

Delaware Street Historic District

Period of Significance, 1854-1910

(Rehabilitated and Partially Reconstructed in 1986. William Coburn, Historic Architectural Consultant)

In the 1850s, Gold Rush-era farmers and merchants began settling in this rural bayside area. Delaware Street connected Jacob’s Landing, a freight wharf constructed on the waterfront ...

Harding Circle Historic District

In 1923 circus magnate John N. Ringling (1866-1936) purchased St. Armands Key, an uninhabited, 150-acre, oval shaped island. He planned a community of fine residences with a central circle park surrounded by shops. The park was named in memory of ...

Seventh Avenue Depot Historic District

This district portrays a cohesive grouping of

commercial, residential and transportation

related structures typical of late 19th and early

20th century development. The first depot,

established with train service in 1879, was

replaced with the current depot, ca. 1902.

The oldest structure in the district is ...

West Salem Historic District

The West Salem Historic District recognizes West Salem's importance in the development of Salem and the growth of Winston-Salem. The neighborhood initially was settled as farms on "outlots" serving Salem during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. During the ...

Downtown Sheboygan Falls Historic District

?In 1835, upon finding these falls and their fine water power, Massachusetts pioneer and entrepreneur Silas Stedman decided to purchase the surrounding land for village and industrial development. The following year, Stedman platted the "Town of Rochester" and built the ...

Cole Historic District

The Cole Historic District, bounded by Water, Monroe, Adams and Michigan streets, is one of the few remaining historic districts in the state to display the early development of a Wisconsin community from the 1830s and 1840s. The district's two ...