National Register of Historic Places
Liberty Residential Historic District
Liberty, Union County, Indiana
The record
- Listed
- December 31, 2013
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- 28, 103-403 E. Union, 4-8 W. Seminary, 2-124 E. Seminary & 1-7 S. Fairground Sts., 2 & 102 College Corner Ave., Liberty
- County
- Union
- State
- Indiana
- Contributing resources
- 67 buildings
- Coordinates
- 39.62345, -84.92612
- Reference number
- 13001017
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The story
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Liberty Residential Historic District is a district of 28.85 acres in Liberty, Union County, listed in the National Register in 2013. Its 67 contributing buildings range across styles including American Foursquare, Craftsman/Bungalow, Queen Anne, Italianate, Greek Revival, Romanesque Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival and Ranch.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in community planning and development and in architecture. Its period of significance runs from 1841, when the Union County Seminary was built, to around 1920.
Physical character
Foundations are stone, brick or concrete; walls are brick, stucco, weatherboard, shingle or vinyl siding; roofs are composite shingle, metal or tile. Many houses have wraparound porches on Doric columns and bay windows, while institutional buildings show a three-story bell tower, arched stained-glass windows with limestone hoods, and half-timbered stucco gables. Later additions include a 1975 police station, a 1975 fire-station addition to the north, and a 2003 addition to the library's east side.
Historical context
The Liberty-College Corner Turnpike was built in 1848, and rail service reached Liberty in 1860. A fire destroyed many downtown buildings in 1876, and the Union County Courthouse went up in 1890. The town's library, tied to Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie library program, was built about 1915. The first public school on the site was built in 1866; an eight-room brick school followed in 1875, and a second brick school of 1908 was razed in 1923.