Central Park Historic District (Hannibal, Missouri) Explained

Central Park Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Coordinates:39.7089°N -91.36°W
Architect:Multiple
Architecture:Mid 19th Century Revival, Late Victorian
Added:October 7, 1982
Refnum:82000586

Central Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri. The district encompasses 261 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 4 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Hannibal. It developed between about 1840 and 1939, and includes representative examples of Romanesque Revival, Late Victorian, and Art Deco architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Federal Building, Hannibal Old Police Station and Jail, and Eighth and Center Streets Baptist Church. Other notable contributing resources include Central Park with a war memorial monument and a life-size bronze statue of William Henry Hatch (1833-1894), City Hall (1909), old Missouri Guaranty Building (1894), Price Apartments (1904), YMCA (1910), Masonic Temple (1882), Park Methodist Church (1881, 1906), Retards Row (1855), Elks Building (1925), Holmes Building (c. 1904), Security Building (1912), Kerchival-Iakenan-Lathrop House, Admiral Coontz Birthplace, Inmaculate Conception Chapel (1854), Episcopalian Trinity Church (1860), and William C. Henn House (1937).[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Central Park Historic District . 2017-01-01. Esley Hamilton. PDF. August 1980. Missouri Department of Natural Resources. https://web.archive.org/web/20201027224657/https://dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/82000586.pdf . 2020-10-27 . dead. (includes 34 photographs from 1980-1982)