National Register of Historic Places
Gosport Historic District
Gosport, Owen County, Indiana
The record
- Listed
- June 25, 2013
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- Roughly bounded by Church, Walnut, 5th & 3rd Sts., Gosport
- County
- Owen
- State
- Indiana
- Contributing resources
- 40 buildings, 4 structures, 1 site, 4 objects
- Coordinates
- 39.35091, -86.66435
- Reference number
- 13000425
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The story
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The Gosport Historic District is a district in Gosport, Owen County, with buildings in the Italianate, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Greek Revival, Classical Revival, American Foursquare, Bungalow and vernacular styles. It includes 40 contributing buildings, one contributing site, four contributing structures and four contributing objects.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C in 2013, with local-level significance in architecture and commerce. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1835 to 1952, opening with a building dated to 1835.
Physical character
Foundations range from Keokuk and St. Louis limestone to concrete block, some shaped like cobblestones, yellow rock face block and brick; roofs include cast iron, standing seam, corrugated sheet metal and asphalt. The city park has an octagonal band shell, and a front platform was added in 1942; turned limestone planters and a pyramidal, bellcast-eaved roof appear elsewhere in the district.
Historical context
Gosport was platted in 1829, incorporated in 1865, with curing, packing and shipping pork as its chief industry from 1830 to 1855, and by 1890 an industrial district of mills and factories. Two railroads reached town in 1853 and 1869, and the Monon Railroad's station stood until it was torn down in 1976, after passenger service ended in 1945. The town's fortunes turned down in the 1920s, and a State Road 67 bypass was built between 1929 and 1936; fire struck its commercial core in 1946 and 1970.