| Gillette Downtown Historic District | |
| Location: | Downtown, Gillette, Wyoming |
| Coordinates: | 44.2912°N -105.504°W |
| Built: | 1934 |
| Added: | January 3, 2023 |
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Gillette Downtown Historic District is in Downtown Gillette, Wyoming in Campbell County, Wyoming. Gillette was founded in 1891 in northeastern Wyoming. Gillette founded as a railroad town after the arrival of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Gillette became the county seat of Campbell County after Crook and Weston counties merged in 1911. The Black and Yellow Trail an early highway came through Gillette. The highway ran from Chicago, Illinois to Yellowstone National Park. Gillette Downtown Historic District has many different architectural styles including: late Victorian Italianate commercial buildings, residential Victorian architecture with Queen Anne elements, and Classical Revival, Neo-Classical/Starved Classicism, Art Deco, and early-to-mid twentieth-century public and commercial architecture. In 1914 at Montgomery Bar outlaw Ray Montgomery beat up mayor Mark Shields to take over as mayor. The center of the Historic District is the former City Hall. Gillette Downtown Historic District covers six-blocks in the central business district. There are 30 properties built between 1898 and 1971 in the Gillette Downtown Historic District.[2] [3] [1]
In the Gillette Downtown Historic District are:[1]
